
Concerts in Association with the German YMCA in London


Programme

EYRA NORMAN
Eyra Norman is a Malaysian-born British soprano and a Graduate Scholar in the Master of Performance program at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London. She completed her Bachelor of Music with first-class honours under the guidance of Veronica Veysey Campbell and later graduated with distinction in the Master of Performance program under the tutelage of Russell Smythe and Bryan Evans.
Eyra was a Drake Calleja Trust Scholar for 2023-2024, a Shipston rising Star in 2024, and joined Opera Prelude as a young artist in 2025.
Eyra recently won first place in the London Song Festival Schubert Song Prize (2024), further solidifying her position as an emerging talent in the classical music world.
Her national debut came in 2019 as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas with the English National Opera and Unicorn Theatre. Eyra has since performed as a soloist at prestigious venues including the Royal Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Royal Albert Hall. In Hong Kong, she performed for the Prince of Liechtenstein at St. John’s Cathedral.
Eyra looks forward to this concert with the Schubert Society of Britain, the London Song Festival as well as a selection of masterclasses and performances with Opera Prelude.
ABHISRI CHAUDHURI
Scottish-Indian pianist, Abhisri Chaudhuri, is a Masters graduate of the Royal College of music. She studied collaborative piano with Roger Vignoles, Simon Lepper, Audrey Hyland and Kathron Sturrock as a Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation scholar supported by the John Birch Scholarship. Previously, she graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Fali Pavri.
Abhisri has received masterclasses from highly acclaimed song pianists such as Susan Manoff, Graham Johnson and Lydia Brown as well as singers Sir Thomas Allen, Nicky Spence and Benjamin Appl. She recently made her Wigmore Hall debut alongside bass-baritone Ross Fettes in a masterclass with Thomas Quastoff. She attended Brel Summer School in France where she learnt from Joseph Middleton and Amanda Roocreft. As she begins to expand her performances internationally, she performed at the 'Nei Suoni dei Luonghi' Festival as both a soloist and collaborative pianist in Udine, Italy. Abhisri performed in a concert for Anne, Princess Royal, representing the Caledonian Club in London and was recently selected to perform in the 2025 London Song Festival.
Abhisri was a 2024 Leeds Lieder Young Artist with her duo partner, Felicitas Wrede. Abhisri's awards include the Nora. C Leggat Prize for Pianoforte by the ABRSM, the Wellhayes award at the Somerset Song Prize, The Tony and Tanya Webster Memorial Prize for Russian Song, and the London Song Festival Schubert Song Prize. She was highly commended in the Royal Philharmonic Society's Young Classical Writers Award, where her work is published on their website.
PROGRAMME
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Ganymed
ÉMILE PALADILHE
Psyché
MIHCAEL HEAD
A Blackbird Singing
HAYDN WOOD
A Brown Bird Singing
MAURICE RAVEL
Tripatos
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Nähe des Geliebten
RICHARD STRAUSS
Wasserrose
FRANCIS POULENC
Violon
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Du bist wie eine Blume
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Dass sie hier gewesen!
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Apparition
ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
If I loved you
RICHARD STRAUSS
Morgen
ERIK SATIE
La Diva de l’Empire
HUGO WOLF
Verschwiegene Liebe
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Nacht und Träume
GEORGE GERSHWIN
I love to rhyme
The Schubert Society of Britain
in association with
The London Song Festival
PRESENT
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The Winners of the
Schubert Song Prize 2024
EYRA NORMAN
SOPRANO
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and​
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ABHISRI CHAUDHURI
PIANO