Héloïse Bernard
Héloïse Bernard is a French soprano with a strong taste for Baroque & Early Music and a background in French literature and drama.
She performs as a soloist with Spinacino Consort, the Linarol Consort of Viols, The Telling, and is a founding member of Belesama. Described as a 'show-stealer' by BBC Music Magazine for her appearance as Iris on the recording of Eccles' Semele with the Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Julian Perkins, she's also featured on Linarol Consort's recording Epitaph for a Green Lover to be released in May 2026.
Often accompanied on the lute by Eric Thomas or Alex McCartney, she is praised for her soprano 'full of charm and emotion, asserting a discreetly rhetorical declamation'.
She performs as a soloist with Spinacino Consort, the Linarol Consort of Viols, The Telling, and is a founding member of Belesama. Described as a 'show-stealer' by BBC Music Magazine for her appearance as Iris on the recording of Eccles' Semele with the Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Julian Perkins, she's also featured on Linarol Consort's recording Epitaph for a Green Lover to be released in May 2026.
Often accompanied on the lute by Eric Thomas or Alex McCartney, she is praised for her soprano 'full of charm and emotion, asserting a discreetly rhetorical declamation'.
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Héloïse Bernard is a French soprano with a strong taste for Baroque & Early Music and a background in French literature and drama.
She performs as a soloist with Spinacino Consort, the Linarol Consort of Viols, The Telling, and is a founding member of Belesama. Described as a 'show-stealer' by BBC Music Magazine for her appearance as Iris on the recording of Eccles' Semele with the Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Julian Perkins, she's also featured on Linarol Consort's recording Epitaph for a Green Lover to be released in May 2026.
Often accompanied on the lute by Eric Thomas or Alex McCartney, she is praised for her soprano 'full of charm and emotion, asserting a discreetly rhetorical declamation'.
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Upcoming Concerts
Continuo Funded
Epitaph for a Green Lover
Sat, 12 September 2026
St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
3:00pm
£23 (u18s free)
St Cecilia's Hall
Continuo Funded
Epitaph for a Green Lover
- Sat, 26 September 2026
- Marlborough Road Methodist Church, Banbury
- 7:30pm
- TBC
- Banbury Early Music Festival
Continuo Funded
Epitaph for a Green Lover
- Sat, 10 October 2026
- Crowborough Arts
- 7:30pm
- £25 (members £22)
- Crowborough Arts
Continuo Funded
Epitaph for a Green Lover
- Sun, 11 October 2026
- The Grand, Folkestone
- 3:00pm
- £20 (free for students and children)
- Folkestone Early Music
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Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Sat, 6 June 2026
- Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 7:30pm
- £22 (conc. available)
- Oxford Festival of the Arts
- ➕10 other performances
Continuo Funded
Epitaph for a Green Lover
- Fri, 8 May 2026
- St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major
- 7:30pm
- £ 16 (U16 free)
- Early Voices/Lleisiau Cynnar