Belesama

Based in Scotland, Belesama create inspired themed programmes, reinventing multi-voice pieces for smaller forces. They have between them a wealth of experience in the worlds of Renaissance, Baroque & Classical repertoire, performing & teaching throughout the UK, Europe & beyond. Their carefully-themed and entertaining programmes explore music from the Mediaeval to the late Baroque.

• Héloïse Bernard Soprano

• Annemarie Klein Recorders

• Angela Stevenson Viol

• Jan Waterfield Harpsichord

Héloïse Bernard
French soprano with a strong taste for baroque and Early music and a background in French literature and drama. She performs as a soloist with Spinacino, the Linarol Consort of Viols, the Telling, and is a founding member of Belesama. Described as a "show-stealer" by BBC Music Magazine for her appearance as Iris on Eccle's recording of Semele with the Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Julian Perkins, she's also featured on Linarol's recording "Epitaph for a Green Lover" to be released in May 2026. http://www.heloisebernard.com

Annemarie Klein
Originally from Luxembourg, Annemarie Klein is a recorder player, teacher and translator based in Edinburgh. She completed her BMus at the University of Edinburgh and her MA in Recorder Performance at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven (Belgium) with Bart Spanhove and Bart Coen. Making her Wigmore Hall debut in December 2023 (recording of this programme with Siglo de Oro in 2025), Annemarie performs with ensembles Spinacino Consort, also featuring soprano voice, lute and viol, with Musica Mundana (with theorbo), and with keyboard players John Kitchen, David Gerrard and Dorien Schouten. The Spinacino Consort also brings Early Music to children with their ‘Spinacino Bambino’ events.

Annemarie teaches privately, at the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, and at Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools. She is in demand as a tutor on residential recorder courses across the UK and in Germany, where she co-leads courses with Dietrich Schnabel. She has recently translated Bart Spanhove’s new book on practice techniques into English, as well as translating for Moeck Musikverlag. http://www.annemarieklein.com

Angela Stevenson
Angela Stevenson, though hailing originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, has lived and worked professionally for many years in the Netherlands.

After studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam, she has enjoyed a broad and diverse career. This involved working at the Dutch Radio, Hilversum with contemporary composer/conductors as Peter Eetvos and Hans Zender & also playing with Baroque specialists Frans Bruggen and Ton Koopman. Chamber & solo recitals have included cello/ piano repertoire, clarinet trios & solo concertos ranging from Vivaldi's Double cello concerto through to Haydn, Schumann and Knut Nysteddt’s Stabat Mater for Mixed Choir and solo Cello op.111. She also played continuo for many years in the "Bach in Monnickendam " cantata series. Now she is concentrating on the viola da gamba!

Jan Waterfield
Having studied musicology, piano & harpsichord at Cambridge University & the Royal Academy of Music, Jan Waterfield is now based in Edinburgh, sometimes teaching at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow & also travelling throughout the UK & the rest of Europe as a chamber musician & soloist.

As well as being principal harpsichordist of the Gabrieli Consort & players, she is also a regular collaborator with the Dunedin Consort, Marian Consort & the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Notable recordings include the Gabrieli Consort’s award-winning ‘New Venetian Coronation’ (both as player & researcher), the Gabrieli’s ground-breaking ‘King Arthur’ & the remarkable SDG Bach cantata recordings.

Recent projects have included playing an 1834 Erard grand piano at the opening concert of the 2024 Edinburgh Festival & performing on the new baroque organ in the Tivoli Vredenburg Hall in Utrecht.