Helen Roe

Helen Roe was born in 1955. She studied composition with David Lumsdaine and Peter Wiegold, and read music at Jesus College, Oxford. Her first broadcast piece was Ash Wednesday, (1975) a twenty minute piano work which won the BBC Young Composers' Competition. Since then, most of her larger pieces have been heard on Radio 3: her music has also featured on Channel 4 and on Danish Television. Awards include the SPNM Prize for a test piece for the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition (1982) the Harriet Cohen Memorial Trust Award (1984) and the Gemini Fellowship for composers (1992) She was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, (1986-9) has taught at King's College, London, and on the postgraduate Performance and Communication Skills course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. She was a General Council member of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (1993-99) and a founder member of Women in Music. A more detailed biography appears in the Pandora Guide to Women Composers by Sophie Fuller(Pandora)

There are two of Helen's scores here- A Celtic Blessing and My Mind's White Truth . These were produced using Sibelius and the Sibelius "Scorch" plug-in is required to view and hear them.

Complete list of works

E-mail: helen@helenroe.org.uk

And look at her new website: www.helenroe.org.uk