Helen Collyer repetiteur

Helen was born in England, read music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, (Willamson Prize for Musical Performance) and studied piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Malcolm Martineau, where she later held the Hodgson Fellowship.

Prizes awarded during her studies include various RAM prizes, The Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Award, a Musician's Benevolent Fund Award for Piano Accompanists, and a Countess of Munster Scholarship.

In 2003 Helen trained at the National Opera Studio in London (where she was awarded the Leonard Hancock Memorial Award), subsequently joining English National Opera (Falstaff, The Pirates of Penzance, Don Giovanni).

As a young artist at l'Opéra National de Paris, Helen was engaged for the main stage productions of Rigoletto, and preparation of the choruses for Boris Godunov and Pique Dame. Productions for the Atelier Lyrique include Cosi fan tutte, the world premiere of Les Aveugles (Paris and  London) 'Atelier Gluck' (including Armide, Orfeo et Eurydice, Iphigénie en Tauride) and Haydn's L'isola disabitata (Paris and Théâtre de Caen).

Helen joined Den Norske Opera in 2006 (Der Rosenkavalier, Otello, La Clemenza di Tito, Walküre, La Boheme, Tosca).

Since 2007 she is based in Berlin where she works for Komische Oper Berlin (Handel's Oreste and Teseo, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Requiem and Die Zauberflöte, L'Enfant et les Sortlièges, Das Land des Lächelns, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, the world premiere of Christian Jost's Hamlet, and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades).

As piano accompanist, Helen is engaged by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and l'Opera national de Paris, The Queen Sonja Vocal Competition in Oslo, and in Berlin for Vokalconsort and the choir Cantus Domus. She has given recitals throughout Great Britain (including the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio, Purcell Room, the Queen Elizabeth Hall), in Paris (Palais Garnier, La Bastille and Radio France) and in Germany, Sweden and Italy.

Recent operatic engagements include the world premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte (Paris/Siena), and Cosi fan tutte and the world premiere of Peter Eötvös' Love and Other Demons for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

 Future plans include Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress for Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2010.