Eyra Norman - soprano
Abhisri Chaudhuri - piano

at Hinde Street Methodist Church W1U 2QJ in the heart of London’s West End: the nearest tube station is Bond Street.

The winners of the 2024 London Song Festival Schubert Song Prize present a selection of the of the songs that Debussy wrote for Marie-Blanche Vasnier, a high soprano with striking green eyes, with whom he enjoyed an affair from 1880 to around 1887. Debussy was 18 when he met Marie-Blanche, who was 32 and married, and he wrote some of his most exuberant songs for her.

Eyra Norman is a Samling Artist, Shipston Rising Star and an Opera Prelude Young Artist. She made her debut in 2019 as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas with English National Opera and has since performed as a soloist at venues including the Royal Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Royal Albert Hall, and in Italy, Hong Kong and America.
Abhisri Chaudhuri is a 2024 Leeds Lieder Young Artist, winner of the pianist prize of the Somerset Song Prize, and has performed at the Wigmore Hall and in France and Italy.