Helen Grime
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Helen Grime is an oboeist and composer born in 1981 in York but whose parents returned to Scotland when she was a baby. ..[1] . She comes from a musical family as her mother teaches music at St Margaret’s School Edinburgh and her grandparents were music teachers in Banffshire.
Career
Appointed Lecturer in Composition at the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London Jan 2010; Legal and General Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music 2007 - 2009 [2]
Education
Initially at the City of Edinburgh Music School then St Mary’s Music School and the Royal College of Music in London ultimately graduating with first class honours [3]
Performances
Oboe Concerto 2003 with Peter Evans Edinburgh Meadows Chamber Orchestra [4]
Compositions
Oboe Concerto 2003 for Peter Evans Edinburgh Meadows Chamber Orchestra; Song for seven instruments 2004 Music of Today for members of the Philharmonia Orchestra London Festival Hall; A Last Look for soprano and piano for Andrew Motion's 50th birthday; Virga for Orchestra commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra for 2007; Clarinet Concerto for 2009 Tanglewood Music Festival; Cold Spring, for 2009 Aldeburgh Festival; Everyone Sang for BBC Symphony Orchestra 75 Anniversary Concert broadcast simultaneously on BBC 2 TV and Radio 3 Dec 2 2010 [5] [6] [7]
Awards
Winner Making Music category for Oboe Concerto at 2003 British Composer Awards; 2008 Leonard Bernstein Fellowship for studying at Tanglewood Music Center [8]