Héloïse Werner: The Open Fund for Music Creators

Héloïse will record her debut solo album with Delphian Records in Autumn 2021 for release in 2022. The disc will feature Georges Aperghis’ dazzling ‘Récitations’ for solo voice as well as six new vocal duo commissions from composers Josephine Stephenson, Nico Muhly, Oliver Leith, Elaine Mitchener and Héloïse, each written in response to the ‘Récitations’. Each new commission will feature a different instrument: guitar (Laura Snowden), flute (Daniel Shao), cello (Colin Alexander), percussion (Calum Huggan), viola (Lawrence Power) and bassoon (Amy Harman).

Recently described by The Times as ‘quickly becoming a latter-day Cathy Berberian or Meredith Monk’, French-born and London-based soprano and composer Héloïse Werner is one of the 31 under 31 BBC Radio 3 Young Stars 2020. She was the recipient of the Michael Cuddigan Trust Award 2018, Linda Hirst Contemporary Vocal Prize 2017 and one of the four shortlisted nominees in the Young Artist category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2017. Héloïse is soprano and co-director for contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment (soprano, clarinet, harp and double bass), whose debut album is out now on Delphian Records and is one of Presto Classical’s Top 10 Recordings of 2020.