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Helen
Collyer repetiteur
Helen was
born in Chelmsford, Essex, and is now based in London, where she is much
in demand among both singers and instrumentalists as a piano accompanist.
She read music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where she won the Williamson
Prize for Musical Performance, before continuing her postgraduate studies
in piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music with Malcolm Martineau,
graduating in 2000 with distinction. She won several RAM prizes, and was
awarded the Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Award, a Sir Henry Richardson Award
for piano accompanists (MBF), and was supported by the Ann Johnson Foundation
and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
Helen was awarded an Entente Cordiale scholarship from the French Embassy
for further study in Paris in 2000-01, and attended Francois Le Roux’s
Académie de la Mélodie française. She studied Italian
throughout September 2001 in Perugia, Italy, returning to England in October
to take up the 2001-02 Hodgson Fellowship at RAM.
She has performed at the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, and has
given recitals at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio (with Trine
Møller, mezzo), the Royal Academy of Art, the National Portrait
Gallery, the British Library, for the Countess of Munster Musical Trust
Recital Programme, for numerous music societies throughout the country,
for Live Music Now!, and for projects with the English National Opera
Studio, and in France, Italy, Sweden and Germany.
Recent
engagements include performances at the Purcell Room with Owen Webb (baritone),
and Brahms’ Requiem arranged by the composer for piano
duet with the North London Chorus, conducted by Murray Hipkin. Future
engagements include recitals with Rodney Clarke (baritone) and Alex Ashworth
(baritone).
Helen is currently broadening her repertoire and furthering her studies
as a trainee répétiteur and coach at the National Opera
Studio. She has been awarded the Leonard Hancock Memorial Scholarship,
and a Sir Henry Richardson Award for répétiteurs from the
Musicians’ Benevolent Fund.
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