As a Graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Helen is experienced in playing many different genres of music. From Session to Classical, from Baroque to Chamber she has a wide portfolio already with many more exciting ventures to explore. Since graduating, working as a freelance violinist has been very exciting for Helen. She has been involved in working with various Musical Theatre Productions around Manchester and Chester including at the prestigious Hammond School for their BA Musical Theatre Students since 2017. Their shows include Miss Saigon, Jekyll and Hyde, Beauty and the Beast. Other shows around the Manchester area include Guys and Dolls, West Side Story and The Sound of Music. She has also been the violinist for medley shows with previous actors of the West End show, Joseph and the Techni-Coloured Dream Coat in various locations such as The Princess Alexandra Auditorium in Yarm, the Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury, the Cast Theatre in Doncaster, the Prince of Wales Theatre in Cannock and the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool, . 

Helen has performed on stage with Britain's Got Talent Rob King at the prestigious Lowry Theatre in Manchester, in 'An Evening with Rob King". This event was a show of different songs from various different musicals and show songs. 

Alongside playing for Musical Theatre Shows, Helen has appeared in the Gatecrasher Classical shows in London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, Bournemouth, Sheffield, Newcastle and Scarborough. 

As well as performing, Helen also works for the National Children's Orchestra of GB as a Mentor for their regional orchestras and as social staff for their residential courses. Recently, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the NCO put on a 3 week online course where Helen was a mentor for the several of the senior violin groups alongside Tutor Clare Thompson. 

Since her final year of studying at the RNCM, Helen has been teaching violin privately to a range of different age people. She has had to adapt to teaching online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic and looks forward to continuing face to face teaching as soon as possible. 

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Helen started playing violin at the age of four with the Galloway Suzuki Group. She was very fortunate to have Miss Brenda Smith as her teacher there. Helen went on to win many trophies at the local music festivals before gaining a place at the prestigious Chetham's School of Music aged 12 where she studied with Kristoffer Dolatko until 2016 when she accepted a place at the Royal Northern College of Music studying with Gina McCormack. 

During Helen’s time at Chetham’s, she had the opportunity to perform in many different chamber music series with different quartets.The highlight of her chamber music at Chets was travelling to Jersey with her string quartet to perform the first movement of Mendelssohn’s string quartet in F Minor as well as joining the Jersey Youth Chamber Orchestra in their programme.

​Helens orchestral experience started with the National Childrens Orchestra of Scotland as well as the National Childrens Orchestra of Great Britain. She then progressed onto spend four years in the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. This along with the many orchestral experiences at Chetham's and now RNCM as well as playing with the Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra has given her a great wealth of experience in orchestral playing working with many renowned conductors such as Paul Mann, Ilan Volkov, Jac Van Steen and David Hill. The highlights of Helens time with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, has to be their tour to China in 2015 where they played in 3 fantastic concert venues in Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing. Then in 2016 the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland had a stand alone concert at the BBC’s Proms where the programme included Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet.