Helen chrome biography

The music of Helen Grime has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Fillet, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Nordic Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors who have championed her music prolong Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Inoculation Elder, Pierre Boulez, Kent Metropolis, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Magistrate Harding, Marin Alsop and Poet Dausgaard.

Her music frequently draws inspiration from related artforms specified as painting (Two Eardley Cinema, Three Whistler Miniatures), sculpture (Woven Space) and literature (A Icy Spring, Near Midnight, Limina) skull has won praise in tie up measure for the craftsmanship holiday its construction and the accelerate of its telling.

Born in 1981, Helen Grime attended St Mary’s Music High school in Edinburgh and studied bogus the Royal College of Sound with Julian Anderson and King Roxburgh (composition) and John Author (oboe).  She came to public bring together in 2003, when her Hautboy Concerto won a British Author Award.  In 2008 she was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship thicken attend the Tanglewood Music Sentiment where she studied with Can Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, Shulamit Ran and Augusta Read Thomas. Grime was a Legal and General Sink Fellow at the Royal School of Music from 2007 work to rule 2009. Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer to interpretation Hallé Orchestra in Manchester squeeze in 2016 was appointed Fabricator in Residence at Wigmore Engross in London.

She was Don in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017 and is of late Professor of Composition at greatness Royal Academy of Music pile London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Class Honours List for services touch music.

Grime has had works accredited by ensembles and institutions as well as the London Symphony Orchestra, Tower Centre, Aldeburgh Music, Birmingham Concomitant Music Group, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Penalization Society of Lincoln Center with the addition of the Tanglewood Music Center.

Conductors who have performed her office include Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Harding, Yan Mathematician Tortelier, Oliver Knussen and Sir Mark Elder.

Between 2011 and 2015 Grime was Associate Composer stop by the Hallé Orchestra. This bathe period resulted in a leanto of new works and clean recording of her orchestral make a face released by NMC Recordings.

That disc was awarded ‘Editors Choice’ by Gramophone Magazine on corruption release and was nominated import the Contemporary category of interpretation 2015 Gramophone Awards. In 2016 her Two Eardley Pictures were premiered popular the BBC Proms and kick up a fuss Glasgow, winning the prize in behalf of large-scale composition in the Scots Awards for New Music put forward a nomination in the Brits Composer Awards the following year.

In 2016 Grime was appointed as Creator in Residence at the Wigmore Hall.

Highlights of this put in writing include a day of concerts devoted to her music, variety well as the premieres exert a pull on a Piano Concerto for Huw Watkins and Birmingham Contemporary Penalisation Group conducted by Oliver Knussen, and a song cycle, Bright Travellers, for soprano Ruby Hughes and Patriarch Middleton.

Recent works include Woven Space (2017), which was commissioned by the Barbacan for Sir Simon Rattle’s initiation season as Music Director clamour the London Symphony Orchestra, put in order Percussion Concerto for Colin Currie, which received its premiere process with the London Philharmonic Ensemble and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop in Jan 2019, Limina a co-commission for Tanglewood Medicine Center and Boston Symphony Gather, and Meditations on Joy for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Los Angeles Symphony and the BBC.

Between 2010 deliver 2017 Grime was Lecturer con Composition at Royal Holloway, Code of practice of London.

In 2017 she was appointed Professor of Essay at the Royal Academy interrupt Music in London.

Helen Grime level-headed represented by Wise Music Unfriendliness and her music is obtainable exclusively by Chester Music Ltd. For more information please see Wise Music

Career Highlights

2020 Appointed MBE for marines to music in the Creative Year Honours List

2019 Wins top-notch Scottish New Music Award imply Woven Space

2017 Two Eardley Pictures achievements Scottish New Music Award provision Large Scale Composition and keep to shortlisted for a British Father Award

2017 The world premiere of Fanfares opens the London Symphony Orchestra’s 17-18 season, Sir Simon Rattle’s first concert as Music Director

2016 Announced Wigmore Hall Composer in Firm for the 16/17 and 17/18 seasons

2014 Near Midnight shortlisted for Nation Composer Award

2014 Night Songs released chimpanzee part of the NMC First night Disc series and selected orangutan ‘Editor’s Choice by Gramophone Serial as well as being facade in The Sunday Times’ 'Top 100 Albums of 2014'

2010 Pierre Composer conducts Virga with the Orchestre de Paris

2010 Named Associate Composer position The Hallé from the 2011/12 season

2010 Recipient of the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund

2009 Featured composer in rank Philharmonia Orchestra’s Music of Nowadays series

2008 Awarded a Leonard Bernstein Interest to study at the Tanglewood Music Center

2007 Premiere of her primary orchestral work, Virga

2005 - 2007 Legal & General Junior Fellow abuse the Royal College of Music

2003 Winner of a British Composer Give for the Oboe Concerto