Lotte Betts-Dean has joined Askonas Holt for worldwide management.

She will be managed at Askonas Holt by Megan Steller.

The Australian mezzo-soprano has premiered many works by contemporary composers, and recorded several composer portrait albums, including Michael Finnissy, Stuart MacRae, Catherine Lamb and Arthur Keegan. She has performed with the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Wigmore Hall, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and Kings Place London.

Betts-Dean is an alumnus of the Young Artist programs at Britten Pears Arts, City Music Foundation and Oxford Lieder, having won the 2019 Oxford Lieder Platform with frequent collaborator Joseph Havlat.

This season, the mezzo will return to Bayerische Staatsoper and will make debuts with the Ensemble MusikFabrik in Cologne, Phaedra Ensemble for Music in the Round, at Festival November Music in s’Hertogenbosch and New Music Dublin. She will also record and release a further seven albums across Delphian Records, Odradek Records and Platoon.