Héloïse performs some of her works for solo voice at Studio 104, Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Paris, 8pm
Recital and chamber music workshop in partnership with harpist Anne Denholm (1pm & 3.15pm)
Club Inégales
Club Inégales, London, 8pm
Héloïse performs a solo set alongside artists Beibei Wang, Shri Sriram & Colin Alexander
The Hermes Experiment – Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, London, 1pm
The Hermes Experiment & Abel Selaocoe (cello)
Abel Selaocoe, work for cello & vocals
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Abel Selaocoe, new commission for The Hermes Experiment
Shruthi Rajasekar, new commission for The Hermes Experiment & Abel Selaocoe
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree (new arrangement by Misha)
Joys in love – St Paul’s Cathedral
Festival of St Cecilia, St Paul’s Cathedral, London
World premiere of Héloïse’s new work Joys in love written for the Choirs of St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral
Lawrence Power – Southbank Centre
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, 8pm
Lawrence Power’s Lock-in
Lawrence Power viola
Héloïse Werner soprano
Sergio Bucheli lute
Jessie Rodger creative director
Programme includes works by Buxtehude, Fazil Say, Héloïse Werner, Marais, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Paganini, Thomas Larcher, Massenet & Esa-Pekka Salonen
O Sapientia – Bach Akademie Charlotte Choir
25 October – The Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville, NC, 7.30pm
26 October – Myers Park Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC, 7.30pm
27 October – Lancaster Cultural Arts Center, Lancaster, SC, 7.30pm
Bach Akademie Charlotte Choir
Nicolas Haigh, conductor
Their programme includes Héloïse’s choir piece ‘O Sapientia’
The Hermes Experiment – Roman River Festival
Roman River Festival, First Site, Lewis Gardens, Colchester, 1.30pm
Spare & Nature
Cécile Chaminade (arr. Schofield), La Lune paresseuse
Tom Coult, I Find Planets
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs (movements I & III)
Soosan Lolavar, Mâh Didam
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Birthday Party – nonclassical
Two Palms, London
Héloïse joins Colin Alexander to perform a voice and duo set for nonclassical’s 20th Birthday Party and fundraiser concert
After Dark – Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
Louis’ Loft, Saskatoon, Canada
SSO musicians perform Héloïse’s duo Double Incantation for oboe and cello
Maîtrise de Toulouse – End of Season Concert
Temple du Salin, Toulouse, 8pm
Maîtrise de Toulouse, conducted by Mark Opstad, perform Héloïse’s Magnificat
close-ups album launch – Southbank Centre
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, 8pm
Album launch of Héloïse’s new album close-ups (Delphian Records)
Héloïse Werner – soprano, cello, composer; Max Baillie – violin, viola, hardanger fiddle; Julian Azkoul – violin; Ruth Gibson – viola; Colin Alexander – cello, arranger; Kit Downes – cello; Marianne Schofield – double bass, arranger
Programme:
Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Alexander & Werner), O vis eternitatis
Improvised instrumental work I
Julie Pinel (arr. Schofield), Sombres lieux
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Birchall), Che si può fare
Héloïse Werner, Les Leçons du Mardi (libretto by Emma Werner)
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Wallen), Tree
Improvised instrumental work II
Héloïse Werner, Lullaby for a sister
Héloïse Werner, Close-ups
Improvised instrumental work III
Héloïse Werner (arr. Alexander & Werner), Unspecified Intentions
BBC Radio 3 – New Music Show
10pm – broadcast of the second half of the concert from 17th April at Milton Court, Barbican Centre, with Alice Zawadzki, Aidan O’Rourke, Kit Downes and Colin Alexander.
The Hermes Experiment – Cafe OTO
Cafe OTO, London, 8.30pm
The Hermes Experiment
Josephine Stephenson – tanka
Fergus Hall – New commission (supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society)
Sylvia Lim, Kite (Dymchurch)
Mira Calix, DMe
Nwando Ebizie – New commission (supported by the Marchus Trust)
Elaine Mitchener – the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm) – Double Fiesta
Helen Charlston – Trinity College
Trinity College, Cambridge, 6.15pm
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform Héloïse’s song cycle Knight’s Dream (written for them in 2023, commissioned by BBC Radio 3)
BBC Radio 3 – New Music Show
10pm – broadcast of the first half of the concert from 17th April at Milton Court, Barbican Centre, with Alice Zawadzki, Aidan O’Rourke, Kit Downes and Colin Alexander.
The Hermes Experiment – Kettle’s Yard
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 8pm
The Hermes Experiment
Philip Venables, A Photograph
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Mira Calix, DMe
Elaine Mitchener, the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Yeah
Sylvia Lim, Kite (Dymchurch)
Jeremy Thurlow, Quiet Songs
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Maîtrise de Toulouse – Festival de Rocamadour
Basilique Saint-Sauveur, Rocamadour, 4pm
Maîtrise de Toulouse, conducted by Mark Opstad, perform Héloïse’s Magnificat (French premiere)
Helen Charlston – Mayfield Festival
St. Dunstan’s Church, High Street, Mayfield, 7.30pm
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform Héloïse’s song cycle Knight’s Dream (written for them in 2023, commissioned by BBC Radio 3)
Allan Clayton, Alice Zawadzki and Héloïse Werner – Barbican Centre
Milton Court, Barbican Centre, 7.30pm
Internationally acclaimed singers Allan Clayton, Alice Zawadzki and Héloïse Werner are joined by pianist Kit Downes and cellist Colin Alexander in a programme of new works by each of the artists. This sonorous and meditative programme of semi-improvised music features specially reworked pieces by these five exceptional artists. Devised for this concert, this 70-minute set will bring together the unique voices of the three singers and blend them with the sounds of strings, piano, chamber organ and harmonium.
NYCGB x OAE – London Handel Festival
St Martin in the Fields, London, 7.30pm
World premiere of Héloïse’s new work REJOICE! for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Sofi Jeannin
RNS Moves – The Glasshouse
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Sage Two, Gateshead, 6pm
Héloïse joins the Royal Northern Sinfonia & RNS Moves for a programme of voice + ensemble, also including a new commission wander written by Héloïse
Stockhausen, Awake
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Richard Birchall), Che si può fare
Héloïse Werner, Like Words
Héloïse Werner, Outside phrases
Liza Bec, Space Dinosaur Music
Héloïse Werner, wander (world premiere)
Héloïse Werner, Unspecified Intentions
CoMA Festival – The Glasshouse
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead, 11.30am
Héloïse runs a vocal workshop for CoMA as part of their Festival 2024
Walmer Castle – Deal Music & Arts
Walmer Castle, Kent, 5pm
Duo concert with cellist Colin Alexander
Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Alexander & Werner), O vis eternitatis
Julie Pinel (arr. Alexander & Werner), Sombres Lieux
J.S.Bach, movements from solo cello suite III
Héloïse Werner, Like Words
Colin Alexander, Barcarolle
Héloïse Werner, Lullaby for a sister
Colin Alexander, Phlutes
Henry Purcell (arr. Alexander), An Evening Hymn
Associate Artist – Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, London, 7.30pm
For her first concert as Associate Artist of the Wigmore Hall, Héloïse is joined by mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen and harpist Anne Denholm to perform the following programme:
Héloïse Werner, new work (co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall)
Anna Meredith, Fin like a flower
Barbara Strozzi, Sospira, Respira
Héloïse Werner, an inviting object (UK premiere)
Kaija Saariaho (arr. Werner), Il Pleut
Owain Park, A singers Ode to Sappho
Barbara Strozzi, Sonetto Proemio Dell’opera
Errollyn Wallen, Tree
Hannah Kendall, Diving Bell 2
John Cage, Four 6
Festival Présences – Radio France
Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Auditorium, Paris, 8pm
Festival Présences, Concert d’Ouverture
Héloïse joins violinist Hae-Sun Kang (Ensemble Intercontemporain) to premiere her new work Close-Ups (Radio France commission)
Live on France Musique and ARTE Concerts
Manchester Collective – Barbican Centre
Milton Court, Barbican Centre, 7.30pm
Freya Waley-Cohen, Spell Book, Volumes I and II
Manchester Collective
Héloïse Werner, soprano
Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Katy Bray, mezzo-soprano
BBC Radio 3 – New Music Show
crossings, performed by Héloïse & the City of Birmingham Orchestra, conducted by Clark Rundell, and written by Héloïse, is broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 New Music Show, 10pm
Persephone Concert
Persephone Bookshop, Bath, 7pm
Duo concert with cellist Colin Alexander
Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Alexander & Werner), O vis eternitatis
Julie Pinel (arr. Alexander & Werner), Sombres Lieux
Héloïse Werner, Like Words
Colin Alexander, Barcarolle
Héloïse Werner, Lullaby for a sister
Pablo Casals (arr. Beamish), Song of the Birds
Colin Alexander, Phlutes
Henry Purcell (arr. Alexander), An Evening Hymn
BBC Radio 3 in Concert – FRSO
BBC Radio 3 Broadcast, 7.30pm
Nicholas Collon conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Héloïse Werner and Schubert, and they are joined by István Várdai for Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1.
St Paul’s Cathedral Choir – Advent Carol Service
St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 5.30pm
Second performance of Héloïse’s new carol O Sapientia written for the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir for their Advent Carol Service 2023
CoMA – My Sounds
As a mentor of the CoMA ‘My Sounds’ programme for young musicians, Héloïse leads a workshop in Sheffield on Sunday 3rd December AM
The Hermes Experiment – Music in the Round
Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield, 8pm
The Hermes Experiment
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (arr. Schofield), Les rossignols
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Imogen Holst (arr. Pashley), ‘Cinquepace’ & ‘Gigue’ from Suite for Viola
Ewan Campbell, London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the line
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The End of the ending
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
St Paul’s Cathedral Choir – Advent Carol Service
St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 5.30pm
World premiere of Héloïse’s new carol O Sapientia written for the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir for their Advent Carol Service 2023
Music in the Round x CoMA workshop
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 1pm
Héloïse leads an open score workshop for CoMA Sheffield, hosted by Music in the Round
The Hermes Experiment – RHUL workshop
The Hermes Experiment workshop new works by composition students from the Royal Holloway, University of London
The Hermes Experiment – RPS Open Rehearsal
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 7pm
Inside the Music: The Hermes Experiment — open rehearsal for the Royal Philharmonic Society
Ema Nikolovska & Kunal Lahiry – Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, London, 7.30pm
mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska & pianist Kunal Lahiry perform Héloïse’s song ‘Le Cœur Crucifié’ as part of their recital programme
The Hermes Experiment – Ipswich Chamber Music Society
Great Hall, Ipswich School, 7.30pm
The Hermes Experiment
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a Flower
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Lili Boulanger (arr. Pashley), Prelude in Db
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets & Attente
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply & The end of the ending
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Handel (arr. Pashley), Minuet in G minor
Handel (arr. Schofield), 1st movement from Water Music Suite No. 3
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Southbank Sinfonia – Artist Development Residency
Benslow Music, Hitchin
Together with harpist Anne Denholm, Héloïse runs an improvisation workshop for the new 2023/24 Southbank Sinfonia Fellows.
OperaWorks – Opera Prelude
Chelsea Theatre, London
Héloïse gives a seminar for OperaWorks, a conference and professional development day for all emerging young artists.
Helen Charlston – Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, London, 1pm
Second performance of Héloïse’s new song cycle Knight’s Dream written for mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston & pianist Sholto Kynoch (BBC commission)
Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Helsinki Music Centre, Concert Hall, Helsinki, 7pm
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon
Performance of Héloïse’s ‘for mira’
Up Close and Musical Festival – Fidelio Cafe
Fidelio Cafe, London, 8.15pm
October House Records @ Up Close and Musical Festival
Héloïse performs a set with violinist Max Baillie and bassist Shri Sriram
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Helsinki Music Centre, Concert Hall, Helsinki, 7pm
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon
Finnish premiere of Héloïse’s ‘for mira’
Helen Charlston – Oxford International Song Festival
Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 1pm
World premiere of Héloïse’s new song cycle Knight’s Dream written for mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston & pianist Sholto Kynoch (BBC commission)
Lila Chrisp – Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen
World premiere of Héloïse’s new song cycle Exodus for mezzo-soprano Lila Chrisp & cellist Colin Alexander, commissioned by Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
Quatuor Elmire – La Scala Paris
La Scala, Paris, 9.30pm
Aux Armes, Contemporains!
World premiere of Héloïse’s new string quartet Incantation in 4 parts written for & commissioned by Quatuor Elmire, alongside music by Reich, Dusapin and Dutilleux
Also recorded for broadcast on France Musique
Lotte Betts-Dean – Ludlow
Ludlow Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm
mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, pianist Jâms Coleman and violist Edgard Francis perform 2 works by Héloïse: Le Coeur Crucifié et The Erl-King
The Hermes Experiment – Southbank Centre
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, 6pm
The Hermes Experiment
Philip Venables, A Photograph
Elaine Mitchener, new work (commissioned by Southbank Centre)
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment, Metropolis
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Album recording – Delphian Records
18-20 September – Héloïse records her second album, ‘Close-Ups’ at SJE, Oxford with an amazing lineup of musicians, for release in June 2024 on Delphian Records – more TBA soon!
End of the Road Festival
Larmer Trees Garden
Composers Héloïse Werner and Colin Alexander perform a variety of colourful, virtuosic and meditative works for voice and cello in various combinations.
Set at Backstory Bookshop
Backstory in Balham, London, 6pm
Composers Héloïse Werner and Colin Alexander perform a variety of colourful, virtuosic and meditative works for voice and cello in various combinations.
History of the Present – Edinburgh Art Festival
History of the Present – an experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict. It has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner.
Dream Songs and Recitations – Dartington
Solo voice recital at Great Hall, Dartington Trust, South Devon, 9.45pm
Héloïse Werner & Zoë Martlew, Syncopate
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Something More Than Mortal
Jonathan Woolgar, Six Dream Songs
Georges Aperghis, Récitation N. 9
Héloïse Werner, Unspecified Intentions
Héloïse Werner, Confessional
Georges Aperghis, Récitation N.8
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody
Dartington Music Summer School
Héloïse leads two courses at the Dartington Music Summer School 5-12 August 2023: a performer/composer course, and an improvisation course with cellist Matthew Barley
History of the Present – Royal Opera House
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 1pm & 4pm
History of the Present – an experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict. It has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner.
Clare College Choir – Stroud Arts Festival
Holy Trinity Church, Stroud, 7.30pm
The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Graham Ross, perform Héloïse’s new ‘Magnificat’, written for them, as part of their concert at the Stroud Arts Festival.
Clare College Choir – Beaminster Festival
St Mary’s Church, Beaminster, 7.30pm
The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Graham Ross, perform Héloïse’s new ‘Magnificat’, written for them, as part of their concert at the Beaminster Festival.
History of the Present – Art Night Dundee
History of the Present – an experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict. It has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner.
Giant – Aldeburgh Festival
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Snape, 3.30pm
Giant is a new opera from composer Sarah Angliss, poet Ross Sutherland and director Sarah Fahie.
Karim Sulayman – Charles Byrne
Gweneth Ann Rand – Rooker
Héloïse Werner – Madame DuVal
Jonathan Gunthorpe – Hunter
Melanie Pappenheim – Sister Mary
Giant – Aldeburgh Festival
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Snape, 7.30pm
Giant is a new opera from composer Sarah Angliss, poet Ross Sutherland and director Sarah Fahie.
Karim Sulayman – Charles Byrne
Gweneth Ann Rand – Rooker
Héloïse Werner – Madame DuVal
Jonathan Gunthorpe – Hunter
Melanie Pappenheim – Sister Mary
The Hermes Experiment – Budleigh Festival
Festival Prelude Concert, The Temple, Budleigh, 7.30pm
The Hermes Experiment
Debussy (arr. Schofield), Fantoches
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation I. The Ellipse
Ayanna Witter Johnson, Draw the Line
Piazzolla (arr. Pashley), ‘Concert d’Aujourd’hui’ from Histoire du tango
Gershwin (arr. Pashley), I Got Rhythm
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Lynne Plowman (arr. Pashley), Pedalling Man
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from History of the Thé Dansant
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Clare College Choir – West Road
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 5.30pm
The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Graham Ross, perform Héloïse’s new ‘Magnificat’, written for them.
The Hermes Experiment – De Doelen
Red Sofa Young at De Doelen, Rotterdam, 7pm
The Hermes Experiment
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a Flower
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Sylvia Lim, Kite (Dymchurch)
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Oliver Leith, Uh Huh, Yeah
History of the Present – Belfast International Arts Festival
Belfast International Arts Festival, Queen’s Film Theatre, 6pm
Premiere of History of the Present – an experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict. It has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner. The work premieres Wednesday 19 April at Belfast International Arts Festival, as part of the programme to commemorate the 25th anniversary of The Good Friday Agreement. The work then tours nationally at Art Night Dundee 24 June, the Royal Opera House, London 2 July, and Edinburgh Art Festival 11 August.
Clare College Choir – Duke Performances
Duke Chapel, Durham, US, 4pm
US premiere Héloïse’s new ‘Magnificat’, written for The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Graham Ross.
The choir will then perform it 5 more times as part of their US Tour in North Carolina, Vermont and Tennessee.
Aurora Orchestra – Isarphilharmonie, Munich
Isarphilharmonie, Munich, 8pm
Aurora Orchestra perform Héloïse’s new work ‘for mira’, conducted by Nicholas Collon
Aurora Orchestra – Heidelberg Frühling
Aula der Neuen Universität, Heidelberg, 6pm
German premiere of Héloïse’s new work ‘for mira’ written for the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon
Aurora Orchestra – Southbank Centre
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 4pm
Premiere of Héloïse’s new work ‘for mira’ written for the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon
Ema Nikolovska – Konzerthaus Dortmund
Konzerthaus Dortmund, Dortmund, 7pm
mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska & pianist Kunal Lahiry perform Héloïse’s song ‘Le Cœur Crucifié’, as part of their recital programme
Barnes Music Festival
St Mary’s Barnes, London, 7.30pm
Premiere of Héloïse’s new work ‘a beautiful object’ for harpsichord & chamber ensemble
Bach Club Soloists, directed by Pawel Siwczak
Thomas Hancox, Flute
Peter Facer, Oboe
Benjamin Mitchell, Clarinet
Jackie Shave, Violin
Caroline Dearnley, Cello
Pawel Siwczak, Harpsichord
The Hermes Experiment – RWCMD
The Hermes Experiment workshop new works by composition students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
The Hermes Experiment – RWCMD
Dora Stoutzker Hall, Cardiff, 7.30pm
The Hermes Experiment
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Yeah
Stevie Wishart, Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound
Mira Calix, DMe
Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment, Metropolis
Shiva Feshareki, new work (world premiere – acoustic version)
The Hermes Experiment – London Handel Festival
Shoreditch Treehouse, London, 7pm
The Hermes Experiment
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Soosan Lolavar, Mâh Didam
Anon (arr. Pashley), Lanchas para bailar
Improvisation
G. F. Handel (arr. Werner), Endless Pleasure
Handel (arr. Schofield), Minuet in G minor
Handel (arr. Hermes), 1st movement from Water Music Suite No. 3
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (arr. Schofield), Les rossignols, dès que le jour commence
Alex Mills, Samsara
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Clare College Choir
Clare Chapel, Cambridge, 6.15pm
Choral Evensong
The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Graham Ross, perform Héloïse’s new ‘Magnificat’, written for them.
IWD – Wigmore Hall (2)
Wigmore Hall, London, 7.30pm
The Hermes Experiment
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Attente
Nicola LeFanu (arr. Denholm), The Bourne
Imogen Holst (arr. Pashley), ‘Cinquepace’ and ‘Gigue’ from Suite for Viola
Lynne Plowman (arr. Pashley), Pedalling Man
Sylvia Lim – Kite (Dymchurch) (world premiere)
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Errollyn Wallen, gun, gun, gun
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
Emily Hall (arr. Pashley), Befalling
IWD – Wigmore Hall (1)
Wigmore Hall, London, 1pm
Héloïse joins the Tippett Quartet to perform works for soprano & string quartet by Kate Whitley, Freya Waley-Cohen, and the premiere of her new work Les Leçons du Mardi, written in collaboration with Dr Emma Werner, which explores themes of sexism in medical history.
Kate Whitley, Three Charlotte Mew Settings
Doreen Carwithen, Quartet N.1
Héloïse Werner, Les Leçons du Mardi (libretto by Emma Werner) – world premiere (Wigmore Hall co-commission, also supported by The Marchus Trust, Hinrichsen Foundation and Vaughan Williams Foundation)
Caroline Shaw, Entr’acte
Freya Waley-Cohen, Spell Book (Volume 2)
The Hermes Experiment – BBC Radio 3
Live performance on BBC Radio 3 In Tune with The Hermes Experiment
In the Realms of Sorrows
London Handel Festival, Stone Nest, London, 7pm
Héloïse has written some new music for the London Handel Festival’s production of In the Realms of Sorrow, staged at the atmospheric Stone Nest.
Director, Adele Thomas
Musical Director, Laurence Cummings
In the Realms of Sorrow
London Handel Festival, Stone Nest, London, 7pm
Héloïse has written some new music for the London Handel Festival’s production of In the Realms of Sorrow, staged at the atmospheric Stone Nest.
Director, Adele Thomas
Musical Director, Laurence Cummings
In the Realms of Sorrow
London Handel Festival, Stone Nest, London, 7pm
Héloïse has written some new music for the London Handel Festival’s production of In the Realms of Sorrow, staged at the atmospheric Stone Nest.
Director, Adele Thomas
Musical Director, Laurence Cummings
In the Realms of Sorrow
London Handel Festival, Stone Nest, London, 7pm
Héloïse has written some new music for the London Handel Festival’s production of In the Realms of Sorrow, staged at the atmospheric Stone Nest.
Director, Adele Thomas
Musical Director, Laurence Cummings
Clare College Choir
Clare Chapel, Cambridge, 6pm
Choral Evensong
Premiere of Héloïse’s new ‘Magnificat’ written for the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Graham Ross
Festival Présences – Radio France
Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Auditorium, Paris, 7.30pm
Héloïse joins violinist Hae-Sun Kang to premiere her new work ‘close-ups’ for voice & violin, commissioned by Radio France
Festival Présences – Radio France
Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Foyer F, Paris, 3pm
Table Ronde
Intervenants :
Unsuk Chin, compositrice
Bianca Chillemi, pianiste et directrice artistique de l’ensemble Maja
Héloïse Werner, soprano et compositrice
Nadia Guerouaou, neuropsychologue
Benoît Navarret, musicologue
Arnaud Merlin, modérateur
En partenariat avec Futurs Composés
CBSO – Birmingham Symphony Hall
Sounds New, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 2.30pm
Héloïse joins the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to premiere her new work ‘crossings’ for voice & orchestra, commissioned by CBSO
The Hermes Experiment & Shiva Feshareki – Barbican
Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London, 7.30pm
This concert is dedicated to the memory of our friend and collaborator Mira Calix.
The Hermes Experiment with Shiva Feshareki, turntables / electronics
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Yeah
Stevie Wishart, Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound
Mira Calix, DMe
Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment, Metropolis
Shiva Feshareki, new work (co-commissioned by Barbican and The Hermes Experiment, supported by The Marchus Trust, Hinrichsen Foundation and Vaughan Williams Foundation)
Carrefour de la Création – France Musique
Broadcast of Héloïse’s Sable & Snow (in full) + composer’s interviews and portrait – 11pm (French time)
Création Mondiale – France Musique
Broadcast of Héloïse’s Sable & Snow, movement 5 on Anne Montaron’s show ‘Création Mondiale’ on France Musique, written for Maîtrise de Radio France – 12h54 & 22h55 (French time)
Création Mondiale – France Musique
Broadcast of Héloïse’s Sable & Snow, movement 4 on Anne Montaron’s show ‘Création Mondiale’ on France Musique, written for Maîtrise de Radio France – 12h54 & 22h55 (French time)
Création Mondiale – France Musique
Broadcast of Héloïse’s Sable & Snow, movement 3 on Anne Montaron’s show ‘Création Mondiale’ on France Musique, written for Maîtrise de Radio France – 12h54 & 22h55 (French time)
Création Mondiale – France Musique
Broadcast of Héloïse’s Sable & Snow, movement 2 on Anne Montaron’s show ‘Création Mondiale’ on France Musique, written for Maîtrise de Radio France – 12h54 & 22h55 (French time)
Création Mondiale – France Musique
Broadcast of Héloïse’s Sable & Snow, movement 1 on Anne Montaron’s show ‘Création Mondiale’ on France Musique, written for Maîtrise de Radio France – 12h54 & 22h55 (French time)
Fast Lane – Elbphilharmonie
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal, Hamburg, 7.30pm
German premiere Héloïse’s song ‘Le Cœur Crucifié’, performed by mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska & pianist Kunal Lahiry as part of their recital programme
Le bruit de la neige – Radio France
Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Auditorium, Paris, 8pm
Héloïse joins the Maîtrise de Radio France and conductor Sofi Jeannin to premiere her new work ‘Sable & Snow’ for children’s choir and soprano, commissioned by Radio France
Also recorded for France Musique
Seven Septets – Barbican
Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London, 7.30pm
Kit Downes, Jas Kayser, Laura Moody, Fred Thomas, Angela Wai Nok Hui, Colin Alexander & Héloïse Werner
Classical, Jazz and experimental improvisation fuse in an electrifying showcase of cutting-edge music from some of the UK’s brightest composer-performers. Multi-instrumentalists in their own rights, each takes a turn to lead with a musical concept of their own, while the remainder of the group illuminate these ideas with their own semi-improvised accompaniment.
The Hermes Experiment – Birmingham Symphony Hall
Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space, Birmingham Symphony Hall, 8pm
The Hermes Experiment
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (arr. Schofield), Les Rossignols
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a flower
Helen Grime (arr. Pashley), Council Offices
Imogen Holst (arr. Pashley), ‘Cinquepace’ and ‘Gigue’ from Suite for Viola
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets and Attente
Ruari Paterson-Achenbach, to sleep on it (selected movements)
Mira Calix, DMe
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Yeah
Anon (arr. Pashley), Lanchas para bailar
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Ivors Composer Week
4pm – Héloïse will be a guest panellist in a live stream of the David Ferguson lecture exploring Classical Beyond the Concert Hall and the impact of new technologies to create and strengthen human connections. The event is part of the Ivors Composer Week. Open to all – more info & register here.
The Hermes Experiment – Southbank Centre
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, 10pm
The Hermes Experiment present Familiar Objects
Timothy Cape, Favourite Bits
Mira Calix, DMe
The Hermes Experiment & Ali Lewis, Familiar Objects
Andy Ingamells, Tea Towel
Matthew Grouse, Daily Rituals
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Oxford Lieder Festival
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford 5pm
Héloïse joins violist Rosalind Ventris to perform the following works for soprano & viola:
Nicola LeFanu, Songs for Jane
Sally Beamish, Buzz
Héloïse Werner, The Erl-King
BBC Philharmonic
Bridgwater Hall, Manchester, 7.30pm
Héloïse joins the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & conductor Eva Ollikainen to premiere Erland Cooper’s Window over Rackwick
Southbank Sinfonia Workshop
The Hermes Experiment run an improvisation workshop for the members of the Southbank Sinfonia, at St John’s Smith Square.
St John’s Smith Square Recital
St John’s Smith Square, London, 8pm
The Hermes Experiment
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a flower
Tom Coult, I Find Planets
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan and Elevation I. The Ellipse
Errollyn Wallen, gun gun gun
The Hermes Experiment, Bass Piece
Ayanna Witter Johnson, Draw the Line
Emily Hall (arr. Pashley), Befalling
Oliver Leith, Uh Huh, Yeah
Charlotte Mew – Faber
Asylum Chapel, Peckham, 7pm
Héloïse joins the Tippett Quartet to perform Kate Whitley’s Six Charlotte Mew Settings, for soprano & string quartet.
This performance is presented jointly by the Michael Cuddigan Trust and Faber.
Lucerne Summer Festival
Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal, 12.15pm
Mishka Rushdie Momen premieres Héloïse’s new work ‘an inviting object’ for solo piano, commissioned by the I&I Foundation for the Lucerne Festival.
Lake District Summer Music
The Hermes Experiment
Carver Church, Windermere, 7.30pm
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets and Attente
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Freya Waley Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Imogen Holst (arr. Pashley), ‘Cinquepace’ and ‘Gigue’ from Suite for Viola
Anna Appleby, The Windhover
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Gershwin (arr. Pashley), I Got Rhythm
Piazzolla (arr. Pashley), ‘Concert d’Aujourd’hui’ from Histoire du tango
BBC Young Composer Day
The Hermes Experiment
Battersea Arts Centre, London
The Hermes Experiment run a workshop for young composers as part of the BBC Young Composer Day.
Welsh Harp Congress
The Hermes Experiment
Dora Stoutzker Hall, Cardiff, 1pm
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation I. The Ellipse
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Sally Beamish, Awuya (solo harp)
Lynne Plowman (arr. Pashley), Pedalling Man
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Budleigh Festival
The Hermes Experiment
St Peter’s Church, Budleigh, 7.30pm
Debussy (arr. Schofield), Fantoches
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation I. The Ellipse
Ayanna Witter Johnson, Draw the Line
Piazzolla (arr. Pashley), ‘Concert d’Aujourd’hui’ from Histoire du tango
Gershwin (arr. Pashley), I Got Rhythm
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Lynne Plowman (arr. Pashley), Pedalling Man
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from History of the Thé Dansant
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
BBC Radio 3 Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 broadcast of ‘This Classical Life: Live’, featuring Héloïse’s performances with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Ellie Slorach (works by Barbara Strozzi and Héloïse)
Unsupervised
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, 7.30pm
Performing a new solo voice work by Melanie Wilson
Phrases Album Release
‘Phrases’, Héloïse’s debut solo album, is released on Delphian Records
More info here
BBC Radio 3 Broadcast
7.30pm – BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Aldeburgh Festival’s New Generation Artists recital, including Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and pianist Kunal Lahiry’s performance Héloïse’s ‘Le Coeur Crucifié’.
Aldeburgh Festival
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, 11am
Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and pianist Kunal Lahiry perform Héloïse’s piece ‘Le Coeur Crucifié’ as part of their BBC Radio 3 Young Generation Artists recital. Broadcast on BBC Radio on 23 June.
Listenpony
The Hermes Experiment
Listenpony: 10th anniversary concert
Crypt on the Green, London, 7.30pm
William Marsey, new work
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Attente
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
O.H.R. at the Amadeus Centre
The Amadeus Centre, London, 8.30pm
October House Records presents an evening of words & music with Kit Downes, Colin Alexander, Sally O’Reilly, Max Baillie and Héloïse Werner
Terence Charlston and Julian Perkins
St Saviour’s Chalk Farm, London, 6pm
Clavichordists Terence Charlston and Julian Perkins give a recital, which includes the premiere Héloïse’s new clavichord duo ‘a many-layered object’.
Aldeburgh Festival
The Hermes Experiment
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 12pm
Cécile Chaminade (arr. Schofield), La Lune paresseuse and Ma première lettre
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Priaulx Ranier, ‘Nunc, lento sonitu’ from Cycle for Declamation
Imogen Holst (arr. Pashley), ‘Cinquepace’ and ‘Gigue’ from Suite for Viola
Tom Coult, I Find Planets
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Phrases Album Launch
Wigmore Hall, 1pm
Héloïse Werner, soprano – Emily Hultmark, bassoon – Colin Alexander, cello – Laura Snowden, guitar – Daniel Shao, flute – Calum Huggan, percussion
Héloïse Werner & Zoë Martlew, Syncopate (solo voice)
Nico Muhly, Benedicite Recitation (voice and flute) – world premiere
Josephine Stephenson, Comme l’espoir / you might all disappear (voice and guitar) – world premiere
Georges Aperghis, Récitation n.9 (solo voice)
Héloïse Werner, Unspecified Intentions (solo voice)
Héloïse Werner, Confessional (solo voice)
Georges Aperghis, Récitation n.8 (solo voice)
Elaine Mitchener, whetdreem (voice and percussion) – world premiere
Héloïse Werner, Like Words (voice and bassoon) – world premiere
Oliver Leith, yhyhyhyhyh (voice and cello)
Zoë Martlew, new commission (world premiere – Wigmore co-commission, also supported by PRSF Foundation and RVW Trust) (voice, flute, guitar, percussion, bassoon, cello)
This Classical Life: Live
The Old Woollen, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, 7.30pm
Héloïse performs works by Barbara Strozzi and herself with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, as part of “This Classical Life: Live” with Jess Gillam and BBC Radio 3
Conductor, Ellie Slorach
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Aldeburgh Young Musicians
18-22 April – tutor on AYM Course, Britten-Pears Arts, Snape Maltings
London Handel Festival
The Hermes Experiment
Saint Vedast-alias-Foster, London, 1pm
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Soosan Lolavar, Mâh Didam
Anon (arr. Pashley), Luchas para bailar
Improvisation
G. F. Handel (arr. Werner), Endless Pleasure
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (arr. Schofield), Les rossignols, dès que le jour commence
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm), Plan & Elevation I. The Ellipse
Alex Mills, Samsara
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Leicester International Music Festival
Recital with harpist Anne Denholm
Leicester Museum, 1pm
Claude Debussy, Beau Soir
Nicola Lefanu, The Bourne
Darren Bloom, Second Fig
Kaija Saariaho, Il Pleut
Mared Emlyn, Perlau yn y Glaw: selected movements (solo harp)
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Lynne Plowman, The Mermaids’ Lagoon (solo harp)
Héloïse Werner, Unspecified Intentions (solo voice)
Héloïse Werner, Confessional (solo voice)
Kerry Andrew, Blackberry
NightMusic Recital
Recital with harpist Anne Denholm
St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 8pm
Claude Debussy, Beau Soir
Nicola Lefanu, The Bourne
Darren Bloom, Second Fig
Kaija Saariaho, Il Pleut
Niamh O’Donnell, new commission
Mared Emlyn, Perlau yn y Glaw: selected movements (solo harp)
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Lynne Plowman, The Mermaids’ Lagoon (solo harp)
Héloïse Werner, Unspecified Intentions (solo voice)
Héloïse Werner, Confessional (solo voice)
Kerry Andrew, Blackberry
Nash Inventions
Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm
Alexander Goehr, Combat of Joseph de la Reina and the Devil – for tenor voice, mezzo-soprano, two sopranos, piano and viola
Alexander Goehr, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – for soprano, clarinet and piano
Héloïse Werner, soprano
Emilia Bertolini, soprano
Clare Presland, mezzo soprano
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Alasdair Beatson, piano
Lars Anders Tomter, viola
Richard Hosford, clarinet
Bach Choir Album Launch
London Chamber Orchestra
Freya Waley-Cohen, Happiness, a Song Cycle – for soprano & orchestra
Conductor, Christopher Warren-Green
St John’s Smith Square, 7.30pm
Barber Series Lunchtime Concert
The Hermes Experiment
Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham, 1pm
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin Like a Flower
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets & Attente
Raymond Yiu, Written at Sunset
Lynne Plowman (arr. Pashley), Pedalling Man from A Field Guide to Pebbles
Philip Venables, A Photograph
Ruari Paterson-Achenbach, to sleep on it (selected movements)
Olivier Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Barnes Music Festival
OSO Arts Centre, 6pm & 8pm
Héloïse Werner (soprano/cello) & Colin Alexander (cello) perform:
Héloïse Werner & Colin Alexander, time//time (voice & cello)
Héloïse Werner, Unspecified Intensions (solo voice)
Héloïse Werner, Confessional (solo voice)
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody (solo voice)
Colin Alexander, Dotddotdot (solo cello)
Colin Alexander, Tourbillon (solo cello)
Oliver Leith, yhyhyhyhyh (voice & cello) – world premiere
Héloïse Werner & Colin Alexander, new work (voice & two cellos) – world premiere
CoMA Festival
Octagon, Queen Mary University of London, 7pm
Premiere of new work ‘Outside Phrases’, commissioned by CoMA, written in open score for the CoMA Festival
Melanie Wilson / Fuel Theatre
R & D in Manchester – 21st Feb – 25th Feb
Cuddigan Trust Concert
The Hermes Experiment
Blackheath Halls, London, 5pm
Tom Coult, I Find Planets
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Raymond Yiu, Written at Sunset
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
(this concert was rescheduled from 14 November 2021)
PLAYLIST
with musicians Colin Alexander, Bellatrix and poets Antosh Wojcik, Issa Farrah
MAST, Southampton, 7.30pm
Durham Vocal Festival
Cheltenham Music Society
The Hermes Experiment
Bethesda Methodist Church, Cheltenham, 3.30pm
Philip Venables, A Photograph
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Jeremy Thurlow, Quiet Songs
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Nicola LeFanu (arr. Denholm), The Bourne
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Lili Boulanger (arr. Pashley), Prelude in Db
Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
Robin Haigh, Kalimotxo
(this concert was rescheduled from 30th October 2021)
Lunchtime Recital
Recital with pianist Natalie Burch
University of Glasgow Concert Hall, 1.10pm
Works by Jonathan Woolgar, Héloïse Werner and more
BFE/RMA Conference
CoMA
Leading workshop for CoMA Young Composers, ‘My Sounds’ programme
11-1pm, Raw Material in Brixton
Composers workshop
Leeds Conservatoire
Workshopping new works written for The Hermes Experiment by composition students from Leeds Conservatoire
Composers workshop
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Workshopping new works written for EXAUDI by composition students from GSMD
Wigmore Hall
The Hermes Experiment
Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Attente
Nicola LeFanu, (arr. Denholm), The Bourne
Sylvia Lim, new commission
Lynne Plowman (arr. Pashley), Pedalling Man
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Stevie Wishart, Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound
Mira Calix , DMe
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Errollyn Wallen, gun gun gun
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm) Plan & Elevation
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
Emily Hall (arr. Pashley) Befalling
link
Blackheath Halls
The Hermes Experiment
Blackheath Halls, London, 5pm
Tom Coult, I Find Planets
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Raymond Yiu, Written at Sunset
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
SONG – album release
Release of The Hermes Experiment’s second album SONG on Delphian Records
Oxford Lieder Festival
The Hermes Experiment
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, 10pm
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets & Attente
Nicola LeFanu (arr. Denholm), The Bourne
Jeremy Thurlow, Quiet Songs
Tom Coult, I Find Planets
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Oxford Lieder Festival
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, 10pm
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston & baritone Michael Craddock perform Héloïse Werner’s The Orange Vendor
Album Recording
Héloïse will record her debut album with Delphian Records in Oxford 5-7 October
SONG
The Hermes Experiment
Kings Place, London, 6.30pm
Following the critical acclaim of their debut album HERE WE ARE, award-winning contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment release their second album, SONG, this Autumn on Delphian Records. The disc is an eclectic collection of song commissions written for the quartet and songs newly arranged by members of the ensemble from different styles and eras. This concert celebrates the launch of SONG, with pieces from the album as well as two new commissions by Laura Moody and Tom Coult.
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Philip Venables, A Photograph
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs (world premiere)
Tom Coult, I Find Planets (world premiere)
Robin Haigh, Kalimotxo
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Emily Hall (arr. Pashley), Befalling
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a Flower
Oliver Leith, Uh huh Yeah
Vic Hoyland 75th Birthday Concert
St Michael le Belfrey Church, York, 7.30pm
Heloise will be reciting poetry alongside Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis
West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival
Church of St Lawrence, West Wycombe, 7.30pm
Héloïse performs her piece Mixed Phrases with violist Lawrence Power alongside Barbara Strozzi’s ‘Che si puo fare’ (new arrangement for string quartet and soprano), Machaut, Brett Dean & more.
Boxgrove Choral Festival
Boxgrove Priory, Chichester, 2.30pm
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston & baritone Michael Craddock perform Héloïse Werner’s The Orange Vendor
Voix Nouvelles Academy
up close and musical
Fidelio Cafe, London, 6pm
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Something More Than Mortal
Héloïse Werner – new work for viola and soprano *world premiere – with Shiry Rashkovsky
George Aperghis – Récitation N. 3
Héloïse Werner – Unspecified intensions
George Aperghis – Récitation N. 8
Héloïse Werner – Confessional
Cample Line
Wigmore Hall
The Hermes Experiment
Wigmore Hall, London, 7.30pm
Giles Swayne – Chansons Devotes et Poissoneuses – first movement
Jeremy Thurlow – Quiet Songs
Cécile Chaminade (arr. Schofield) – La lune paresseuse and Ma première lettre
Lili Boulanger (arr. Pashley) – Prelude in Db
Josephine Stephenson – between the war and you
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm) – Fruit Songs
The Hermes Experiment – Bass Piece
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm) – Double Fiesta
BBC Radio 3 Broadcast
Broadcast of our SJSS concert with Kit Downes and Colin Alexander, BBC Radio 10pm
ROH workshops
Royal Opera House
11 & 12 July – workshopping a new opera: ‘History of the Present’ by Maria Fusco
Spitalfields Music Festival
SJSS Concert
St John’s Smith Square, London, 8pm
An evening of thoughtful and uplifting new music, spanning a variety of styles and traditions, performed by Héloı̈se Werner (soprano), Kit Downes (organ) and Colin Alexander (cello) who will be spaced at the extremes of the concert hall, surrounding the audience. Each performer will offer around twenty minutes of their own solo works, written since March 2020, and the programme will also feature five short text pieces written especially for the occasion by Errollyn Wallen, Shiva Feshareki, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jonathan Cole and Love Ssega.
In this atmospheric setting and glowing acoustic, the concert will bring together some of the most exciting creative voices on the scene. With spatially-distanced trio commissions, dazzling solo soprano works, bright and colourful organ music and peaceful cello compositions, this is a celebration of the importance of music and the arts today.
This concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.
ReSound series
The Hermes Experiment
St Martin’s in the Fields, 7pm
Ewan Campbell, London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives Op 22 Nos 1, 7, 8 and 16
Giles Swayne, Movement 3 from Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Olivia Chaney (arr. Schofield), Roman Holiday
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin Like a Flower
Wigmore Hall with Lawrence Power
Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm
World premiere of my new piece mixed phrases for viola/violin & voice, with Lawrence Power
Leeds Lieder Festival
The Hermes Experiment
Leeds Town Hall, 9.45pm
Errollyn Wallen, gun, gun, gun
Raymond Yiu, Written at Sunset
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw the Line
Emily Hall, I am happy Living Simply & The end of the ending
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets & Attente
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
+ Poetry by poets local to Leeds
Album Fundraising Concert
Living Room Live, 8pm (UK Time)
Héloïse is set to record a new album with Delphian Records in the Autumn (release in Spring 2022).This concert is an online fundraiser to raise the remaining of the funds needed for producing the album. More details about the whole project and how to donate HERE.
Georges Aperghis, Récitation n. 9 (solo voice)
Colin Alexander, Ton Papillon (world premiere – solo cello)
Héloïse Werner, Unspecified intensions (world premiere – solo voice)
Josephine Stephenson, Cut Hold (solo cello)
Werner/ Alexander, Improvised duo (voice and cello)
Festival Of New
Britten Pears Arts, Snape Maltings
New film by Nick Ryan from his Snape Maltings residency last year, featuring Héloïse on voice & cello
New Music Show
The Hermes Experiment
Broadcast of the second half of our session for BBC Radio 3 New Music Show, recorded last year in the Radio Theatre.
10pm on BBC Radio 3
Music from Ewan Campbell and Ruari Paterson-Achenbach
New Music Show
BBC Radio 3, 10pm
The Hermes Experiment perform music by Anna Meredith, Mira Calix and Joel Rust
Recorded last year in the BBC Radio Theatre for BBC Radio 3 New Music Show
Art Song Out of the Concert Hall
1pm – Round Table Q&A with Helen Charlston, Heloise Werner, Simon Lepper, Roderick Williams – Moderated by Natasha Loges (Royal College of Music, London)
Barber Concert
1pm – join us for the stream of The Hermes Experiment’s concert, recorded in the Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham on Monday 14 December for the Barber Concert Series.
Josephine Stephenson, Tanka
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Matthew Grouse, Daily Rituals (Movement II. Verisimilitude)
Mira Calix, DMe
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, yeah
Wigmore Hall recital
The Hermes Experiment
Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a Flower
Lili Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Reflets
Alex Mills, Samsara
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Helen Grime (arr. Pashley), Council Offices
Philip Venables, A Photograph
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply & The end of the ending
Oliver Leith, Uh Huh, Yeah
link
(this concert is available to watch on demand until 25th Feb)
The Hermes Experiment in Birmingham
Birmingham University
AM – Filming a recital for the Barber Concert Hall series (streamed online in 2021)
PM – workshopping 12 new pieces by students from Birmingham University
Live at ROSL
The Hermes Experiment
ROSL London Clubhouse, 6pm
We are delighted to be returning to ROSL in December to give a recital. Our programme will feature works by Freya Waley-Cohen, Errollyn Wallen, Graham Ross and Jeremy Thurlow as well as new arrangements of Clara Schumman and Lili Boulanger songs.
If you are unable to join us in person, this concert will be livestreamed, so register for a free place below for the online event.
Spitalfields Festival: At Home
SJSS Concert
POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021
St John’s Smith Square, London, 8pm
An evening of thoughtful and uplifting new music, spanning a variety of styles and traditions, performed by Héloı̈se Werner (soprano), Kit Downes (organ) and Colin Alexander (cello) who will be spaced at the extremes of the concert hall, surrounding the audience. Each performer will offer around twenty minutes of their own solo works, written over the last six months, and the programme will also feature five short text pieces written especially for the occasion by Errollyn Wallen, Shiva Feshareki, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jonathan Cole and Love Ssega.
In this atmospheric setting and glowing acoustic, the concert will bring together some of the most exciting creative voices on the scene. With spatially-distanced trio commissions, dazzling solo soprano works, bright and colourful organ music and peaceful cello compositions, this is a celebration of the importance of music and the arts today.
RWCMD Recital
with The Tippett Quartet, live-streamed from Cardiff – 7.30pm
Ravel, String Quartet, interspersed with Ravel songs (arr. Bozidar Vukotic and Héloïse Werner)
Freya Waley-Cohen, Spell Book (Volume 2)
Kate Whitley, 3 Charlotte Mew Settings
Women Shaping the World
Gender Equality in Classical and Contemporary Music
French Institute – tune in onto Facebook & YouTube at 6.30pm.
Join an exceptional live streamed panel dedicated to gender equality in classical and contemporary music organised in partnership with the Academy La Maestra and the Philharmonie de Paris, in the wake of the inaugural edition of the Maestra International Competition for Women Conductors last September, and as part of our ongoing strand, Women Shaping the World.
Maestra second prize winner, conductor Stéphanie Childress and composers Anne Lovett (Faber music), Angèle David-Guillou (laureate of Diaphonique, our Franco-British fund for contemporary music / Village Green), Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Manners McDade) and Héloïse Werner (The Hermes Experiment) will discuss their own perspective on equality and share updates about their careers in a panel chaired by BBC Radio 3 presenter Katie Derham and complemented by live musical interludes.
Michael Cuddigan Trust
The Hermes Experiment
Online broadcast, 5pm
Three new commissions from:
Eleanor Alberga, Deep Blue Sea
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Draw The Line
Raymond Yiu, Written at Sunset
Kerry Andrew (arr. Denholm), Fruit Songs
Lily Boulanger (arr. Schofield), Attente & Reflets
Ewan Campbell, London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives
Clara Schumann (arr. Pashley), Liebst du um Schönheit
This concert is generously supported by The Michael Cuddigan Trust.
London Sound Gallery
London Sound Gallery Festival, produced by The Gesualdo Six
Online broadcast, 5pm
The Hermes Experiment connect creative beginnings to nostalgic farewells and inevitable endings: works by Emily Hall, Errollyn Wallen and Alex Mills are performed alongside arrangements of pieces by Anna Meredith and Peter Maxwell Davies. Two new graphic scores by Anna Disley-Simpson and Jacob Fitzgerald, selected from a recent open ‘Call for Scores’, will be premiered by The Hermes Experiment and The Gesualdo Six in a collaborative performance.
Up Close and Music
POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021
Fidelio Cafe, London, 2.30pm
The Other Side of the Sea and Beyond
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Something More than Mortal
Héloïse Werner, The Other Side of the Sea (excerpts) – libretto by Octavia Bright
Georges Aperghis, Récitation N.9
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody
Oxford Lieder Festival
Live-streamed from Oxford, 10pm
The Hermes Experiment
Barbara Strozzi (arr. Werner), Tradimento
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Josephine Stephenson, Between the war and you
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ form A History of the Thé Dansant
Philip Venables, A photograph (world premiere) – text by Cordelia Lynn
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Joni Mitchell (arr. Pashley), Big Yellow Taxi
BBC Radio in Concert
BBC Radio, 7.30pm
The Hermes Experiment
Live broadcast from BBC Maida Vale Studios
Performing alongside Ashley Riches and Sholto Kynoch ahead of Oxford Lieder Festival.
London Sound Gallery
Grosvenor Chapel, London 3.30pm
part of London Sound Gallery Festival, produced by The Gesualdo Six
The Hermes Experiment connect creative beginnings to nostalgic farewells and inevitable endings: works by Emily Hall, Errollyn Wallen and Alex Mills are performed alongside arrangements of pieces by Anna Meredith and Peter Maxwell Davies. Two new graphic scores by Anna Disley-Simpson and Jacob Fitzgerald, selected from a recent open ‘Call for Scores’, will be premiered by The Hermes Experiment and The Gesualdo Six in a collaborative performance.
Grange Festival
Héloïse joins the cast of Precipice at The Grange Festival
Director – Sinéad O’Neill
Music Director – John Andrews
August | 21, 22, 23
Performance Times | 12pm, 1.30pm, 3.30pm and 5pm
Isolation Songbook
mezzo soprano Helen Charlston & baritone Michael Craddock perform Héloïse’s new work The Orange Vendor (words by Ali Lewis)
part of their Isolation Songbook project
City Music Foundation, Live Broadcast, 6pm
CoMA Summer School
26 & 29 July
Héloïse will be leading #coronasolfege sessions as part of the CoMA online Summer School 2020 – more details here (anyone is welcome to sign up!)
The Other of the Sea & Beyond
Solo performance at the Cockpit Theatre in partnership with DCMS & Tête a Tête Festival
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Something More than Mortal
Héloïse Werner, The Other Side of the Sea (excerpts) – libretto by Octavia Bright
Georges Aperghis, Récitation N.9
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody
Album release
Release of The Hermes Experiment debut album HERE WE ARE on Delphian Records – featuring works by Emily Hall, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Errollyn Wallen, Freya Waley-Cohen, Oliver Leith, Anna Meredith, Josephine Stephenson, Joel Rust and Giles Swayne.
Michael Cuddigan Trust
This live event is cancelled but the concert will now be streamed online on 28th July
Kate Whitley’s Six Charlotte Mew Settings performed by Héloïse and the Tippett Quartet
performed by The Hermes Experiment:
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Alfred Hopkins, new commission (in partnership with Aldeburgh Young Musicians, supported by the Michael Cuddigan Trust)
Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley) Farewell to stromness
Maurice Ravel (arr. Schofield) ‘Rigaudon’ from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm) Double Fiesta
This concert is presented by the Michael Cuddigan Trust
Radio 3 Home Session
BBC Radio 3, 10pm
Home Session from Héloïse Werner for BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show
new work Inside Shifts for voice/cello, written & performed by Héloïse
IDAGIO – Classical (R)evolution
Classical (R)evolution with Rachel: Héloïse Werner
7pm
Join Rachel Fenlon and special weekly guests as she explores in her weekly series what breaking the rules, embracing uncertainty, and thinking “outside the box” does for music-making within the classical music genre. In this episode: Héloïse Werner, soprano, composer, and Co-Director of the Hermes Experiment.
Living Room Live
Living Room Live recital – works for soprano & cello
The concert will be broadcast on the Living Room Live website, their Facebook Page and on Héloïse’s Facebook Page – 6pm GMT
Richard Barnard, Early Stroll 31.3.20 (world premiere)
Amy Stewart, Daffodowndilly
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Something More Than Mortal
Héloïse Werner, excerpts from The Other Side of the Sea
Vale of Glamorgan Festival
The Hermes Experiment
St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 1pm
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The end of the ending
Eloise Gynn, Good Morning Mr. Blackbird
Giles Swayne , Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses, movement I
Stevie Wishart, Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound
Helen Woods, new work
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Adderbury Music
Adderbury Church, 7.30pm
Programme with The Tippett Quartet including a new work by Freya Waley-Cohen
Oxford Coffee Concert
Holywell Room, Oxford, 11:15am
Programme with The Tippett Quartet including a new work by Freya Waley-Cohen
Imperial College Lunchtime Concert
Imperial College, London, 1pm
with The Tippett Quartet
works by Schubert, Holst & Freya Waley-Cohen
Almanac Live
POSTPONED
St George’s, Bristol , 7.30pm
Lia Leendertz’ indispensible seasonal guides reinvent the tradition of the rural almanac for a new audience. Composer Richard Barnard will transform her 2020 Almanac into a moon-themed evening of music and spoken word, blending new arrangements of the Almanac’s folk songs featuring virtuosic performer Héloïse Werner, readings from the book by the author and Three Cane Whale’s cinematic instrumentals.
AYM
(CANCELLED)
13-17 April – Snape Maltings
Aldeburgh Young Musicians explore opera alongside a group of opera practitioners – composer Tom Coult, writer Cordelia Lynn, writer- director Gareth Mattey, soprano-composer Héloïse Werner and baritone Peter Braithwaite. They ask what opera means now and what it could be in the future, by acting as composers, librettists, directors and performers.
In this Open Session on 17 April, 5pm, AYM present their own brand-new operatic scenes, built from the ground up
Living Room Live
Héloïse performs a recital of solo voice works live from her living room!
The concert will be broadcast on the Living Room Live website, on the LRL Facebook Page and on Héloïse’s Facebook Page – 6pm GMT
Ewan Campbell, Glynde
Héloïse Werner, Confessional
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody
Georges Aperghis, Récitation N.9
Devon Song Festival
Trinity Laban
CANCELLED
The Hermes Experiment
St Alfege, 1pm
Performing new works by postgraduate composition students from Trinity Laban as well as music by Errollyn Wallen, Ewan Campbell, Matthew Grouse & Oliver Leith.
PRS for Music
POSTPONED
Speaker on PRS for Music panel on funding & fundraising for composers and new music ensemble – alongside Errollyn Wallen (composer), Louise Cleverdon (Arts Council England) and Elizabeth Sills (PRS Foundation).
PRS for Music, King’s Cross, London
Birthstrike Opera
Snape Maltings residency
R & D – 9 & 10 March
As part of composer Nick Ryan’s Snape Maltings residency at the BT Acoustic Laboratory
Fenella Humphreys
Violinist Fenella Humphreys performs her Caprice programme, including Héloïse’s new (very short) Variation For Fenella.
, London
Tippett Quartet
Conway Hall, London, 6.30pm
With the Tippett Quartet
New commission by Freya Waley-Cohen for soprano & string quartet
New arrangement of Poulenc’s La Courte Paille for soprano & string quartet
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 InTune with Tippett Quartet (performing Poulenc and Freya Waley-Cohen)
RCM
The Hermes Experiment
Open workshop & masterclass, performing new works by student composers from the Royal College of Music.
Anders Hillborg
Soho Radio
Guest on Max Reinhardt’s lunchtime show on Soho Radio
Bristol Pre-Conservatoire – harp & voice
Members of The Hermes Experiment visit students at Bristol Pre-Conservatoire as part of their series on contemporary music this term & perform music for soprano & harp by Kerry Andrew, Darren Bloom, Nicola Lefanu and Kaija Saariaho.
Trinity Laban
The Hermes Experiment
Trinity Laban
Workshop for composition postgraduate students from Trinity Laban.
USE workshop
United Strings of Europe in parternship with Together Productions
Workshop with refugees and asylum seekers in Tilbury, Essex
Unfinished Journey Tour
Conway Hall, London, 7.30pm
Golijov, Three Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra
United Strings of Europe
Director: Julian Azkoul, violin
Unfinished Journey Tour
Assembly Hall, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 8pm
Golijov, Three Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra
United Strings of Europe
Director: Julian Azkoul, violin
Unfinished Journey Tour
Brummana High School, Brummana, Lebanon, 7.30pm
Golijov, Three Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra (Lebanese Premiere)
United Strings of Europe
Director: Julian Azkoul, violin
RCM
The Hermes Experiment
RCM
2nd workshop for composition students from the Royal College of Music.
Grantham Music Club
The Hermes Experiment
ChristChurch Finkin Street, Grantham, 7.30pm
Claude Debussy (arr. Schofield, Werner, Pashley), Fantoches, Mandoline & Reverie
Ewan Campbell, London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply & The end of the ending
Josephine Stephenson, Between the War and You
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Millwood), I Hate Music!
George Gershwin (arr. Pashley), I Got Rhythm
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Composers Workshop
Composition workshop for Royal Holloway University students with mezzo Lucy Goddard and harpist Olivia Jageurs
Sunday Music
Omnibus Theatre, London, 7.30pm
Recital with pianist Natalie Burch
Benjamin Britten, Les Illuminations
Jonathan Woolgar, new work
Héloïse Werner, new work
This project is generously supported by Wild Plum Arts in partnership with the Britten-Pears Foundation, and the Hinrichsen Foundation.
RPS Awards
Performance at the RPS Awards with The Hermes Experiment (recorded for BBC Radio 3)
The Night With
The Hermes Experiment
Belmont Cinema Bar, Aberdeen
Music by Anna Meredith, Emiliy Hall, Josephine Stephenson, Robin Haigh, Meredith Monk + new commissions by Matthew Grouse and the winner of the call for scores
The Night With
The Hermes Experiment
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Music by Anna Meredith, Emily Hall, Josephine Stephenson, Robin Haigh, Meredith Monk + new commissions by Matthew Grouse and the winner of the call for scores
The Night With
The Hermes Experiment
Hug and Pint, Glasgow
Music by Anna Meredith, Emily Hall, Josephine Stephenson, Robin Haigh, Meredith Monk + new commissions by Matthew Grouse and the winner of the call for scores
The Night With
The Hermes Experiment
Workshop, Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow
5 new works selected from “The Night With” call for scores
Britten’s Birthday Concert
The Red House, Aldeburgh
Recital with pianist Natalie Burch
Benjamin Britten, Les Illuminations
Jonathan Woolgar, new work
Héloïse Werner, new work
This project is generously supported by Wild Plum Arts in partnership with the Britten-Pears Foundation, and the Hinrichsen Foundation.
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Hermes Experiment
HCMF, St Paul’s Hall, 12.30pm
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
The Hermes Experiment, Bass Piece
Joel Rust, Pack of Orders
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Yeah
SHARDS
Chats Palace, 7.30pm
RCM Composers Project (1/3)
In 2019/20, The Hermes Experiment are working with student composers from the RCM – this will be their first workshop with them.
Boulevard Theatre
The Hermes Experiment
Boulevard Theatre, Soho, 2pm
Anna Meredith (arr. Schofield), Fin like a Flower
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Josephine Stephenson, Between the war and you
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Yeah
Robin Haigh, Kalimotxo
Alexander Mosolov (arr. Pashley), Four Newspaper Advertisements, Op. 21
Joel Rust, Pack of Orders
Aylesbury Lunchtime Music
St Mary’s Church, Aylesbury, 12.45pm
Recital with pianist Natalie Burch
Benjamin Britten, Les Illuminations
Jonathan Woolgar, new work
Héloïse Werner, new work
This project is generously supported by Wild Plum Arts in partnership with the Britten-Pears Foundation, and the Hinrichsen Foundation.
SHARDS
Zemlinka Festival, Latvia
Album Recording
9-13 October
The Hermes Experiment record their debut album in Edinburgh for release in 2020 on Delphian Records.
Birmingham Lunchtime Concert
Concert Hall, Barber Institute, Birmingham, 1pm
The Hermes Experiment
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta
Errollyn Wallen, gun gun gun
The Hermes Experiment, new work
Robin Haigh, Kalimotxo
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Oliver Leith, Uh huh, Yeah
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with double bassist Marianne Schofield responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
Composers Workshop
‘Writing for the voice’ workshop for postgraduate composition students from Trinity Laban.
(in Feb-March 2020, The Hermes Experiment will workshop & perform new pieces by Trinity Laban composition students).
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with violinist Mandhira de Saram responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with violinist Mandhira de Saram responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
City of London Sinfonia
Soprano with City of London Sinfonia
Dzijan Emin, conductor
Derrick May and The Orchestra
Royal Festival Hall, London, 7.30pm
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with clarinetist Oliver Pashley responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with clarinetist Oliver Pashley responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with clarinetist Oliver Pashley responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with double bassist Marianne Schofield responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
Chihuly Nights
Chihuly Nights, Kew Gardens (Temperate House)
Live improvisation with double bassist Marianne Schofield responding to a new work by Nico Muhly – commissioned by Guest Artists.
BBC Proms Inspire Day
Made at the Red House Residency
5-12 August
Residency at The Red House, Aldeburgh (Wild Plum Arts, in association with Britten-Pears Foundation)
Writing a new work for soprano & piano which I will perform with pianist Natalie Burch in 2019/20.
This Classical Life
This Classical Life with Jess Gillam, BBC Radio 3, 12.30pm
Club Inégales
Guest artist at Club Inégales’ Women’s Voices curated by by Jasmin Kent Rodgman
performing solo voice works by Monk, Aperghis and me + improvisation sets with the Club Inégales band
Club Inégales, 7pm
Hermes Create
Cafe OTO, 7.30pm
After their debut appearance at Cafe OTO in 2018, the award-winning contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment return with an evening of music entirely improvised and devised by the ensemble. The event is a culmination of months of developing and honing new material, including residencies generously supported by Help Musicians UK, PRS for Music Foundation and Hinrichsen Foundation.
ROSL Gold Medal Final
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, 7pm
The Hermes Experiment perform at the ROSL Gold Medal Final
Concert Jeunes Talents
Mezzo-soprano Marielou Jacquard and pianist Kunal Lahiry premiere Héloïse’s new piece Le Cœur Crucifié at Petit Palais, Paris
Sound Unbound Festival
Alex Ho, Upon brick (for solo soprano) – commissioned by Musicity for recording by Héloïse Werner and release at Sound Unbound 2019, Barbican Centre (details tba)
ClassicalNEXT
The Hermes Experiment are one of the Showcase Artists at the ClassicalNEXT conference 2019, Rotterdam
12.45pm, Eduard Flipse Zaal, de Doelen
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply & The end of the ending
Alex Mills, Samsara
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
rough for opera
RAM Composers’ Project
The Royal Academy of Music, 7pm
The Hermes Experiment perform new works by composition masters’ students from the Royal Academy of Music
Venus Unwrapped
Kings Place, Hall 2, 8pm
Héloïse performs her solo opera exploring language and identity, “The Other Side Of The Sea”, written in collaboration with poet Octavia Bright, visual artist Jessie Rodger and director Emily Burns. The concert also features The Hermes Experiment in a programme of works by Freya Waley-Cohen, Mira Calix, Stevie Wishart, Meredith Monk and The Hermes Experiment.
Composers workshop
Composers workshop with award-winning vocal trio Juice Vocal Ensemble
Cardiff University
Dyfed Young Composers
Trinity Laban Composers Project
The Hermes Experiment
Blackheath Halls, 6pm
The Hermes Experiment peform new works from Trinity Laban Postgraduate Composers.
ROSL Final
The Hermes Experiment perform in the finals of the ROSL Annual Music Competition 2019 (Mixed Ensemble Category)
ROSL Semi-Finals
The Hermes Experiment perform in the semi-finals of the ROSL Annual Music Competition 2019 (Mixed Ensemble Category)
After Hours
The Hermes Experiment
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 9.45pm
Joseph Davies, Hymn to Hermes
Josephine Stephenson , tanka
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta
Maurice Ravel (arr. Schofield), Le tombeau de Couperin
Robin Haigh, New commission (world premiere)
Aylesbury Lunchtime Music
The Hermes Experiment
St Mary Virgin, Aylesbury, 12.45pm
Works by Errollyn Wallen, Ewan Campbell, Josephine Stephenson, Robin Haigh, Meredith Monk and Ravel
School Workshop
The Hermes Experiment are delighted to be expanding their work in schools as part of their 5th Birthday Project. They will be working on composition and improvisation with students in Years 12 and 13 from Impington Village College.
RAM Composers Project
The Hermes Experiment workshop new pieces by Postgraduate Composers from the Royal Academy of Music
10am-1pm, RAM
Hermes Residency
4-7 February
The Hermes Experiment undertake a residency in Cambridge, working on new material & improvisation, which will lead to a concert at Cafe OTO on 4 June 2019.
Residency showcase concert at Murray Edwards College, 7.30pm on 7th Feb.
Project supported by Hinrichsen Foundation & PRSF.
Macbeth
Macbeth
Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
Trinity Laban Composers Project
The Hermes Experiment workshop new pieces by postraduate composition students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire.
10am-1pm, Trinity Laban
Macbeth
Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
SoundState Festival
The Hermes Experiment
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, 6pm
Works by Jeremy Thurlow, Eloise Gynn and world premiere by Benjamin Graves (Park Lane Group commission)
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
5th Birthday Concert
The Hermes Experiment
Crypt on the Green, London
New commissions from Oliver Leith and Errollyn Wallen
Hermes commissions from the past 5 years by Josephine Stephenson, Stevie Wishart, William Cole, Giles Swayne, Emily Hall, Misha Mullov-Abbado as well as our collaborative piece with poet Ali Lewis
DJ sets by BBC Radio 3 Late Junction presenter Nick Luscombe
Generously supported by Arts Council England and RVW Trust
This concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for later broadcast on the Hear & Now programme (broadcast date tba).
BBC Radio 3 – InTune
Live performance + interview on BBC Radio 3 ahead of The Hermes Experiment’s 5th Birthday Concert
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
MD & Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
School Workshops
The Hermes Experiment are delighted to be expanding their work in schools as part of their 5th Birthday Project! They will be working on composition and improvisation with students in Years 12 and 13.
Bolingbroke Academy (morning) and Whitmore High School (afternooon)
Macbeth
CHC Christmas Concert
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
Composition workshop
Composition workshop for Royal Holloway University students with mezzo Lucy Goddard and harpist Anne Denholm.
RWCMD
The Hermes Experiment
RWCMD, 1.15pm
Jeremy Thurlow, Quiet Songs
Joseph Davies, Hymn to Hermes
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The end of the ending
Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
Alex Mills, Saṃsāra
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
The concert will also be followed by a masterclass in the afternoon.
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
Macbeth
Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Singer in Macbeth, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe – 2pm & 7.30pm
Music by Laura Moody
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth
Other Worlds
Giacinto Scelsi, Uaxuctum – Soprano II soloist
London Contemporary Orchestra & Choir
Barbican Hall, 7.30pm
Bechstein Sessions
The Hermes Experiment
Wigmore Hall, 5.45pm
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Mira Calix, DMe
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply & The end of the ending
Maurice Ravel (arr. Schofield), Le tombeau de Couperin (extracts)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Harp on Wight Festival
The Hermes Experiment
All Saints Church, Ryde, The Isle of Wight, 7.30pm
Josephine Stephenson, Between the War and You
Steve Williams, Postlude Canon
The Hermes Experiment, A response to Valentini
J.S. Bach (arr. Pashley & Schofield), Preludes in C# minor, F minor & D Major
J.S. Bach (arr. W.Cole), Seufzer, Tränen
Handel (arr. Werner), Endless Pleasure
The Coach House Company
Composition workshop
Leading a workshop on writing for the voice – for Trinity Laban postgraduate composition students
Trinity Laban Conservatoire
Herne Hill Festival
Solo set at Herne Hill Festival, The Half Moon, 8pm
performing works for solo voice and cello/voice by Ewan Campbell, Amy Stewart, Georges Aperghis, Cathy Berberian and me.
Sharing the bill with Bastard Assignments
Swansea Festival
Soprano with Polyphony Choir
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Nawr Yr Awr / Now The Hero – An Immersive Requiem
A musical element forms the core of this site-responsive theatre project. This will be an immersive requiem, scored by twice Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer Johann Jóhannsson (‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Sicario’ and ‘Arrival’) in collaboration with budding Welsh composer Owen Morgan Roberts. The libretto will be written by BAFTA Cymru winning writer Owen Sheers (‘Mametz’ and ‘The Passion’) and sung by Polyphony – Stephen Layton’s world famous Grammy winning choir.
Swansea Festival
Soprano with Polyphony Choir
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Nawr Yr Awr / Now The Hero – An Immersive Requiem
A musical element forms the core of this site-responsive theatre project. This will be an immersive requiem, scored by twice Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer Johann Jóhannsson (‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Sicario’ and ‘Arrival’) in collaboration with budding Welsh composer Owen Morgan Roberts. The libretto will be written by BAFTA Cymru winning writer Owen Sheers (‘Mametz’ and ‘The Passion’) and sung by Polyphony – Stephen Layton’s world famous Grammy winning choir.
Swansea Festival
Soprano with Polyphony Choir
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Nawr Yr Awr / Now The Hero – An Immersive Requiem
A musical element forms the core of this site-responsive theatre project. This will be an immersive requiem, scored by twice Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer Johann Jóhannsson (‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Sicario’ and ‘Arrival’) in collaboration with budding Welsh composer Owen Morgan Roberts. The libretto will be written by BAFTA Cymru winning writer Owen Sheers (‘Mametz’ and ‘The Passion’) and sung by Polyphony – Stephen Layton’s world famous Grammy winning choir.
Swansea Festival
Soprano with Polyphony Choir
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Nawr Yr Awr / Now The Hero – An Immersive Requiem
A musical element forms the core of this site-responsive theatre project. This will be an immersive requiem, scored by twice Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer Johann Jóhannsson (‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Sicario’ and ‘Arrival’) in collaboration with budding Welsh composer Owen Morgan Roberts. The libretto will be written by BAFTA Cymru winning writer Owen Sheers (‘Mametz’ and ‘The Passion’) and sung by Polyphony – Stephen Layton’s world famous Grammy winning choir.
Swansea Festival
Soprano with Polyphony Choir
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Nawr Yr Awr / Now The Hero – An Immersive Requiem
A musical element forms the core of this site-responsive theatre project. This will be an immersive requiem, scored by twice Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer Johann Jóhannsson (‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Sicario’ and ‘Arrival’) in collaboration with budding Welsh composer Owen Morgan Roberts. The libretto will be written by BAFTA Cymru winning writer Owen Sheers (‘Mametz’ and ‘The Passion’) and sung by Polyphony – Stephen Layton’s world famous Grammy winning choir.
BBC Radio 3 Broadcast
BBC Radio 3, 10pm: broadcast of our Open Ear concert, 30 June 2018, LSO St Luke’s
The Hermes Experiment
Programme:
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta
Joel Rust, Pack of Orders
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Dyfed Young Composers
17-21 September
The Hermes Experiment are excited to be working as the ensemble in residence with the 2018-2019 Dyfed Young Composers project, giving workshops and school performances across the Three Counties of South West Wales.
Tender Symmetry
Singer with SHARDS for Michael Price’s album launch “Tender Symmetry”
Kings Place, London, 8.30pm
BBC Proms Inspire Day
Soprano for Proms Inspire Day
10.30-4pm, Imperial College Union
BBC Proms Inspire Day will bring together young composers aged 12 to 18 from across the UK to take part in a range of activities including song-writing, improvisation and score-based composition.
The Hermes Experiment – residency
16-21 August
The Hermes Experiment undertake a residency in France under the mentorship of composer and cellist Zoë Martlew, with generous support from Help Musicians UK.
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
The Barrington Hippo, a children’s opera by Kate Whitley & Sinéad O’Neill
Kings Place, 12pm & 2pm
Shadow-painting, Sally Todd
Storytelling, Steve Tiplady
Soprano, Héloïse Werner
Cello, Corentin Chassard
Sound and Music Summer School
5-11 August
The Purcell School of Music
Tutor on the Sound and Music Summer School, workshopping & performing new works by young composers
Curious Arts Festival
Solo set for The Great Brain Robbery at Curious Arts Festival
Spitalfields Music in the City series
A Lunchtime Concert for Voices and Harp
Drapers’ Hall, 1pm
Soprano Héloïse Werner, mezzo-soprano Lucy Goddard and harpist Anne Denholm present an innovative and diverse programme of works by women composers for solo voice, solo harp, and voice and harp. The featured composers will include Kerry Andrew, Sally Beamish, Nicola Lefanu, Elizabeth Maconchy, Kaija Saariaho and Barbara Strozzi.
Kerry Andrew, Apple & Blackberries (mezzo & harp)
Sally Beamish, Awuya (solo harp)
Nicola Lefanu, The Bourne (sop & harp)
Elizabeth Maconchy, Butterflies (mezzo & harp)
Kaija Saariaho, Il Pleut (sop & harp)
Héloïse Werner, Errollyn Confessional (solo sop)
New work devised by Héloïse, Lucy and Anne, based on the work of Barbara Strozzi (sop, mezzo & harp)
The Barrington Hippo
The Barrington Hippo, a children’s opera by Kate Whitley & Sinéad O’Neill
St Andrew’s School, Soham
Shadow-painting, Sally Todd
Storytelling, Steve Tiplady
Soprano, Héloïse Werner
Cello, Corentin Chassard
Cheltenham Festival
The Other Side Of The Sea
Aldeburgh Parish Church, 7pm
The Other Side Of The Sea is a new one-woman opera about language, memory and identity. Inspired by Héloïse’s experience of adopting English as a second language, it uses the central metaphor of the sea to explore the tension of an identity split linguistically, in this case between French and English. This unconventional piece layers poetry, music, and moving images to articulate the way the mind retains fragments of text, image, and sound at different levels of consciousness.
The project is generously supported by the Michael Cuddigan Trust and was developed during a Snape Maltings residency under the mentorship of cellist and composer Zoë Martlew.
Héloïse Werner, performer / composer
Octavia Bright, writer
Emily Burns, director
Jessie Rodger, filmmaker
The first half of the concert will also feature my contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment performing music by Dominic Wills, Kate Whitley, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Maxwell Davies.
The Other Side Of The Sea
The Cockpit Theatre, London, 8pm
The Other Side Of The Sea is a new one-woman opera about language, memory and identity. Inspired by Héloïse’s experience of adopting English as a second language, it uses the central metaphor of the sea to explore the tension of an identity split linguistically, in this case between French and English. This unconventional piece layers poetry, music, and moving images to articulate the way the mind retains fragments of text, image, and sound at different levels of consciousness.
The project is generously supported by the Michael Cuddigan Trust and was developed during a Snape Maltings residency under the mentorship of cellist and composer Zoë Martlew.
Héloïse Werner, performer / composer
Octavia Bright, writer
Emily Burns, director
Jessie Rodger, filmmaker
BBC Radio 3 Open Ear
The Hermes Experiment
Lso St Luke’s, 7pm
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta
Joel Rust, Pack of Orders
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3
In Tune, BBC Radio 3 – live performances and interviews
Clair de Lune, Fantoches and Mandoline by Debussy with Anna Tilbrook
Extract from The Other Side of the Sea
Interview with writer Octavia Bright
Owen Ralph presents Chamber Folk
Lunchtime Recital
performing works by Debussy, Britten and Bernstein with pianist Imma Setiadi
Old Royal Naval Chapel, Greenwich, 1pm
Cafe OTO
The Hermes Experiment
Cafe OTO, London, 7.30pm
New commissions by Alex Mills and Mira Calix
Graphic score by Eloise Gynn
Christian Wolff, Six Nocturnes
John Cage, In a Landscape
John Cage, Composition for 3 Voices
John Cage, Four6
This concert is generously supported by the RVW Trust and PRS for Music Foundation.
Barbara Hannigan Masterclass
Héloïse has been selected to participate in Barbara Hannigan’s Masterclass at Trinity Laban, 2.30pm
(performing arias by Adams & Debussy)
Multi-Story Orchestra
Debussy Festival
“Debussy and Spain” – curated by Eugene Asti
Peacock Room, Trinity Laban, 7.30pm
Performing songs by Debussy from Fête Galantes with pianist Imma Setiadi
Hermes at Southbank Centre
The Hermes Experiment
Royal Festival Hall Foyer, Southbank Centre, 1pm
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The end of the ending
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Freya Waley-Cohen, Oyster
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm), Double Fiesta
Debussy (arr. Pashley), Voiles
Peter Maxwell Davies (arr. Pashley), Farewell to Stromness
IAMA
The Hermes Experiment
Showcase performance at IAMA (International Artist Managers’ Association) Conference
PRS, 2 Pancras Square, 5.30pm
Kate Whitley, My Hands
Freya Waley-Cohen, Oyster
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The end of the ending
Leeds Lieder Festival – Young Artists
19-22 April
Héloïse and duo partner pianist Imma Setiadi have been selected as Leeds Lieder Young Artists for the Leeds Lieder Festival 2018.
They will perform in masterclasses with both John Mark Ainsley and Sir Thomas Allen, and at the Young Artists concerts throughout the festival.
Their programme includes works by Debussy, Poulenc, Britten and Mendelssohn
Le Chant des Enfants des Etoiles
Philharmonia Voices
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Unsuk Chin, Le Chant des Enfants des Etoiles
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Polyphony
Trinity Laban Composers’ Project Concert
The Hermes Experiment
St Alfege Church, Greenwich, 1pm
Lunchtime concert, performing new works by Trinity Laban postgraduate composition students
Opera Scenes
Iphigenie in Iphigenie en Aulide by Gluck (Trinity Laban Postgraduate Opera Scenes)
Blackheath Great Hall
Director, Christopher Lane
Musical directors, Kelvin Lim and Robert Bottriell
Juice Vocal Ensemble
Royal College of Music, 11.30am
Héloïse joins vocal trio Juice to perform new pieces composed by students from the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music
Phaedra Ensemble – VOX 04
Soprano soloist with Phaedra Ensemble
Juju’s bar & stage, Truman Brewery, 7pm
Jamie Hamilton – New Commission
Cassandra miller – Bel Canto
Plumstead Peculiar
The Hermes Experiment
The Ascension Church, Plumstead, 4pm
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The end of the ending
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Ewan Campbell, London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Gershwin, I Got Rhythm (arr. Pashley)
Rodney Bennett, Slow Foxtrot (arr. Pashley)
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Cambridge City Opera
Soprano soloist in The Barrington Hippo
Composer: Kate Whitley
Director: Sinéad ONeill
The Sedwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, 11am and 2pm
Sprint Festival
Performing excerpts from my new one-woman show The Other Side of the Sea (work-in-progress) at Sprint Festival 2018, Camden People’s Theatre, London (premiere will be in July 2018, details TBA soon)
Performer / composer: Héloïse Werner
Writer: Octavia Bright
Filmmaker: Jessie Rodger
Director: Emily Burns
Royal Academy of Music Composer’s Project Concert
The Hermes Experiment
David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, 7pm
New works by RAM composition students, on poems by Gillian Clarke
Foundling Museum
The Hermes Experiment
The Foundling Museum, 3pm
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Kate Whitley, My Hands
Bach, ‘Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not’ (arr. Cole)
Handel, “Endless Pleasure” from Semele (arr. Werner)
Debussy, Mandoline (arr. Werner) and Fantoche (arr. Schofield)
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Rachmaninov (arr. Denholm), Fragments, op. posth
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of the Thé Dansant
Don McLean, “Vincent” (arr. Denholm)
New semi-improvised piece based on one of the paintings in the gallery
NightMusic at St David’s Hall
The Hermes Experiment
St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 8pm
New commission from Joseph Davies
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The end of the ending
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Bernstein, I hate Music! A Cycle of Five Kids Songs
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
Prokofiev, Visions Fugitives, Nos 1, 3, 7 And 16 (arr. Schofield)
Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness
Tour to Scotland
The Hermes Experiment – Tunnell Trust Tour to Scotland
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles, 2.30pm
Debussy, Mandoline (arr. Werner) and Fantoche (arr. Schofield)
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of the Thé Dansant
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Rachmaninov (arr. Denholm), Fragments, op. posth
Arrangement of Loch Tay Boat Song + Scottish reel
Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Millwood), I Hate Music!
Tour to Scotland
The Hermes Experiment – Tunnell Trust Tour to Scotland
St John’s Church, Dumfries, 7.30pm
Debussy, Mandoline (arr. Werner) and Fantoche (arr. Schofield)
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of the Thé Dansant
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Rachmaninov (arr. Denholm), Fragments, op. posth
Arrangement of Loch Tay Boat Song + Scottish reel
Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Millwood), I Hate Music!
Tour to Scotland
The Hermes Experiment – Tunnell Trust Tour to Scotland
Falkirk Town Hall, 7.30pm
Debussy, Mandoline (arr. Werner) and Fantoche (arr. Schofield)
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of the Thé Dansant
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Rachmaninov (arr. Denholm), Fragments, op. posth
Arrangement of Loch Tay Boat Song + Scottish reel
Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Millwood), I Hate Music!
Tour to Scotland
The Hermes Experiment – Tunnell Trust Tour to Scotland
University of Glasgow
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of the Thé Dansant
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness
New piece by a student from the University of Glasgow
Tour to Scotland
The Hermes Experiment – Tunnell Trust Tour to Scotland
St Andrew’s Hall, Strathearn Terrace, 7.30pm
Debussy, Mandoline (arr. Werner) and Fantoche (arr. Schofield)
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of the Thé Dansant
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Rachmaninov (arr. Denholm), Fragments, op. posth
Arrangement of Loch Tay Boat Song + Scottish reel
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Millwood), I Hate Music
Tour to Scotland
The Hermes Experiment – Tunnell Trust Tour to Scotland
Skye Chamber Music, Isle of Skye, 8pm
Debussy, Mandoline (arr. Werner) and Fantoche (arr. Schofield)
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Richard Rodney Bennett (arr. Pashley), ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of the Thé Dansant
Soosan Lolavar, Mah Didam
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives no. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Rachmaninov (arr. Denholm), Fragments, op. posth
Arrangement of Loch Tay Boat Song + Scottish reel
Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Millwood), I Hate Music!
Tour to Scotland
The Hermes Experiment – Tunnell Trust Tour to Scotland
University of Glasgow, 9.30am
Workshop with composition students
Juice Vocal Ensemble
Héloïse joins vocal trio Juice for their first visit to the compositional team at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music (workshops and returning at a later date to perform pieces composed by students).
Trinity School Croydon
Trinity Laban Composers’ Project
The Hermes Experiment
Workshop with postgraduate composition students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. This project will culminate in a showcase concert on 29th March 2018.
Recital with Anne Denholm
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Programme including works by Debussy, Darren Bloom and Schumann/Denholm/Werner
Royal Academy of Music Composers’ Project
The Hermes Experiment visit the Royal Academy of Music for their first workshop with student composers on the Master’s programme, who are working on new settings for the ensemble on poetry by Gillian Clarke. This project culminates in a showcase concert at the RAM on 8th March 2018.
Philharmonia Voices
The Coach House Company Christmas Concert
The Water Rats, 7pm
The Coach House Company return with their annual Christmas shindig. Expect new takes on old carols, old takes on new(er) seasonal songs and bucketfuls of Christmas cheer. Sold out for the last 3 years in a row, Christmas just would not be Christmas without this fun-filled festive folky fun!
Spitalfields Festival
Performer in Schumann Street
Huguenot Homes of Spitalfields, 5 & 7.30pm
Schumann Street is an ambitious staging and (re)interpretation of Schumann’s iconic song cycle: Dichterliebe. Set across the stunning Huguenot Houses of Spitalfields, each of the 16 songs in Schumann’s cycle will be performed by a different artist drawn from a wide range of stylistic backgrounds including Bengali folk, rap, classical, soul and jazz.
Create your own path through this immersive song-cycle installation and experience intimate performances close-up. This is house music in its original form.
Performers:
Bryan Benner | Sam Beste | Liam Byrne | Uri Caine | Mara Carlyle | Rahel Debebe-Desselegne | Anne Denholm | Abimaro | Lisa Hannigan | Topi Lehtipuu | Katherine Manley | Phil Minton | James McVinnie | Robert Murray | Alex Reeve | Shapla Salique | Saied Silbak | Aart Strootman | Heloise Werner | Apollo 47 and more…
Spitalfields Festival
Performer in Schumann Street
Huguenot Homes of Spitalfields, 5 & 7.30pm
Schumann Street is an ambitious staging and (re)interpretation of Schumann’s iconic song cycle: Dichterliebe. Set across the stunning Huguenot Houses of Spitalfields, each of the 16 songs in Schumann’s cycle will be performed by a different artist drawn from a wide range of stylistic backgrounds including Bengali folk, rap, classical, soul and jazz.
Create your own path through this immersive song-cycle installation and experience intimate performances close-up. This is house music in its original form.
Performers:
Bryan Benner | Sam Beste | Liam Byrne | Uri Caine | Mara Carlyle | Rahel Debebe-Desselegne | Anne Denholm | Abimaro | Lisa Hannigan | Topi Lehtipuu | Katherine Manley | Phil Minton | James McVinnie | Robert Murray | Alex Reeve | Shapla Salique | Saied Silbak | Aart Strootman | Heloise Werner | Apollo 47 and more…
Spitalfields Festival
The Hermes Experiment
The House of Monteverdi at Shoreditch Church (St Leonard’s), 5-9.30pm
World premiere by Josephine Stephenson + new devised piece by The Hermes Experiment.
Roy Pleasance Competition Final
Peacock Room, Trinity Laban
Mozart, “Se il padre perdei” from Idomeneo
Debussy, “Oh, cette pierre est lourde” from Pelléas et Mélisande
Stravinsky, Three Japanese Lyrics
Massenet, “Frères! Voyez!” from Werther
accompanied by Imma Setiadi
Sound Ways – International New Music Festival
The Hermes Experiment
Hall of Composers Union (Mountferrain Palais), St Petersburg, Russia
Joel Rust, Pack of orders
Timothy Salter, The blood-dimmed tide
Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment, The First Spring Concert of Universal Futurism
Deborah Pritchard, Kandinsky Studies
+ three new commissions by Russian composers.
This project is supported by The Future of Russia Foundation and RVW Trust.
Shadwell Opera
Daylight Music
The Hermes Experiment
Daylight Music at Union Chapel, 12pm
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Emily Hall, I am happy living simply and The end of the ending
Three arrangements by Oliver Pashley :
Gershwin, I Got Rhythm
Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
Rodney Bennett, Slow Foxtrot
As part of EFG London Jazz Festival
The Moth Requiem
Casa da Música, Porto, 6pm
Harrison Birtwistle, The Moth Requiem for 12 female voices, three harps and alto flute
Conductor, Gregory Rose
St Martin-in-the-Fields Recital
Recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1pm
with pianist Imma Setiadi
Mozart, “Se il padre perdei” from Idomeneo
Debussy, “Oh, cette pierre est lourde” from Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy, Mandoline, Fantoches & Nuit D’Etoiles
Stravinsky, Three Japanese Lyrics
Bernstein, I hate Music! A Cycle of Five Kids Songs
Ewan Campbell, Glynde (for solo voice)
Aperghis, Récitation N.9 (for solo voice)
Park Lane Group Recital
The Hermes Experiment
St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London, 1.10pm
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Darren Bloom, Second Fig
Bach (arr. Pashley), D Major Prelude
Kate Whitley, My Hands
Prokofiev (arr. Schofield), Visions Fugitives, nos. 1, 7, 8 and 16, op. 22
Freya Waley-Cohen, We Phoenician Sailors
Concert en Hommage à Toni Ramon
Salle de l’Institut à Orléans, 8.30pm
Hommage à Toni Ramon
(carte blanche à Julien Joubert)
Marie-Noëlle Maerten, direction
Programmation : Conservatoire d’Orléans – 02 38 79 21 33
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the end at Festival Haizebegi, Bayonne, France
Performer: Héloïse Werner
Director: Emily Burns
Composer: Jonathan Woolgar
Mahler 3
PRET A CHANTER
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
PRET A CHANTER is a real time opera. Concept by Loré Lixenberg.
Colourscape Festival
The Hermes Experiment
1-5pm, Clapham Common, London
Eye Music Trust presents its flagship Colourscape Festival on Clapham Common in the world’s largest Colourscape.
Our programme will include music by Stevie Wishart, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Josephine Stephenson, Darren Bloom, Ewan Campbell, Anna Appleby, Ed Scolding and William Marsey, as well as graphic scores created live by audience members.
Rambert Dance
The Hermes Experiment at Rambert Dance (Southbank) – workshopping new pieces.
Erased Tapes is ten
The Conifers by Joel Rust
Workshops for new opera, as part of the Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship.
17 & 18 August, Snape Maltings
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
Gala performance to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Tête à Tête.
Performing excerpts from Kerry Andrew opera Dart’s Love, RADA Theatre, 5.20pm
The Winter’s Tale
Playing Perdita in The Winter’s Tale with The Hermes Experiment
RADA Studios Theatre, London, Tête à Tête Opera Festival, 7.50pm
Director, Nina Brazier
Composer, Kim Ashton
With actors William McGeough, Louisa Hollway, Christopher Adams, Sadie Parsons & Robert Willoughby.
Wilderness Festival
Cellist with the Wilderness Orchestra
Wilderness Festival
The Wilderness Orchestra will be joined by Brit & Mercury prize nominee Laura Mvula, the ever effervescent Will Young, Honeyfeet’s Rioghnach Connolly, and Ronnie Scott’s present a quartet including multi-award winning singer-pianist Liane Carroll, and Paul Robinson – Nina Simone’s drummer for two decades – singing along is highly encouraged.
BBC Proms
The Amazing Devil
Port Eliot Festival
Playing Marie-Antoinette in The Crocodile of Old Kang Pow, a new opera by Darren Berry at Port Eliot Festival
http://porteliotfestival.com/act/the-crocodile-of-old-kang-pow/
Fishguard International Music Festival
St Mary’s Church, Fishguard, 2pm
Gareth Wood, Blake Canticles
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Emily Hall, I am living simply and We’ve reached the end of the ending
Richard Rodney Bennett ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of theThé Dansant (arr. Pashley)
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
Prokofiev, Visions Fugitives, Nos 1, 3, 7 And 16 (arr. Schofield)
Debussy, Rêverie & Voiles (arr. Pashley & Schofield)
Tickets here
Fishguard International Music Festival
Performances as part of “Saints and Stones”
Fishguard Town Hall, 10am
Follow in the footsteps of the ancient pilgrims with a guided tour led by local historian Richard Davies to four churches across north Pembrokeshire. At each site, live music will be performed as you explore the interiors and soak up the atmosphere. Limited places – book early.
More details here
Nozstock Festival
Scenes from the end at Nozstock Festival, 5pm
Director: Emily Burns
Composer: Jonathan Woolgar
Performer: Héloïse Werner
Daylight Music
Set with film composer David Julyan at Daylight Music, Union Chapel, 12pm
David Julyan, synths
Heloise Werner, vocals/cello
Music written by David & Heloise
Details here
Nonclassical
The Hermes Experiment @ Nonclassical, The Victoria, Dalston
Freya Waley-Cohen curates a Nonclassical monthly club night at The Victoria, Dalston. The night will feature The Hermes Experiment and Liam Byrne.
Our sets will feature Freya’s song cycle We Phoenician Sailors on poems by Octavia Bright (which we premiered last November at new dots) as well as works by Josephine Stephenson, Darren Bloom and Meredith Monk. I’ll also perform Aperghis’ Recitation N.9 for solo voice.
Snape Maltings Residency
3-9 July – Residency at Snape Maltings creating a new one-woman opera about language, memory and identity
Work-in-progress performance on 8th July, Peter Pears Recital Room, 6pm – tickets available here
Héloïse Werner performer/composer
Octavia Bright writer
MMus Recital – Trinity Laban
End of year recital (1st year MMus) at Old Royal Naval Chapel, 1.45pm
Performing works by Mozart, Clara Schumann, Debussy, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Ewan Campbell & Aperghis + an improvisation for voice/cello.
Accompanied by Imma Setiadi
Opera at Courtesan
The Amazing Devil
cello/vocals with The Amazing Devil @ 229 the Venue, Great Portland St
LSO Soundhub Associates Concert
PRET A CHANTER
PRET A CHANTER is a real time opera. A café in which no speaking is allowed! Concept by Lore Lixenberg.
2-7pm, Coffee Corner, 102 Belgrade Road, Dalston, London
The Amazing Devil
cello/vocals with The Amazing Devil @ Paper Dress Vintage
RPS Music Award Ceremony
Shorlisted for a RPS Music Award in the Young Artist category
The Brewery, London
Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Competition
Performing Clara Schumann Lieder with pianist Ksenija Ova
Trinity Laban, Peacock Room
Gladys Puttick Improvisation Competition
Set for solo voice
Trinity Laban, Peacock Room, 1.30pm
Trinity Laban Opera Scenes
Playing Zerbinetta in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos
Blackheath Halls, 7.30pm
Director: Christopher Lane
Musical Directors: Robert Bottriell and Kelvin Lim
Polyphony
Bach, St John Passion
St John’s Smith Square, 2.30pm
Polyphony
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor
The Hermes Experiment: Bachn & Eggs
The Hermes Experiment
The Underdog Gallery, London Bridge, 12pm
Performance for a new Sunday brunch concert series curated by harpist Olivia Jageurs.
Programme will include pieces by Emily Hall, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Josephine Stephenson, Ewan Campbell, Deborah Pritchard and Meredith Monk.
More info here
The Amazing Devil
The Amazing Devil (cello / vocals) @ The Water Rats, London
Tallinn Music Week
The Hermes Experiment @ Tallinn Music Week, Estonia
Stevie Wishart, Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound
Ewan Campbell, London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Joni Mitchell, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ (arr. Pashley)
Metropolis, a semi-improvised piece by Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment
More info and tickets: http://tmw.ee/artists/the-hermes-experiment
Schumann Festival
performing Clara Schumann’s Rückert-Lieder as part of the Schumann Festival curated by Eugene Asti at Trinity Laban
accompanied by Ksenija Laskova
The Old Royal Naval Chapel College, 1.05pm
SHARDS
Recording in Berlin with SHARDS 23-26 March
Camden Rocks
Soloist Competition Final
Berg, 5 Orchesterlieder op.4
Stravinsky, 3 Japanese Lyrics
accompanied by Imma Setiadi
More info HERE
Music and the Allure of Napoleon
Concert of Napoleonic music – operatic and popular
Bowes Museum, Darlington, 3.30pm
Héloïse Werner, soprano
Oskar McCarthy, baritone
Mark Austin, piano
Details here
CoLab
CoLab Horizons – An exploration of music and dance with 6 performers from Taiwan National University of the Arts.
Showing at 4pm, Studio Theatre, Laban Building
Inspirations: Ligeti & Ravel
1917–2017 Revolutions – Reactions
The Hermes Experiment
Kings Place, Hall 2, 8pm
To mark the centenary of the Russian Revolutions, contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment have collated a programme of musical responses to these historic turning points featuring works by major Russian composers of the early 20th century alongside three especially commissioned pieces by contemporary composers – Emily Hall, Joel Rust and Timothy Salter. The group’s debut performance at Kings Place will also include the quartet’s own response to the revolutionary theme with free improvisation, a new piece inspired by the early electronics of the Russian avant-garde devised in collaboration with Jethro Cooke, and new arrangements of works by Mosolov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff.
New commissioned pieces by Emily Hall, Joel Rust and Timothy Salter
Alexander Mosolov (arr. The Hermes Experiment) Four Newspaper Advertisements, Op. 21
Rachmaninoff (arr. The Hermes Experiment) Fragments, Op. posth
Prokofiev (arr. The Hermes Experiment) Visions Fugitives Nos. 1, 3, 7 and 16, Op. 22
New piece devised by Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment
supported by Arts Council England, RVW Trust and Oleg Prokofiev Trust
The Amazing Devil
Blackheath Halls Recital
Performing Fantoche by Debussy at Jette Parker Recital
Blackheath Halls, Recital Hall, 7.30pm
More info here
Newnham Recital
The Hermes Experiment
Recital at The Old Labs, Newnham College, Cambridge, 7.30pm
We’ll be running our programme “1917-2017 Revolutions – Reactions”
Details HERE
Composers’ Workshop
The Hermes Experiment
Workshop with composition students from Cambridge University
Music Faculty, Cambridge, 2pm
More info here
Celtic Connections
Singer (with Sarah Dacey) for New Voices by Fraya Thomsen
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 1pm
As part of Celtic Connections Festival
BBC Radio 2
Singing with Freya Thomsen on The Radio 2 Arts Show with Jonathan Ross – BBC Radio 2, 10pm
Showcase Series Recital
Recital Room, Blackheath Halls, 6pm
Soprano Héloïse Werner presents of programme of works written for unaccompanied solo voice by living composers, including George Aperghis, Jonathan Woolgar, Ben Gaunt, Ewan Campbell, Henry Palmer, as well as her own compositions. The programme will also feature award-winning guitarist Laura Snowden, playing new pieces for solo guitar by Philip Cashian and herself, and will culminate in a final set with Laura and Héloïse performing together.
As part of the Trinity Showcase Series
Admission free but ticketed – reserve here
Composers’ Workshop – PRS for Music
Guest speaker for panel discussion on score writing and working with performers
PRS for Music, 2 Pancras Square, London, 11.15am
Rambert Connects
The Hermes Experiment
Rambert Connects – a new initiative with the aim of bringing composers and choreographers together to share their work.
Performing works by Anna Appleby and Deborah Pritchard.
Rambert, Southbank
Soloist Competition Semi-Final
Semi-Finalist in the Trinity Laban Soloist Competition
Great Hall, Bleackheath Halls, 4.20pm
Berg, 5 Orchesterlieder op.4
Stravinsky, 3 Japanese Lyrics
Debussy, Yniold’s aria from Pélleas et Mélisande
accompanied by Imma Setiadi
The Amazing Devil
Christmas Cabareilidh! (in aid of Yemen)
Troupe presents: The Christmas Cabareilidh!
The Bedford, 7.30pm
(cellist)
Come for cabaret and a ceilidh in aid of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Cabaret performances from London’s finest comedians and singers;
ceilidh dances from the sauciest players in town!
Tickets
All proceeds go to charity.
The Amazing Devil Christmas Special
The Amazing Devil Christmas Special
Gerry’s Club, Soho
(cello / vocals)
Ellie Nunn Sings Songs at People
The Winter’s Tale
In light of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, The Hermes Experiment has developed a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale during an Aldeburgh Music Residency. Reducing the play to an hour’s duration in collaboration with director Nina Brazier and composer Kim Ashton, the quartet of musicians become part of the drama alongside a group of actors.
The Cockpit, London, 7.30pm
Nina Brazier, Director
Kim Ashton, Composer
Sophie Mosberger, Designer
Damian Robertson, Lighting designer
William McGeough, Leontes
Sadie Parsons, Hermione
Robert Willoughby, Polixenes/First Gentleman
Louisa Hollway, Paulina
Christopher Adams, Camillo/Antigonus/Second Gentleman
Héloïse Werner, Perdita/Soprano
Anne Denholm, Harp
Marianne Schofield, Double bass
Stephen Williams, Florizel/Clarinet
The project is generously supported by Arts Council England, Aldeburgh Music, RVW Trust, Hinrichsen Foundation and Britten-Pears Foundation.
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Tristan Bates Theatre (Covent Garden), 7.30pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Tickets available here.
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Tristan Bates Theatre (Covent Garden), 3pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Tickets available here.
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Followed by poost-show talk with Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love
Tristan Bates Theatre (Covent Garden), 7.30pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Tickets available here.
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Followed by post-show talk with Helen Charman, editor of The Inkling Magazine.
Tristan Bates Theatre (Covent Garden), 7.30pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Tickets available here.
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Tristan Bates Theatre (Covent Garden), 7.30pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Tickets available here.
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Tristan Bates Theatre (Covent Garden), 7.30pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Tickets available here.
The Coach House Company Christmas Concert
Resonance FM
Live interview on Resonance FM “The Opera Hour”, 5pm
Oliver Pashley, Anne Denholm, Héloïse Werner and actress Louis Hollway will be discussing their upcoming project The Winter’s Tale
BBC Radio 3 In Tune
Live interview and performance on BBC Radio 3 InTune, ahead of Scenes from the End
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp0c/broadcasts/upcoming
David Ellis Group
Roy Pleasance Competition Final
Finalist in the Roy Pleasance Competition
Peacock Room, Charles King Court, Trinity Laban, 6pm
Berg, 5 Orchesterlieder op.4
Stravinsky, 3 Japanese Lyrics
accompanied by Imma Setiadi
Jetter Parker Young Artists Recital
Performing Schumann, “Er der Herrlichste von Allen” from Frauenliebe und -leben at Jetter Parker Young Artists Recital
Recital Room, Blackheaths Halls, 7.30pm
Gyula Nagy baritone
Simon Shibambu bass
James Hendry piano
Vocal Masterclass: Jette Parker Young Artists
Masterclass with Jette Parker Young Artists Gyula Nagy and Simon Shibambu
3pm – Theatre Studio, King Charles Court, Trinity Laban
I’m on at 4.45pm, singing “Er der Herrlichste von Allen” from Frauenliebe und -leben by Schumann
Piano, James Hendry
New Dots
The Hermes Experiment
Concert in collaboration with new dots
Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell, 7.30pm
World premieres by Andrew Thomas, Jia Chai & Freya Waley-Cohen
New piece devised by The Hermes Experiment & poet Ali Lewis
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta
The Amazing Devil
The Amazing Devil at Green Note, London
Grayshott Folk Club
The Coach House Company (opening for The Robyn Stapleton Band)
Grayshott Village Hall, GU26 6TZ, 7.30pm
Verdi Requiem
Verdi, Requiem
Philharmonia Voices
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Edward Gardner, conductor
Young Composers’ Concert
The Hermes Experiment
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 7pm
The Hermes Experiment will perform the winning entries in the competition. The programme will also include a piece by last year’s winner of the competition Dominic Wills and 3 pieces from The Hermes Experiment’s existing repertoire:
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
More info here
Cambridge Young Composer of the Year 2016/17
The Hermes Experiment
Competition Final, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 2.30pm
The Hermes Experiment will be playing the entries at the competition finals.
More info about the competition can be found here.
Cambridge Film Festival
The Hermes Experiment
Live improvised music for the screening of 1922 silent film Salome
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, 4.20pm
NEW, by Jeff Carpenter
vocals & cello for Jeff Carpenter’s new album NEW
Antenna Studios, SE19 3AP L, 7.30pm
Free entry
NEW, by Jeff Carpenter
vocals & cello for Jeff Carpenter’s new album NEW
Antenna Studios, SE19 3AP L, 9.30pm
Free entry
Resonance FM
Interview on Resonance FM ‘The Opera Hour’ 4.30pm – chatting about Scenes from the End.
Maiden Tales EP Launch
L’Aura des Arts Festival
Aubazine Abbey, 6pm (France)
“La mélodie française à son apogée”
Francis Poulenc, Liberté
Lili Boulanger, Dans l’immense tristesse
Arthur Honegge, Prière
Et œuvres de Stravinsky et Canteloube
Schirin Partowi, alto et conception
Quatuor à cordes, issu du Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Héloïse Werner, récitante
L’Aura des Arts Festival
Hôtel Le St-Etienne, Aubazine, 4pm (France) – Vernissage musical de l’exposition
Francis Poulenc, Le travail du peintre
Mise en musique des poèmes de Paul Eluard sur Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Gris, Klee, Miro et Villon
Sacre du Printemps, d’Igor Stravinsky pour piano à 4 mains, extraits
Schirin Partowi, alto
Héloïse Werner, soprano
Laurent Bourreau et Camille Leroy, piano
Aldeburgh Music – Open Session
On an Aldeburgh Residency The Hermes Experiment develop their new interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Reducing the play to an hour’s duration in collaboration with director Nina Brazier and composer Kim Ashton, the quartet of musicians become part of the drama alongside a group of actors. This Open Session will explore the progress they have made during their residency.
Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape, 6pm
Aldeburgh Residency – The Hermes Experiment
5-11 September, Aldeburgh Music
In light of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, The Hermes Experiment (harp, clarinet, soprano and double bass) will develop their new interpretation of Shakepeare’s The Winter’s Tale during their residency at Aldeburgh Music in September 2016, to be premiered at the Cockpit Theatre in December 2016.
They will work in close collaboration with director Nina Brazier and composer Kim Ashton, with the aim of highlighting key themes of the play through a condensed version of Shakespeare’s work. Each of the themes will become a ‘movement’ and will involve a different approach to the relationship between text and music.
They will be exploring a new mode of theatre that uses music and musicians as a vital part of the drama. Kim Ashton will lead the development of the music, which will include both improvised and semi-improvised elements and will be a central part of the work, not merely an accompaniment to the play. A group of actors will also be involved in the project, bringing life to Shakespeare’s colourful cast of characters.
Multi-Story: BBC PROMS
Singing in performances of Steve Reich’s Music for a Large Ensemble
(other female voice: Jess Dandy)
Multi-Story Orchestra
Conductor, Christopher Stark
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham 12pm & 3pm (3pm performance broadcast live on BBC Radio 3)
More info here.
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Lime Studio, 1.55pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Lime Studio, 1.55pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Lime Studio, 1.55pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Lime Studio, 1.55pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Lime Studio, 1.55pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Lime Studio, 1.55pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
RawFfest
The Riverfront, Newport
Begin the reinvention of opera by working with composer Errollyn Wallen and singers Adam Jondelius and Heloise Werner to explore writing for operatic voice.
This workshop will focus on what you want to hear and how you want to make it. Bring your influences and ideas and come and play. The final creation will be performed on Friday evening on the foyer stage.
Workshop Times: 11am – 12.30pm, 1 – 2.30pm, 3 – 4.30pm, 5 – 6.30pm
Performance Time: 7.30pm
More info here
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Camden Fringe, Camden People’s Theatre, 7.15pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
Scenes from the End
Scenes from the End is a new one-woman opera about grief.
Camden Fringe, Camden People’s Theatre, 7.15pm
Composer, Jonathan Woolgar
Director, Emily Burns
WNO Youth Opera
Kommilitonen! by composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and with a libretto by David Pountney
(Doctor)
Memo Arts Centre, Barry, 7pm
Director, Polly Graham
Musical Director, Alice Farnham
WNO Youth Opera
Kommilitonen! by composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and with a libretto by David Pountney
(chorus)
Memo Arts Centre, Barry, 2.30pm
Director, Polly Graham
Musical Director, Alice Farnham
WNO Youth Opera
Kommilitonen! by composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and with a libretto by David Pountney
(chorus)
Memo Arts Centre, Barry, 7pm
Director, Polly Graham
Musical Director, Alice Farnham
WNO Youth Opera
Kommilitonen! by composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and with a libretto by David Pountney
(Doctor)
Memo Arts Centre, Barry, 7pm
Director, Polly Graham
Musical Director, Alice Farnham
WNO Youth Opera
Kommilitonen! by composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and with a libretto by David Pountney
(chorus)
Memo Arts Centre, Barry, 7pm
Director, Polly Graham
Musical Director, Alice Farnham
Daylight Music
The Hermes Experiment
Daylight Music at the Union Chapel, 12pm
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
More info here
Possibly Colliding: a weekend curated by Nils Frahm (Session Seven)
Performing with new vocal ensemble SHARDS for Wildbirds & Peacedrums + Loscil
Barbican Hall, 7.30pm
Possibly Colliding: a weekend curated by Nils Frahm (Session Four)
Performing with new vocal ensemble SHARDS for Anna von Hausswolff + Penguin Cafe
Barbican Hall, 7.30pm
Possibly Colliding: a weekend curated by Nils Frahm (Session One)
Nonclassical Monthly Night
The Hermes Experiment
The Victoria, Dalston, 8pm
METROPOLIS – The Hermes Experiment explores the sights and sounds of the city.
Stevie Wishart Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound
Ewan Campbell London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Joni Mitchell, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ (arr. Pashley)
Metropolis, a semi-improvised piece by Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment
Our METROPOLIS project is generously supported by the RVW Trust.
Park Lane Group Lunchtime Recital
The Hermes Experiment
St Margaret’s Church Westminster, 12.45pm (as part of the Park Lane Group Lunchtime series)
Kate Whitley, My hands
Soosan Lolavar, Mâh Didam
Ewan Campbell, London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London
Gareth Wood, Blake Canticles
Richard Rodney Bennett ‘Slow Foxtrot’ from A History of theThé Dansant (arr. Pashley)
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
Free improvisation
Free entry – more info here
Les Noces
Philharmonia Voices
Les Noces, Stravinsky
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Irina Brown, stage director
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Late Shift at the National Portrait Gallery
The Hermes Experiment
National Portrait Gallery, London, 6.30pm
SONIC VISIONS
Kate Whitley, My hands
Soosan Lolavar, Mâh Didam
Debussy, Mandoline and Fantoches
Richard Rodney Bennett, “Slow Foxtrot” from A History of the Thé Dansant
Don McLean, “Vincent”
Graphic scores by Andy Ingamells, Deborah Pritchard & Eloise Gynn.
More info here.
SONIC VISIONS is generously supported by the Hinrichsen Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation and The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Middle Temple Hall, 6.30pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the play, with Mendelssohn’s Score
(chorus)
To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare where would be more appropriate than the historic Middle Temple Hall, where Twelfth Night was first performed? This sparkling production of one of Shakespeare’s happiest plays features eight actors and will be directed by David Edwards and designed by Colin Mayes, the team responsible for the highly acclaimed Dido and Aeneas in Middle Temple Hall in 2008. The Outcry Ensemble of 36 players, conducted by James Henshaw, Assistant Chorus Master at English National Opera, will fill the Hall with Mendelssohn’s music.
More info & tickets
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Middle Temple Hall, 6.30pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the play, with Mendelssohn’s Score
(chorus)
To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare where would be more appropriate than the historic Middle Temple Hall, where Twelfth Night was first performed? This sparkling production of one of Shakespeare’s happiest plays features eight actors and will be directed by David Edwards and designed by Colin Mayes, the team responsible for the highly acclaimed Dido and Aeneas in Middle Temple Hall in 2008. The Outcry Ensemble of 36 players, conducted by James Henshaw, Assistant Chorus Master at English National Opera, will fill the Hall with Mendelssohn’s music.
Armonico Consort
Armonico Consort
The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, 7.30pm
Mozart, Vespers (solos & chorus)
Christopher Monks, Director
Nicola Benedetti, Violin
Armonico Consort
Armonico Consort
The Anvil, Basingstoke, 7.30pm
Mozart, Vespers (solos & chorus)
Christopher Monks, Director
Nicola Benedetti, Violin
PLG Young Artists Spring Series
The Hermes Experiment
St John’s Smith Square, 7.30pm
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Stevie Wishart, Work for ensemble
Freya Waley-Cohen, Oyster
Kate Honey, Predator Fish
Josephine Stephenson, tanka
Instructions/Event
The Hermes Experiment
Performances at Soho Revue Gallery (14 Greek St, London W1D 4DP), 6pm & 9pm
More info here.
Instructions/Event
The Hermes Experiment
Performance at Soho Revue Gallery (14 Greek St, London W1D 4DP), 7pm
More info here.
Polyphony – John Passion
Polyphony – John Passion
Polyphony
Bach, St John Passion
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris
Stephen Layton, conductor
Music at 22 Mansfield Street
The Hermes Experiment
22 Mansfield Street, London, 7.30pm
SONIC VISIONS
Kate Whitley, My hands
Soosan Lolavar, Mâh Didam
Debussy, Mandoline and Fantoches
Richard Rodney Bennett, “Slow Foxtrot” from A History of the Thé Dansant
Don McLean, “Vincent”
Graphic scores by Andy Ingamells, Deborah Pritchard & Eloise Gynn.
More details here.
SONIC VISIONS is generously supported by the Hinrichsen Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation and The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust.
Polyphony – John Passion
The Hermes Experiment: Eton College Composers’ Workshop
The Hermes Experiment work with young composers at Eton College to inspire and develop their musical ideas.
SONIC VISIONS
The Hermes Experiment
The Forge, Camden, 8pm
New commissions by Kate Whitley & Soosan Lolavar
Graphic scores by Deborah Pritchard, Andy Ingamells & Eloise Gynn
Ed Scolding, Black Sea with new animation by Izabela Barszcz
Debussy, Mandoline and Fantoches
Richard Rodney Bennett, “Slow Foxtrot” from A History of the Thé Dansant
Don McLean, “Vincent”
SONIC VISIONS is generously supported by the Britten-Pears Foundation the Hinrichsen Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation and The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust.
Mahler, Symphony No. 3
Philharmonia Voices
Mahler, Symphony No. 3
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Mahler, Symphony No. 3
Philharmonia Voices
Mahler, Symphony No. 3
De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Scenes from the End
Tristan Bates Theatre, 8pm
Scenes from the End: A tour-de-force showcase for soprano Héloïse Werner. Using a colourful array of vocal and theatrical means, composer Jonathan Woolgar and director Roxana Haines paint historic, comic and tragic pictures of “the end”, from the heat-death of the universe to the end of an individual life. This is virtuoso music theatre on a scale that is both cosmic and intimate.
Tickets £6 advance / £8 on the door
tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/scenes-from-the-end
Bloomsbury Organ Day
The Hermes Experiment
Bloomsbury Church, 4pm
J.S. Bach, ‘Prelude in C # minor’ from The Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1 (arr. Pashley)
Stephen Williams, Postlude Canon, a reflection on J.S Bach’s ‘Prelude in C # minor’
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
Ed Scolding, Black Sea
Debussy, Fantoche (arr. Schofield)
Free improvisation
More info here.
Zero Wave
The Hermes Experiment
Fiddler’s Elbow, WN5
Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi (arr. Pashley)
Ewan Campbell London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London.
Stevie Wishart Eurostar, Velaro (work in progress)
Free improvisation
Sarum Consort
Polyphony – Messiah
Temple Winter Festival
Temple Church Choir
The Temple Church, 7.30pm
Roger Sayer, director
Temple Church Choir and Temple Brass present an eclectic mix of music by Nordic composers, combined with works from the British Isles, France, Germany and the USA. Einojuhani Rautavaara is perhaps the most prolific Finnish composer after Sibelius and his combination of melodic line and austere harmony give his music a great, mystical quality. Music by celebrated choral composers Arvo Pärt and John Tavener also feature in this evening of great variety and choral beauty.
This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
The Coach House Company Christmas Concert
CiR Series, Handel House
The Hermes Experiment
Handel House Museum, 2pm
J.S Bach (arr. Pashley), “Prelude in C# minor” from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
Stephen Williams, Postlude Canon, a reflection on ‘Prelude in C# minor’
Edwin Hillier, Pentiment
John Cage, Variation IV
Handel, “Endless Pleasure” from Semele (arr. Werner)
Giles Swayne, “Les Poissons mélomanes” from Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Elis Czerniak, New work
& Free improvisation
More info & tickets here.
Zero Wave
Scenes from the End (Part I)
Zero Wave, The Harrison, King’s Cross, 8.30pm
Scenes from the End: A tour-de-force showcase for soprano Héloïse Werner. Using a colourful array of vocal and theatrical means, composer Jonathan Woolgar and director Roxana Haines paint historic, comic and tragic pictures of “the end”, from the heat-death of the universe to the end of an individual life. This is virtuoso music theatre on a scale that is both cosmic and intimate.
Grayshott Folk Club
The Coach House Company, supporting The Henry Girls
TOI TOI @ CLF Art Cafe
The Hermes Experiment
Helios Collective’s TOI TOI, CLF Art Cafe
Metropolis, a new semi-improvised piece by Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment
METROPOLIS
The Hermes Experiment
The Cockpit, 7.30pm
The Hermes Experiment are joined by collaborators Stevie Wishart, Ewan Campbell and Jethro Cooke, to explore the sights and sounds of the city.Through new commissions, arrangements and free improvisation, the uncompromising metropolis will be seen by night and day, as a symbol of progress, destruction, light and dark.
New commissions by Ewan Campbell and Stevie Wishart
Joni Mitchell, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ (arr. Pashley)
Eric Maschwitz / Manning Serwin, ‘A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square’ (arr. Denholm)
Kurt Weill, ‘Berlin im Licht’ (arr. Schofield)
Semi-improvised piece by Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment
Asterism, written & performed by Jethro Cooke
Tickets available here.
Supported by the Britten-Pears Foundation
Chamber Tots, Wigmore Hall
The Hermes Experiment
Wigmore Hall, 10.15 & 11.45 am
More info about the project here.
Late Shift at the National Portrait Gallery
Emma Hamilton’s Country Club Founder Event
Marie-Antoinette in The Crocodile of Old Kang Pow a new punk opera by Darren Berry
Glebe House, East Sussex
more info tba.
Armonico Consort
Armonico Consort
Bach Motets & Goldberg Variations
Malvern Theatres, Great Malvern
Armonico Consort
Armonico Consort
Armonico Consort
Bach Motets & Goldberg Variations
Crooked Spire Church, Chesterfield
Armonico Consort
Armonico Consort
Bach Motets & Goldberg Variations
The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
“For Crying Out Loud!”, Wigmore Hall
The Hermes Experiment
Wigmore Hall, 11am & 12.30pm
J.S Bach, ‘Prelude in C # minor’ from The Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1 (arr. Pashley)
Stephen Williams, Postlude Canon, a reflection on J.S Bach’s ‘Prelude in C # minor’
Claude Debussy, Rêverie (arr. Schofield)
Giles Swayne, Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
More info & tickets here.
Commonwealth Orchestra
Commonwealth Gala Concert, Malborough House, Pall Mall
(cellist with the Commonwealth Orchestra)
London Folk Festival
BBC PROMS
Philharmonia Voices
Shostakovich, Orango
Bartok, Miraculous Mandarin
Royal Albert Hall, 7.30pm
Conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
Anya in Mannequin, a new opera by Maria Vatenina
RADA GBS Theatre
Tête à Tête Festival Opera
Tête à Tête Opera Festival
Anya in Mannequin, a new opera by Maria Vatenina
RADA GBS Theatre
Tête à Tête Festival Opera
Latitude Festival
National Portrait Gallery Choir
Latitude Festival
www.latitudefestival.com/line-up/artist/national-portrait-gallery-choir
BODY, Wilton’s Music Hall
Lovescapes: A Musical Exhibition
The Hermes Experiment
Crypt on the Green, 8pm
In collaboration with photographer Thurstan Redding
New commissions by Ed Scolding, Freya Waley-Cohen, Kate Honey, Josephine Stephenson and William Cole
New pieces devised by The Hermes Experiment
Lunchtime recital
Christ Church of Kensington, 1pm
Bernstein, I Hate Music! A Cycle of Five Kid Songs
Jonathan Woolgar, Six Dream Songs (for solo voice)
Mozart, “In Uomini” from Cosi fan tutte
Leanne Singh-Levett, piano
Polyphony, Spitalfields Music Summer Festival
Polyphony
Handel, Dettingen Te Deum
St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch
City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor
Part of Spitalfields Music Summer Festival 2015
rough for opera
The Hermes Experiment, Cockpit Theatre, 7pm.
Works by Coleman, Scolding and Woolgar.
The Coach House Company @ Bush Hall
Double Bill : The Old Dance School & The Coach House Company
Bush Hall, London, doors 7.30 / live music 8pm
City of Lights: La damoiselle élue
Philharmonia Voices
Debussy, La damoiselle élue
Royal Festival Hall 7.30pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Close To You, Cadogan Hall
Close to You: Sinatra and the Hollywood String Quartet, Cadogan Hall, 7.30pm
(production / press agent – not performing)
Full details here.
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
The Hermes Experiment
Ben Morris, organ
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 4pm
J.S. Bach, ‘Prelude in C # minor’ from The Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1 (arr. Pashley)
Stephen Williams, Postlude Canon, a reflection on J.S Bach’s ‘Prelude in C # minor’
J.S. Bach, ‘Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not’ from Cantata BWV 21 (arr. Cole)
Jonathan Woolgar, Scenes from the Garden of Love (Part 1)
Improvised piece by the Hermes Experiment
Listenpony: Tamsin Waley-Cohen & The Hermes Experiment
Listenpony presents the launch of Tamsin Waley-Cohen‘s new album Soli, and a host of works in response with their resident ensemble The Hermes Experiment.
Crypt on the Green
Armonico Consort
Armonico Consort (solos & chorus)
Charpentier, Te Deum
Kuhnau, Magnificat
Schelle, Vom Himmel Kam der Engel Schar
Bach, Magnificat
The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Director, Christopher Monks
More info & tickets.
Chamber Tots, Wigmore Hall
The Hermes Experiment
Wigmore Hall, 12.30 & 2pm
More info about the project here.
Music for Armenia
Philharmonia Voices
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
Boris Godunov
Philharmonia Voices
Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov (excerpts)
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Song Recital, King’s College Chapel
Song Recital, King’s College Chapel, 1.20pm
Chris Norman, piano
Works by Aperghis, Berio, Messiaen & Woolgar.
New music concert
St Marylebone Parish Church, 6.30pm
performing Jonathan Woolgar’s Six Dream Songs for solo voice
Bastard Assignments
The Coach House Company @ The Forge
Nonclassical: Hackney Classical
The Hermes Experiment
The Russet, Hackney Downs
DREAMS
New commissions by Edward Henderson, James Joslin and Tim Cape
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Meredith Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
Free improvisation on tweets
Polyphony – St John Passion
Polyphony
Bach St John Passion
St John’s Smith Square 2.30pm
Stephen Layton, conductor
St John Passion
St Mary Abbots Choir
Bach, St John Passion
St Mary Abbot’s Church, Kensington, 6.30pm
Mark Uglow, conductor
Music for LENT & PASSIONTIDE
Illuminare Choir
St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, 7.30pm
Jeremy Cole, conductor
Workshop at Purcell School
The Hermes Exeriment
Workshop with young composers, Purcell School
Academy Composers’ Platform
The Forge, Camden, 7.30pm
performing Jonathan Woolgar’s Six Dream Songs for solo voice (WP)
Kammer Klang
Rhythm, The Forge
The Hermes Experiment
The Forge, Camden, 8pm
New commissions by Gareth Wood, James Brady and Misha Mullov-Abbado
Bernstein, I Hate Music! (arr. Millwood)
Gershwin, I Got Rhythm (arr. Pashley)
Monk, Double Fiesta (arr. Denholm)
New piece devised by Lloyd Coleman and The Hermes Experiment
City of Lights: L’enfant et les sortilèges
Ravel, L’enfant et les sortilèges
Une Bête / Chorus (Philharmonia Voices)
Royal Festival Hall 7.30pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Abbey Road recording session
Cellist with The Commonwealth Orchestra, music by Paul Carroll
Later with Karl Lutchmeyer
Wednesdays at the Forge
Olly Coates and The Hermes Experiment Double Bill
The Forge, Camden – 7.30pm
Chamber Tots, Wigmore Hall
Ana Silvera: Oracles
Roundhouse, Studio Theatre, 7pm
(consort of 8 singers)
Singer-songwriter and composer Ana Silvera performs a newly extended version of her BASCA-nominated choral song-cycle Oracles. These concerts will be recorded for a 2015 album release.
Ana Silvera: Oracles
Roundhouse, Studio Theatre, 7pm
(consort of 8 singers)
Singer-songwriter and composer Ana Silvera performs a newly extended version of her BASCA-nominated choral song-cycle Oracles. These concerts will be recorded for a 2015 album release.
Ana Silvera: Oracles
Roundhouse, Studio Theatre, 7pm
(consort of 8 singers)
Singer-songwriter and composer Ana Silvera performs a newly extended version of her BASCA-nominated choral song-cycle Oracles. These concerts will be recorded for a 2015 album release.
Double Bill – The Coach House Company & Maz O’Connor
Acoustic Routes
Alice’s Youth Music Fundraiser
The Coach House Company
The Drayton Court Hotel, London, 7pm
All proceeds go to ALICE’S YOUTH MUSIC MEMORIAL FUND
Polyphony & OAE Messiah
Handel Messiah – St John’s Smith Square, 7.30pm
Polyphony
Stephen Layton, conductor
www.sjss.org.uk/events/polyphony-oae
A Christmas Experiment
The Hermes Experiment
St John’s Church, Notting Hill, 8pm
Featuring Ben Comeau on organ
New commission by Graham Ross
Britten, Ceremony of Carols (arr. Millwood)
Christmas Carols (arr. The Hermes Experiment)
New piece for solo organ by Jonathan Woolgar
Free entry – mince pies and mulled wine
The Coach House Company – Christmas Special
Five-piece folk band ‘The Coach House Company’ bring you traditional folk songs as well as newly arranged Christmas tunes to get you into the festive spirit.
£5 tickets include a free glass of mulled wine.
Limited number of tickets so advanced booking recommended!
Tickets available here.
Doors : 8.45pm – Music from 9-10pm
All the Wild Folk
Double Bill – The Coach House Company & Teyr at the Jamboree, 8pm
Tickets : £5 Advance | £7 Door | £8 After 9pm
Soundscapes
Join the Hermes Experiment as they delve into 500 years of sound in just one evening. Arrangements of Rameau, Purcell and Debussy frame four brand new commissions at the centre of the performance, intrepidly exploring the unique sounds only this ensemble is capable of creating. Where do the boundaries of sound end, and music begin? Take the plunge into the world of Soundscapes with The Hermes Experiment this November.
New commissions by Alexandr Brusentsev, Giles Swayne, Kim Ashton and Jeremy Thurlow.
Debussy, Rêverie & Voiles (arr. Pashley & Schofield)
Purcell, ‘When I am laid in earth’ from Dido and Aeneas (arr. Denholm)
Rameau, ’La Pantomime’ from Pièces de clavecin en concerts (arr. Williams)
Free improvisation
Tickets : £8 / 10
Sonic Imperfections
The Hermes Experiment
The Montague Arms, Peckham, 7.30pm
Chamber Tots, Wigmore Hall
UKYA Festival, Leicester
UKYA Festival, Leicester
Bastard Assignments: At Your Place
Bastard Assignments: At Your Place arrives at Fred’s place for an intimate event of brand new, experimental music featuring The Hermes Experiment.
From 8pm
13 Burrard Road, E16 3QL
Pieces by:
Timovich Capov
Louis D’Heudieres
Fred Feeney
Andy Ingamells
Edward Henderson
+ installation by Caitlin Rowley and a comedy set.
please RSVP to [email protected]
Reading Chorale
St Peter’s Church, Earley RG6 1EY, 10.30 – 6.15
Haydn Nelson Mass & Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer
Simon Hogan, Organist
Amber Nunn, Conductor
Fierce by Kathryn Griffiths
Camden People’s Theatre, 7.30pm
More info & tickets here.
Fierce by Kathryn Griffiths
Camden People’s Theatre, 7.30pm
More info & tickets here.
Fierce by Kathryn Griffiths
Camden People’s Theatre, 7.30pm
More info & tickets here.
Fierce by Kathryn Griffiths
Camden People’s Theatre, 7.30pm
More info & tickets here.
Fierce by Kathryn Griffiths
Camden People’s Theatre, 7.30pm
More info & tickets here.
Fierce by Kathryn Griffiths
Camden People’s Theatre, 7.30pm
More info & tickets here.
Minor Delays
The Hen & Chickens Theatre, 9.30pm
Minor Delays is a brand new sketch trio consisting of Abi Tedder (Cambridge Footlights President 2010), Harry Michell (Cambridge Footlights President 2013) and Joe Barnes (Leeds Tealights President 2013).
The sketches are accompanied by a live string section : Amelia Drew (violin) & Héloïse Werner (producer / cello)
Tooting Folk
The Coach House Company at Tooting Folk (main act)
Doors 7.30pm, music starts at 8pm. Entry £3.
More info here.
Laura des Arts Festival
The Hermes Experiment, Aubazine Abbey (France), 8.30pm
Including world première by Giles Swayne.
Folk on Monday
The Coach House Company, Green Note (Camden), promoted by Folk on Monday.
Doors 7pm / Live Music 8.30pm.
More info and tickets here.
Inspired by Bach
The Hermes Experiment, St John’s Notting Hill, 8pm
Ben Morris, organ
Bach, ‘Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not’ (arr. Cole)
Preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier : C# minor and F minor (Book 1), D Major (Book 2) (arr. Pashley & Schofield) paired with new fugues by Michael Mofidian, Sasha Millwood and Stephen Williams
New piece devised by The Hermes Experiment
£8/10
Wilderness Festival
Minor Delays – Edinburgh Fringe Festival
1-25 August 2014 – Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gilded Balloon – 3pm.
Minor Delays is a brand new sketch trio consisting of Abi Tedder (Cambridge Footlights President 2010), Harry Michell (Cambridge Footlights President 2013) and Joe Barnes (Leeds Tealights President 2013).
The sketches are accompanied by a live string section : Amelia Drew (violin) & Héloïse Werner (producer / cello)
Tickets HERE.
Eton Choral Course 2
Eton College, 10-18 July
Assistant Administrator and Consort Leader
TV Nights at Ronnie Scott’s
The Coach House Company – Main Act (10.30pm set)
In The Penal Colony
Shadwell Opera presents ‘In The Penal Colony’ by Philip Glass
(producer)
Arts Theatre (West End), 7.30pm
More info and tickets HERE.
Minor Delays at the ADC
ADC Theatre, Cambridge – 11pm.
Minor Delays is a brand new sketch trio consisting of Abi Tedder (Cambridge Footlights President 2010), Harry Michell (Cambridge Footlights President 2013) and Joe Barnes (Leeds Tealights President 2013).
In The Penal Colony
Shadwell Opera presents ‘In The Penal Colony’ by Philip Glass
(producer)
Arts Theatre (West End), 7.30pm
More info and tickets HERE.
London Folk Festival
The Coach House Company – The Bedford, 8pm.
More info here.
Nonclassical – The Hermes Experiment
Nonclassical presents : The Hermes Experiment at The Shacklewell Arms, 8pm
John Cage – Variations IV
Ed Scolding – Black Sea (world premiere)
Jonathan Woolgar – Scenes from the Garden of Love
Leonard Bernstein – I Hate Music! (arr. Millwood)
George Gershwin – I Got Rhythm (arr. Pashley)
More info here.
Fitzwilliam Museum
Promenade lunchtime concert at the Fizwilliam Museum, Cambrigde – 1pm.
Including a new work by Jonathan Woolgar.
Notting Hill MayFest
St Peter’s Church, Notting Hill – 9pm
The Hermes Experiment perform an exciting programme at the Notting Hill Mayfest, including a world premiere by composer Jonathan Woolgar.
The Coach House Company – EP Launch
Cecil Sharp House, 7.30pm.
The Hermes Experiment at Kettle’s Yard
The Hermes Experiment at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge – lunchtime concert, 12.30pm
Including a world premiere by Lloyd Coleman.