Name: Quartet for Heart & Breath – Lotte Bettes-Dean mezzo-soprano & Phaedra Ensemble
Start: 2026-02-23T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Guildhall Square, PO1 2AB Portsmouth, United Kingdom

$Quartet for Heart & Breath \u2013 Lotte Bettes-Dean mezzo-soprano & Phaedra Ensemble$

Music by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry opens this concert of sumptuous, 21st century compositions for string quartet, performed by Phaedra Ensemble with Lotte Betts-Dean, a vocalist praised by The Guardian for her “unmissable, urgent musicality”. Following its collaboration with American composer Meredith Monk, performer and Godmother of the New York experimental music scene, Phaedra Ensemble performs the composer’s only string quartet, String Songs. Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean then joins the quartet to present works by Kate Whitley and John Tavener, as well as Cassandra Miller’s modern masterpiece Thanksong, a tender reflection on Beethoven’s late Quartet in A minor (Op.132).
RICHARD REED PARRY Quartet for Heart and Breath (6’)
KATE WHITLEY Six Charlotte Mew Settings (16’)
JOHN TAVENER The World (10’)
MEREDITH MONK String Songs (20’)
CASSANDRA MILLER Thanksong (12’)