Concert 9: Marie-Blanche Vasnier, muse of Claude Debussy - Saturday 6th December, 7pm
Eyra Norman - soprano
Abhisri Chaudhuri - piano

The winners of the 2024 London Song Festival Schubert Song Prize present a complete performance of the Vasnier Songbook; 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. This is a rare performance of all 27 songs that Debussy wrote for Marie-Blanche.

Eyra Norman is a 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.