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'.
Biography
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
Fri, 8 May 2026
St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major
7:30pm
£ 16 (U16 free)
Early Voices/Lleisiau Cynnar
Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Sat, 16 May 2026
- St Edward's Church, Cardiff
- 7:30pm
- £20 (conc. available)
Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Tue, 19 May 2026
- OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
- 7:30pm
- £23
- ➕3 other performances
Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Sat, 23 May 2026
- Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
- 7:30pm
- £20 (conc. available)
Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Sun, 24 May 2026
- East Riding Theatre, Beverley
- 7:30pm
- £10 - £28
- Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Mon, 25 May 2026
- Dartington Hall, Devon
- 7:00pm
- £32
- English Music Festival
Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Sat, 6 June 2026
- Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 7:30pm
- £22 (conc. available)
- Oxford Festival of the Arts
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, OX16 5BZ
- 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
Past programmes
Continuo Funded
Purcell, The Musical
- Sun, 26 April 2026
- Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
- 7:30pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- ➕4 other performances
Scots Songs and Fancies of the Renaissance by John Forbes of Aberdeen
- Sun, 15 March 2026
- St Mary's Church, Aberfoyle
- 3:00pm
- Voluntary donation
- Concerts at St Mary Aberfoyle
Sounds of St Cecilia's I
- Wed, 7 August 2024
- St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
- 3:00pm
- £15 (£12 concession, £5 under-18s)
- St Cecilia's Hall
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