Helen Collyer
BA (Hons) Cantab LRAM
Piano
Accompanist and Teacher
Biography
(January 2001).
Helen
Collyer was born and educated in Chelmsford, Essex, and read music at Selwyn
College, Cambridge, where she won the Williamson Prize for Musical Performance.
Helen
is now based in London and enjoys a busy schedule as a piano accompanist, with a
particular interest in the vocal repertoire.
Recent engagements include recitals in Oxford, Cambridge and London,
Perpignan in France, and a centenary performance of Poulenc's Le Bal Masqué with
the English National Opera.
Helen is currently in the final year of her post
graduate diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studies piano
accompaniment with Malcolm Martineau and has been awarded several prizes.
She has had masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Philip Langridge, Sarah
Walker, Robert Tear and John Lill. She
has been selected as an accompanist for the Live Music Now! scheme,
founded by the late Sir Yehudi Menuhin, and has been awarded an Entente Cordiale
scholarship for further study in France.
Helen is very grateful for recent awards from the Geoffrey Parsons
Memorial Fund and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
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