supported by nkoda. presented with Barnes Music Festival. recommended by Classic FM and BBC Radio 3.
héloïse werner (voice) and colin alexander (cello)
9 march 2022 / 6pm + 8pm / oso arts
100% funded (0 tickets remaining)
award-winning performers and composers héloïse werner and colin alexander perform a variety of new music in a converted postal sorting office
5.30pm: early set doors open
6-7pm: héloïse and colin early set
7:30pm: late set doors open
8-9pm: héloïse and colin late set
9-10.30pm: live jazz until close (included in late set ticket)
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noisenights are our vision for the future of classical music: informal crowdfunded events featuring international soloists in cabaret bars, converted warehouses, and nightclubs.
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the venue:
The OSO Arts Centre is an intimate community space set on Barnes Green.
Located in a converted postal sorting office, the venue seemlessly merges a high-end theatre space with an informal bar.
the music:
Award-winning performers and composers Héloïse Werner and Colin Alexander perform a variety of colourful, theatrical, virtuosic and meditative works for voice and cello in various combinations.
Regulars on BBC Radio 3, their programme includes some of their own works as well as Cathy Berberian’s Stripsody for solo voice and a world première by Oliver Leith for voice and cello. This is an unmissable evening of new music.
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Héloïse Werner & Colin Alexander - time//time
Héloïse Werner - Unspecified Intensions
Héloïse Werner - Confessional
Cathy Berberian - Stripsody
Colin Alexander - Dotddotdot
Colin Alexander - Tourbillon (world premiere)
Oliver Leith - yhyhyhyhyh (world premiere)
Héloïse Werner & Colin Alexander - new work (world premiere)
héloïse werner (voice):
Recipient of the Michael Cuddigan Trust Award 2018, Linda Hirst Contemporary Vocal Prize 2017 and a Leeds Lieder Young Artist 2018, French-born and London-based soprano and composer Héloïse Werner was one of the four shortlisted nominees in the Young Artist category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2017. She was one of the BBC Radio 3’s 31 under 31 Young Stars 2020.
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Héloïse’s debut album PHRASES will be out on Delphian Records in June 2022 and is generously supported by the PRS Foundation Open Fund, The Ambache Trust, The RVW Trust and the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust.
In 2019, Héloïse performed her solo opera The Other Side of the Sea at Kings Place as part of their Venus Unwrapped series. Written in collaboration with poet Octavia Bright, director Emily Burns and visual artist Jessie Rodger, the opera explores language and identity. It was first premiered in London & Aldeburgh in 2018, with generous support from The Michael Cuddigan Trust, and developed in 2017 during a Snape Maltings residency under the mentorship of Zoë Martlew. In 2016, Héloïse starred in Jonathan Woolgar’s acclaimed one-woman opera Scenes from the End at London’s Tristan Bates Theatre, following on from successful runs at the Camden and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.
Héloïse is soprano and co-director for contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment (soprano, clarinet, harp and double bass). They were shortlisted for the RPS Awards 2019 in the Young Artists category, winners of the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Competition 2019, Making Music Selected Artists 2019/20, ClassicalNEXT Showcase Artists 2019, winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards 2017, the Nonclassical’s Battle of the Bands 2014, and Park Lane Group Young Artists 2015-16. Capitalising on their deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments, the ensemble regularly commissions new works (over 50 to date), as well as creating their own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. Their debut album HERE WE ARE is out now on Delphian Records (Presto Classical Recording of the Year, Gramophone Editor’s Choice, The Guardian’s 10 Best Contemporary Albums of 2020). Their second album SONG is out now, also on Delphian Records.
Héloïse recently appeared in The Grange Festival’s production of Precipice as the singing narrator and premiered Freya Waley-Cohen’s new song cycle for soprano and string quartet at Conway Hall, written for her and the Tippett Quartet. In 2019/20 she also toured her new work Phrases for soprano & piano with Natalie Burch, sitting alongside Britten’s Les Illuminations and a new commission by Jonathan Woolgar. This project was generously supported by Wild Plum Arts, Britten-Pears Foundation and Hinrichsen Foundation. In 2018/19, Héloïse performed in Macbeth at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, singing music by Laura Moody. She was one of the artists for the RPS-winning “Schumann Street” produced by Spitalfields Festival 2017, and appeared at the 2016 BBC Proms as one of the two singers performing in Steve Reich’s Music for large ensemble with the Multi-Story Orchestra.
Héloïse has written for musicians including violist Lawrence Power, mezzo-soprano Marielou Jacquard, pianist Kunal Lahiry, violinist Fenella Humphreys, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, The Gesualdo Six, The Bach Choir, mezzo-soprano Grace Durham and Miller-Porfiris Duo, commissioned by Spitalfields Music Festival 2020. Upcoming 2021 commissions include works for bassoonist Amy Harman, CoMA and harpsichordist Pawel Siwczak. A selected list of her works is available here.
Héloïse was born in Paris and was a member of the ‘Maîtrise de Radio France’ for six years. At the same time, she studied the cello at the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel with Valérie Aimard. She then read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where she was a choral scholar. At Cambridge, she studied composition with Giles Swayne and won the 2011 Clare College Carol Competition. In 2009, she was awarded the ‘Creation Prize’ from the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel for her songs for piano and voice, which she performed as part of her cello final diploma. She completed her vocal studies with Alison Wells and coach Anna Tilbrook on the MMus course at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as a Linda Pilgrim Charitable Trust Scholar and a Help Musicians UK Postgraduate Award holder. She has appeared in masterclasses with Barbara Hannigan, Sir Thomas Allen, John Mark Ainsley and Eugene Asti.
colin alexander (cello):
Colin Alexander is a composer and cellist working across a range of disciplines and traditions. Whilst performing with groups such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra Ensemble, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and 12 Ensemble, he also has written for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra, Contrechamps and Le Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain.
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He has released two albums with Addelam on the Big Ship label and features on both ‘Tre Voci – Auro’ and ‘I hope this finds you well in these strange times – vol.2’ on Nonclassical.
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