Helen Grime
Born in 1981, Helen Grime studied oboe and composition at the Royal College of Music in London and came to public attention in 2003, when her Oboe Concerto won a British Composer Award. She was a Legal and General Junior Fellow at the RCM from 2007 to 2009 and, in 2008, was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend the Tanglewood Music Center.
Grime has had works commissioned by ensembles and institutions including the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Koussevitsky Foundation, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductors who have performed her work include Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, Sir Mark Elder, Kent Nagano, Marin Alsop and Andris Nelsons.
Between 2011 and 2015 Grime was Associate Composer with the Hallé Orchestra, a fruitful period that resulted in a series of new works and a portrait recording of her orchestral music released by NMC Recordings. Grime was Composer in Residence at the Wigmore Hall from 2016 to 2019, composing a Piano Concerto for Huw Watkins and BCMG, a song cycle for Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton and her second string quartet.
Grime was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, from 2010 until 2017 when she was appointed 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.
Born in 1981, Helen Grime studied oboe and composition at the Royal College of Music in London and came to public attention in 2003, when her Oboe Concerto won a British Composer Award. She was a Legal and General Junior Fellow at the RCM from 2007 to 2009 and, in 2008, was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend the Tanglewood Music Center.
Grime has had works commissioned by ensembles and institutions including the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Koussevitsky Foundation, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductors who have performed her work include Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, Sir Mark Elder, Kent Nagano, Marin Alsop and Andris Nelsons.
Between 2011 and 2015 Grime was Associate Composer with the Hallé Orchestra, a fruitful period that resulted in a series of new works and a portrait recording of her orchestral music released by NMC Recordings. Grime was Composer in Residence at the Wigmore Hall from 2016 to 2019, composing a Piano Concerto for Huw Watkins and BCMG, a song cycle for Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton and her second string quartet.
Grime was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, from 2010 until 2017 when she was appointed 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.
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