# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Quartet for Heart & Breath – Lotte Bettes-Dean mezzo-soprano & Phaedra Ensemble
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: 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’)
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portsmouth/quartet-for-heart-and-breath-lotte-bettes-dean-mezzo-soprano-and-phaedra-ensemble/200029326565928
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, music, concerts, performances
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.portsmouthguildhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/portsmouth-chamber-music-quartet-for-heart-breath/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=portsmouth-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Portsmouth
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Guildhall Square, PO1 2AB Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 50.79687
- **long**: -1.09189
- **full address**: Guildhall Square, PO1 2AB Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Portsmouth Guildhall (https://allevents.in/org/portsmouth-guildhall/26135320)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Guildhall Square, PO1 2AB Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Portsmouth Guildhall
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, music, concerts, performances
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Quartet for Heart & Breath – Lotte Bettes-Dean mezzo-soprano & Phaedra Ensemble ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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