HéloïseWerner

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Soprano & Composer
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Megan Steller

Megan Steller

Associate Artist Manager
Ivo Ivanov

Ivo Ivanov

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Héloïse

French-born soprano and composer Héloïse Werner is currently an Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall and is ‘quickly becoming a latter-day Cathy Berberian or Meredith Monk’ (Richard Morrison, The Times). Her debut album 'Phrases' was released in 2022 on Delphian Records, and quickly garnered widespread critical acclaim, including Sunday Times' 10 Best Classical Records of 2022, Gramophone magazine's Editor’s Choice (“extraordinary range, tone and vocal abilities… composer of subtle imagination”), Presto Classical's Editor’s Choice (“absolute tour de force”), BBC Music Magazine's Choral/Song Choice (*****), The Times' Classical album of the week (****). Apple Music described the disc as “a staggering debut from an imaginative and original voice”. Héloïse's anticipated follow-up 'close-ups' was released in June 2024, and launched at the Southbank Centre.

As a composer, Werner has written for the CBSO, Aurora Orchestra, Maitrise de Radio France, London Handel Festival, Lawrence Power, Mishka Rushdie-Momen and Helen Charlston and has commissions in the pipeline for Manchester Collective, St Paul’s Cathedral, BBC Singers, and Royal Northern Sinfonia, amongst others. As a soprano, Héloïse has performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Grange Festival, CBSO and Nash Ensemble, and created the role of Madame DuVal in Sarah Angliss’ opera Giant opening the Aldeburgh Festival 2023. Of her solo opera The Other Side of the Sea, The Times said "you can't help but be dazzled by it..."

Héloïse is a fluent improviser and musical leader, working with the contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment, the winners of the Young Artist Award at the RPS awards in 2021.

Héloïse is based in London

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Jun 2024
Southbank Centre, London
Héloïse Werner Album Launch: close-ups
Nov 2024
Southbank Centre, London
Lawrence Power’s Lock-in
Nov 2024
St Paul's Cathedral, London
Premiere of Werner's new anthem for the combined choirs of Westminster Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey (cond. Andrew Carwood MBE)

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Selected Repertoire

Héloïse WernerREJOICE! (2023) for choir & orchestra, commissioned by the London Handel Festival and premiered by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Sofi Jeannin at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 6 April 2024
Héloïse Wernerfor mira (2022) for orchestra, commissioned by the Aurora Orchestra and premiered by the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, 25 March 2023
Héloïse Wernercrossings (2022) for soprano & orchestra, commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and premiered by CBSO & Héloïse, conducted by Clark Rundell at Birmingham Symphony Hall, 29 January 2023
Héloïse WernerUnspecified Intentions (2022) for voice & string orchestra, arranged by Héloïse and Colin Alexander and premiered by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Héloïse in May 2022 for BBC Radio 3’s ‘This Classical Life Live’

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Press

  • Lawrence Power’s Lock-In

    Southbank Centre, London
    Nov 2024
    • ...while Héloise Werner’s Mixed Phrases takes lines from a poem by Rimbaud, which a soprano (Werner herself) atomises into syllables and isolated phonemes as the viola urges her on, creating a witty to-and-fro.

Discography