ORCHESTRAL
The Wood Pigeon (2026)
solo percussion, SATB chorus, orchestra and playback & string orchestra – commissioned by BBC – duration c. 6′
premiere: Dame Evelyn Glennie, BBC Singers and Fantasia Orchestra, cond. Tom Fetherstonhaugh, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, 11 August 2026
Lullaby for a sister (2025)
soprano & string orchestra – arr. Alexander/Werner for Scottish Ensemble – duration c. 3′
(the piece also exists in a version for soprano & cello)
siren suite (2024)
soprano & orchestra – commissioned by the CBSO – duration: c. 15′
premiere: Héloïse & the CBSO, conducted by Ilan Volkov at Birmingham Symphony Hall, 11 January 2025
(the piece also exists in a c. 11′ version – arr. Werner for Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, premiere 29 November 2025)
REJOICE! (2023)
choir & orchestra – commissioned by the London Handel Festival – duration: c. 5′
premiere: 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
for mira (2022)
orchestra – commissioned by Aurora Orchestra – duration: c. 8′
premiere: Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, 25 March 2023
crossings (2022)
soprano & orchestra – commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – duration: c. 5′
premiere: CBSO & Héloïse, conducted by Clark Rundell at Birmingham Symphony Hall, 29 January 2023 + out on NMC Recordings
Unspecified Intentions (2022)
voice & string orchestra, arr. Alexander/Werner – duration: 3′
premiere: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Héloïse in May 2022 for BBC Radio 3’s ‘This Classical Life Live’ – broadcast on BBC Radio 5 July 2022
(the piece also exists in a solo voice version)
CHORAL
O Radix Jesse (2026)
soprano soloist and SATB Choir – commissioned by Cassandra Goad, in partnership with Horatio’s Garden – duration c. 4 – 7′ (there is flexibility for the timings of the freer sections, so that the length of the piece can be adapted to suit each performance)
premiere: soprano Danielle de Niese and the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, directed by Andrew Carwood, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 8th December 2026
The Wood Pigeon (2026)
solo percussion, SATB chorus, orchestra and playback & string orchestra – commissioned by BBC – duration c. 6′
premiere: Dame Evelyn Glennie, BBC Singers and Fantasia Orchestra, cond. Tom Fetherstonhaugh, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, 11 August 2026
Light, persists (2026)
Five voices (SMzMzTBAr) and three cellos – co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall – duration: c. 20′
premiere: Wigmore Hall, 17th July 2026
Declared extinct (2026)
SMzATBarB Choir – commissioned by Ars Nova Copenhagen – libretto by Emma Werner – duration: c. 10′
premiere: Ars Nova Copenhagen, cond. Sofia Jeanin Llums d’Antiga, Barcelona, 22 April 2026
Erinnerungen (2025)
SSAATTBB Choir – commissioned by Bayerischen Rundfunks – duration: c. 11′
premiere: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, cond. Peter Dijkstra at Gluck Festspiele, 8 May 2026
Nunc Dimittis (2025)
SSAATTB Choir – commissioned by Clare College, Cambridge – duration: c. 3′
premiere: The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Graham Ross at Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, 14 June 2026
O Oriens (2025)
SATB Choir – commissioned by The Chapter House Choir – duration: c. 3′
premiere: Chapter House Choir, conducted by Benjamin Morris, York Minster, 19 December 2025
M87 (2025)
SSAATTBB Choir – commissioned by BBC Radio 3 – duration: c. 6′
premiere: BBC Singers on BBC Radio 3, 7 June 2025
Joys in love (2024)
SATB Choir – commissioned by Help Musicians UK – duration: c. 3′
premiere: The Choirs of St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral, directed by Andrew Carwood, St Paul’s Cathedral, 20 November 2024
O Sapientia (2023)
SATB Choir – commissioned by The Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral – duration: c. 4′
premiere: The Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, directed by Andrew Carwood, St Paul’s Cathedral, 2 December 2023
REJOICE! (2023)
SATB choir & orchestra – commissioned by the London Handel Festival – duration: c. 5′
premiere: 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
Magnificat (2022)
SATB Choir – commissioned by Clare College, Cambridge – duration: c. 5′
premiere: The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Graham Ross at Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, 26 February 2023
Sable & Snow (2022)
soprano soloist & children’s choir – commissioned by Radio France for Maîtrise de Radio France – words by Emma Werner & Ali Lewis – duration: 10′
premiere: Maîtrise de Radio France & Héloïse – video here
Inner Phrases (2020)
SATB choir, percussion, piano and cello – commissioned by The Bach Choir – words by Arthur Rimbaud – duration: 3’30
premiere: Bach Inspired (Stone Records, March 2022)
Coronasolfege for 6 (2020)
AATTBB – commissioned by The Gesualdo 6 – duration: 5′
premiere: Autumn 2020 + out on nonclassical
The French Hens (2020)
SATB choir – commissioned by The Corvus Consort – duration: 30”
premiere: December 2020
O Clavis David (2011)
SATB choir – duration: 3’30 – winner of the Clare College Carol Competition
premiere: December 2011 – Clare College Choir, Cambridge
SOLO & CHAMBER – VOCAL
Five miniatures (2026)
tenor & lute – commissioned by Benjamin Hulett – duration: c. 5′
premiere: TBA
Light, persists (2026)
Five voices (SMzMzTBAr) and three cellos – co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall – duration: c. 20′
premiere: Wigmore Hall, 17th July 2026
Winter spell (2025)
soprano & piano – commissioned by Rebecca Lea for the New Winter Song Book – duration c. 3′
premiere: January 2026
The Cuckoo’s Hour (2025)
soprano & ensemble (flutes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, violins, celli) – commissioned by Royal Northern Sinfonia – duration 11′
premiere: Héloïse & Royal Northern Sinfonia at Glasshouse International Centre for Music, 31 May 2025
Mélancolie (2024)
soprano & guitar – commissioned by Xuefei Yang – words by Cécile Sauvage – duration c. 3′
premiere: out 7 March 2025 on Platoon
duo for mira (2024)
voice & ensemble (clarinets, bassoons, violins, celli) arr. Alexander/Werner – duration c. 5′
premiere: Héloïse & Royal Northern Sinfonia at Glasshouse International Centre for Music, 31 May 2025
(this piece is an arrangement of a section of ‘for mira’ for orchestra)
Thunder clears (2024)
solo voice – co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall – words by Ali Lewis – duration c. 4’30
premiere: Héloïse at Wigmore Hall, 2 March 2024
(this piece also exists in a version for soprano, clarinet, double bass and harp – out October 2025 on Delphian Records)
wander (2024)
voice & ensemble (tenor recorder, robo-recorder, clarinet, harp, piano, headspace, string quintet) – commissioned by Royal Northern Sinfonia – duration: c. 12′
premiere: Héloïse & RNS Moves – The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, 17 March 2024
Knight’s Dream (2023)
mezzo-soprano & piano – commissioned by the BBC – words by Heinrich Heine – duration: c. 12′
premiere: mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston & pianist Sholto Kynoch – Oxford International Song Festival, 16 October 2023
Exodus (2023)
mezzo-soprano & cello – commissioned by Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. – words by Ali Lewis – duration: c.8’30”
premiere: mezzo-soprano Lila Chrisp and cellist Colin Alexander – Ludwigshafen, 13 October 2023
(movement III also exists in a version for voice & ensemble – arr. Alexander/Werner – premiere in May 2025 with RNS)
Lullaby for a sister (2023)
soprano & cello – supported by PRSF Women Make Music – words by Emma Werner – duration c. 3′
premiere: Héloïse & Colin Alexander – End of the Road Festival, 3 September 2023 + out on Héloïse’s second album Close-Ups in May 2024
4 Handel interludes for ‘In the Realms of Sorrows’ (2023)
counter-tenor, oboes, strings & harpsichord – commissioned by the London Handel Festival – duration: c. 8′
premiere: London Handel Festival – cond. Laurence Cummings – dir. Adele Thomas – Stone Nest, London, 28 February 2023
Les Leçons du Mardi (2022)
soprano & string quartet – co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with support from Marchus Trust, Hinrichsen Foundation and Vaughan Williams Foundation – libretto by Emma Werner – duration: c.10′
premiere: Tippett Quartet & Héloïse at Wigmore Hall on 8 March 2023
close-ups (2022)
soprano & violin – commissioned by Radio France – words by Emma Werner – duration: 12′
premiere: Hae-Sun Kang & Héloïse at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Auditorium, Paris, Festival Présences, 11 February 2023
The Erl-King (2021)
soprano & viola – commissioned by Shiry Rashkovsky – words by Angela Carter – duration: 5′
premiere: Shiry Rashkovsky & Héloïse at Close and Musical Festival, Fidelio Cafe, August 2021 + released in January 2022 on October House Records
mixed phrases (2021)
soprano & viola/violin – commissioned by The Viola Commissioning Circle, written for Lawrence Power / lockdown commission 8 – words by Arthur Rimbaud – duration: 10′
premiere: Lawrence Power & Héloïse at Wigmore Hall, June 2021 + filmed at the Asylum, Peckham (video here) + features on Heloise’s debut album Phrases (Delphian Records, June 2022)
(this piece also exists in a version for soprano & ensemble – arr. Alexander/Werner – premiered in April 2025 at Wigmore Hall)
Like Words (2021)
soprano & bassoon – written for Amy Harman (supported by PRS Foundation) – words by Ali Lewis – duration: 4′
(this piece also exists in a version for soprano & ensemble – arr. Werner – premiered with RNS Moves in March 2024)
premiere: Emily Hultmark & Héloïse at Wigmore Hall, June 2022 + features on Heloise’s debut album Phrases (Delphian Records, June 2022)
Unspecified Intentions (2021)
solo voice – duration: c. 3′
premiere: St John’s Smith Square, July 2021 + features on Heloise’s debut album Phrases (Delphian Records, June 2022)
The Orange Vendor (2020)
mezzo-soprano & baritone – commissioned by Helen Charlston & Michael Craddock – words by Ali Lewis – duration: 5’
premiere: 29 July 2020 – Helen Charlston & Michael Craddock – City Music Foundation broadcast series + features on Isolation Songbook (Delphian Records, March 2021)
(this piece also exists in a version for soprano & mezzo-soprano – premiered by Loud Cows in May 2026)
Inside Shifts (2020)
soprano & cello – duration: 6’
premiere: 4 July 2020 – New Music Show, BBC Radio 3 – performed by Héloïse
Inside Shifts (ii) (2020)
soprano & cello – duration: 4′
out on nonclassical
Kingdom Animalia (2020)
mezzo-soprano & piano – commissioned by mezzo-soprano Grace Durham – words by Aracelis Girmay – – duration: 10’
premiere: Festival Arsmondo Iles, Opera du Rhin, March 2026
… a lockdown tune…(2020)
solo soprano – commissioned by Stephanie Lamprea – duration: 1’
premiere: May 2020 – Stephanie Lamprea – Tiny works for Quarantine Vol 2
Phrases (2019)
soprano & piano – funded by Hinrichsen Foundation & written during a Made at the Red House residency organised by Wild Plum Arts in partnership with Britten-Pears Foundation – words by Arthur Rimbaud – duration: 10’
premiere: Héloïse Werner & Natalie Burch at The Red House, Aldeburgh, November 2019
Confessional (2019)
solo soprano – duration: 4’ (reworking of sections from The Other Side of the Sea)
Le Coeur Crucifié (2019)
mezzo-soprano & piano – commissioned by Marielou Jacquard – words by Philothée Gaymard – duration 4’
premiere: Marilou Jacquard & Kunal Lahiry at Concert Jeunes Talents, Petit Palais, Paris, May 2029
The Other Side of the Sea (2018)
solo opera (soprano & cello) – libretto by Octavia Bright – funded by the Michael Cuddigan Trust & developed in partnership with Snape Maltings – duration: 45’
premiere: July 2018 – London & Aldeburgh – performed by Héloïse (3rd performance at Kings Place in April 2019 as part of Venus Unwrapped)
SOLO & CHAMBER – INSTRUMENTAL
New cadences for Mozart Violin Concerto n.4 (2024)
solo violin – commissioned by Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux – duration c. 5′
premiere: Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux in Vincennes, November 2025
Hidden Mechanisms (2024)
piano quintet – commissioned by Manchester Collective – duration: c. 10′
premiere: Manchester Collective at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, 6 February 2025
Incantation in 4 parts (2023)
string quartet – commissioned by Quatuor Elmire – duration: c. 8′
premiere: Quatuor Elmire at La Scala, Paris, 13 October 2023
Double Incantation (2022)
oboe & cello – commissioned by Anna Durance with support from Arts Council England – duration: 3’30”
premiere: recording out on streaming platforms
(this piece also exists in a version for for 2 clarinets and 2 celli – arr. Alexander/Werner – premiere in May 2025 by RNS)
an inviting object (2022)
piano – commissioned by I & I Foundation, in partnership with Lucerne Festival for Mishka Rushdie Momen – duration: 8′
premiere: Mishka Rushdie Momen at Lucerne Summer Festival, 25 August 2022
a many-layered object (2021)
two clavichords – commissioned by Terence Charlston and Julian Perkins – duration: 8′
premiere: Terence Charlston and Julian Perkins in London, 4 June 2022 and out on Prima Facie
a beautiful object (2021)
harpsichord & ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello) – commissioned by Pawel Siwczak on behalf of Bach Club – duration: 8′
premiere: Thomas Hancox, Flute; Peter Facer, Oboe; Benjamin Mitchell, Clarinet; Jackie Shave, Violin; Caroline Dearnley, Cello; Pawel Siwczak, Harpsichord; at Barnes Music Festival, 17 March 2023
Presto Pasta (2020)
violin & viola – commissioned by Spitalfields Music Festival – duration: 5’
premiere: Miller-Porfiris Duo at Spitalfields Festival: At Home, 5 December 2020
For Fenella (2020)
solo violin – commissioned by Fenella Humphreys – duration: 1’
premiere: Fenella Humphreys at Fidelio Café, London, March 2020 + features on Caprices (Rubicon, March 2022)
OPEN SCORING
SPEAK-PLAY (2022)
open score – commissioned by the Callias Foundation (Berlin) – duration: variable
premiere: The Silk Road Symphony Orchestra in Vienna, June 2023
Outside Phrases (2021)
open score – commissioned by CoMA – duration: 5′
premiere: CoMA London + members of London Sinfonietta at CoMA Festival, Queen Mary University, March 2022 – video here