The fourth, 'expanded' year of the Wigmore French Song Exchange returns with three recitals: two Wigmore Hall lunchtimes and a performance at the iconic Salle Cortot in Paris.

Devised by Dame Felicity Lott and François Le Roux, two great champions of the ‘mélodie’, the Wigmore French Song Exchange offers gifted singers – and for the first time pianists, guided by the celebrated Sebastian Wybrew – a year of coaching from their mentors and guest teachers, culminating in these showcase performances.

“We wanted to share our love of French song with a new generation of singers. Come and hear beautiful young voices in this rich and varied repertoire, with well-known and lesser-known songs, plus duets. I hope that - like me - you will make some great discoveries!” – Dame Felicity Lott

Tamara Bounazou

Tamara Bounazou is a French-Algerian lyric soprano known for her dual talent as a singer and actress. She has performed as Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's "The Rake’s Progress," conducted by Barbara Hannigan, and as Eurydice in "Orphée aux Enfers" under Marc Minkowski. At the Opéra National de Paris, she has portrayed Papagena in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" and L’amour in Rameau's "Platée." Passionate about poetry and chamber music, she collaborates with pianist Anna Giorgi as Duo Moine ou Voyou, winning several competitions, including the First Prize at the 2019 Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon. In 2025, Tamara will perform Iphigénie in Gluck's "Iphigénie en Tauride" at the Opéra-Comique de Paris.

Camilla Seale

Praised for her ‘unaffected simplicity’ (Classical Source) and ‘velvety mezzo’ timbres (The Telegraph), mezzo-soprano Camilla Seale made her operatic debut at Buxton International Festival before joining the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus the following season. In 2023-24, she was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio and a Britten Pears Artist. Recent concert highlights include Emily Howard’s Threnos at the Wigmore Hall, and Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.39 at the Manchester Song Festival, alongside appearances with choral societies across the UK. She adores baroque repertoire, performing regularly with Musica Antica and in 2023, won third prize at the Froville competition.

Gabriella Noble

Gabriella Noble is a mezzo-soprano from London and will soon begin the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Alongside song, Gabriella loves performing early music and was recently the recipient of a Young Artist’s Scholarship from Fundaciòn Salvat and 2023 Rodney Gibson prize for Early Music by the Association of English Singers and Speakers. Gabriella is a 2024 Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera and was generously supported by Gillian Laidlaw and the Knight Family Foundation in her Masters. She is passionate about interdisciplinary arts and her singing is influenced by her love of poetry and theatre.

Olivier Bergeron

Canadian baritone Olivier Bergeron made his professional debut in 2018 in Dido and Aeneas with Les Talens Lyriques. A member of the Verbier Festival's Atelier Lyrique in 2022, his recent projects include productions at Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra de Reims, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Festival d'Opéra de Québec, the Fauré Requiem with the McGill Choral Society, Poulenc's Le Bal Masqué in Verbier, Die schöne Müllerin at the Musée d’art de Joliette, and recitals in Paris and Montréal. His début album, Nuits Blanches, will be released in 2024, followed by a new full recording of Reynaldo Hahn’s songs.

Christina Koti

Greek pianist Christina Maria Koti is a musician-in-residence at the Fondation Hellénique in Paris, where she studies with Susan Manoff as well as pursuing an artist diploma at École Normale de Musique de Paris with Pascal Rogé and François Le Roux. Together with her duo partner, Jared Andrew Michaud, she has won first prize in the 2022 Federation of Art Song Fellowship Competition (New York City), and the 4th International SGSM Lieder Duo competition (Slovenia). She was a Young Artist in the 2024 Toronto Art of Song music festival, as well as in the 2023-2024 Young Europe Sings Academy.

Archie Bonham

Archie Bonham is a British pianist based in London. He is currently the Adami Award for Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music in London based in the Strings Faculty. After undergraduate studies at the University of York, he completed a Masters in Solo Piano and an Artist Diploma in Collaborative Piano at the RCM, studying with Danny Driver, Simon Lepper, Kathron Sturrock and Roger Vignoles. His studies were fully supported by the Needley Family Scholarship and the Viola Tunnard Trust.

Jong Sun Woo

Jong Sun Woo is a pianist, praised for her ‘poetic and characterful’ (The Guardian) playing. Jong Sun received the Gerald Moore Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Pianist’s Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards. With her duo partner Giacomo Schmidt, she has recently won prizes at International Schubert Competition in Dortmund, IVC in 's Hertogenbosch and International Student Lied Duo Competition in Groningen. She accompanied Felix Gygli when he won the Ferrier Awards 2023 at Wigmore Hall. Jong Sun was a scholar of Lied Akademie 2021/22 Liedzentrum Heidelberger Frühling, and she is also a Samling Artist and Britten-Pears Young Artist.