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Schubert Song Prize winners for 2024

Schubert Song Prize winners for 2024
Eyra Norman, Abhisri Chaudhuri, Nicky Spence
Eyra Norman, Abhisri Chaudhuri, Nicky Spence

The London Song Festival and Schubert Society have announced the winners of the 2024 London Song Festival Masterclass & Schubert Song Prize Competition. The 2024 Masterclass and Schubert Song Prize event, featuring internationally acclaimed tenor Nicky Spence, took place on Wednesday, 27 November 2024 and was sponsored by the German YMCA in London. This was the 10th anniversary of the first Schubert Song Prize.

The winners were soprano Eyra Norman and pianist Abhisri Chaudhuri, and they will perform on Thursday 6 February 2025 at St James’s Church Sussex Gardens W2, as part of the Schubert Society of Britain’s concert series, with a programme of Schubert, Strauss, Schumann, Wolf, Poulenc, Debussy, Satie and Hammerstein [full details].

Eyra Norman is a Malaysian-born British soprano who studied at the Royal College of Music. She was a Drake Calleja Trust Scholar for 2023-2024, a Shipston rising Star in 2024, and will join Opera Prelude as a young artist in 2025. Her national debut came in 2019 as Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the English National Opera and Unicorn Theatre.

Scottish-Indian pianist, Abhisri Chaudhuri studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and she is currently in her second year of master’s studies in Collaborative Piano at the Royal College of Music, studying with Roger Vignoles and Simon Lepper.


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