“Héloïse Werner should be a name on the lips of any musical adventurer. (…) This young soprano-composer – and cellist too – is a one-off, who can transform a tiny fragment of song into a mesmerising drama. It’s as if her whole being is double-jointed. Her beautiful voice can flip itself from long-lined lyricism into a battery of percussive instruments: trilling her tongue at jet-propeller speed, turning a simple vowel sound into a complex expression of love or anguish, with a lexicon of facial expressions to match.” The Observer
“lt is hard not to be in awe of Héloise Werner: a soprano of extraordinary range, tone and vocal abilities, possessing a seemingly inexhaustible expressive range (…) composer of subtle imagination” Gramophone Magazine (debut album Phrases)
“It’s very funny (…) I desperately wanted to play” ***** The Times (close-ups album launch)
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). She is a recipient of the Prix Nadia et Lili Boulanger 2025 from Académie des Beaux Arts and the PRSF Composers’ Fund 2025. She has recently been appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College Oxford for 2026.
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: “this is a record full of poise, curiosity and playfulness (…) Werner and her colleagues make music that is as singular as it is striking” The Observer (****). It was nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2025 in the Vocal Category.