Verity Solo Session 1
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Tuesday, 30 Apr 2024
6:00 pm
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Verity Lane Market
Sydney Building, 50 Northbourne Ave, Canberra ACT 2601
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With Support From
Verity Solo Sessions give you forty minutes up close with the Festival’s finest musicians.
Verity Solo Session 1 – Lotte Betts-Dean, Voice Electric
The formidable voice and vocal skills of Lotte Betts-Dean plugged into 21st century technology. Music by Kaija Saariaho, Caroline Shaw, Linda Buckley and a new commissioned work by Worimi artist Nicole Smede.
“Irrepressible sense of drama and extraordinary self-assurance. Unmissable, urgent musicality..” (The Guardian)
PROGRAM
Kurt Schwitters – Selections from Ursonate
Caroline Shaw – Rise
Stuart Macrae – elided compressed
Erin Gee – Mouthpiece
Nicole Smede – The Silence of Thunder (a hidden river) WP
Kaija Saariaho – From The Grammar of Dreams IV
Giacinto Scelsi – Hô I
Mathis Saunier – Cannibal
Morton Feldman – Only
Linda Buckley – revelavit
Nicole Smede’s work is commissioned by CIMF’s A Major Lift
This concert is supported by Andrew Blanckensee
ARTIST Learn more about the artist
Artist Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Praised by The Guardian for her “irrepressible sense of drama and unmissable, urgent musicality”, Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is passionate about curation and programming, with a broad repertoire that encompasses contemporary music, art song, chamber music, early music, opera, oratorio and non-classical collaborations. Lotte is an Ambassador of Donne, a charitable foundation dedicated to promoting gender equality in the music industry, and in 2022 she was named as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, an honour reserved for alumni who have contributed significantly to the music industry.
Full bio at www.lottebettsdean.com
Photo credit Benjamin Ealovega
Artist Nicole Smede, multi-disciplinary artist
Nicole Smede is a multidisciplinary artist of Worimi, Irish and colonial descent, living and creating on Wadi Wadi Dharawal Country. A re-connection to ancestry, language and culture ripples through her work in voice, song, sound and poetry, exploring what it means to be ‘of Country’.
A trained mezzo soprano and graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Nicole has performed and recorded repertoire from classical, theatre, rock and contemporary music through to film and other media. Her voice has been heard on Triple J as well as globally on award-winning film scores, and graced the stages of City Recital Hall, Parliament House, MONA FOMA festival to art galleries and venues across Australia.