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Helen Grime In Focus
Throughout the year our In Focus series invites trailblazing composers to the RNCM. Behind the scenes they work closely with our staff and students, culminating in a compelling day of performances. This Spring we’re delighted to welcome Helen Grime.
Taking inspiration from paintings and literature alike, Helen Grime is renowned for her masterful compositional style and musical story telling. Her work has been performed by the world’s leading orchestras including London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Scottish-born, she studied both composition and oboe. She first gained critical acclaim in 2003 when her Oboe Concerto won a British Composer Award. Since then, she’s received many accolades, including being awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend Tanglewood Music Center in 2008, and has held several prominent positions. Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and in 2016 was appointed Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. She was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017 and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to music.
