Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean sings works for solo amplified voice with electronics, from groundbreaking 20th-century works by Scelsi, Feldman and Schwitters to 21st-century pieces that draw on medieval plainchant, experimental hip-hop and breakcore, including works by Mathis Saunier, Stuart MacRae, Linda Buckley and Erin Gee. Receiving its highly-charged début at the Aldeburgh Festival last year, Voice Electric is in part a tribute to Lotte’s lifelong fascination with electronic music, as well as a reflection and celebration of the medium of solo voice and fixed electronic audio in modern composition.
Voice Electric explores the vivid colours of the amplified human voice as it oscillates between ambience and stillness, words and sound, light and dark, wild and calm. Join us in the Howard Assembly Room’s Kino bar for what promises to be an extraordinary event.
Lotte Betts-Dean mezzo-soprano
KURT SCHWITTERS
Selections from Ursonate (1922-32)
CAROLINE SHAW
Rise (2018)
KAIJA SAARIAHO
From The Grammar Of Dreams II, IV (2002)
STUART MACRAE
elided compressed (2022)
ERIN GEE
Mouthpiece I (2000)
GIACINTO SCELSI
Hô I (1960)
FRAME CUT FRAME (BRETT DEAN / SIMON
HUNT)
Raindance Evocation / Approaching
Hegyeshalom (1994)
MORTON FELDMAN
Only (1946)
MATHIS SAUNIER
Cannibal (2022)
LINDA BUCKLEY
revelavit (2011)
Tickets
£15, £13 (unwaged/disabled),
FREE (U30/students)
Festival Passes
Festival passes are available to purchase over the phone by calling 0113 222 3434.
Evening Recital Pass: £150 / £130 (unwaged/disabled)
Lunchtime and Lecture Recitals Pass: £45 / 39 (unwaged/disabled)
Young Artists Pass: £100 / £90 (unwaged/disabled)
Booking
You can also contact our box office on 0113 222 3434 to book tickets over the phone. Please note our box office opening hours are Monday to Friday, 10:00AM - 5:00PM.
Accessibility
Leeds Conservatoire operate a step-free site and is flat surfaced throughout all buildings.
