Helen Yeomans

Choir Director and Songwriter

Helen Yeomans teaching with singing group
Helen facilitating at the Skylodge
Glorious Chorus at The Great Hall Dartington
Thula Mamas at BBC Plymouth
Helen Yeomans at Rise Up Singing

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  • Glorious Chorus

    Helen is director and composer for Glorious Chorus in Devon. Highlights of this performance choir include Glastonbury festival, Port Eliot & the Isle Of Wight festivals, Voices Now festival and finalists in the inaugural Orchestra In A Field choir competition.

    2022/23 is the final season for Glorious Chorus. The choir will be 20 years old in the summer of 2023. Follow the choir on Facebook and it’s website, and/or subscribe to Helen’s mailing list (on this site) to get news on the choir’s final concerts plus all of Helen’s other news.

    Performing in 2013
    Performing in 2013

    The girls enter Dartington Hall to sing at Home Festival
    The girls enter Dartington Hall to sing at Home Festival

    Finalists at Orchestra In A Field
    Finalists at Orchestra In A Field

    Xmas '2012
    Xmas ‘2012
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    In 2010 Glorious Chorus collaborated with commercial rap artist, Sam Welch, and pop producers, ‘The Competition’, with the release of Fabio World Cup Song. This coincided with England’s participation in the World Cup finals and accrued over 200,000 hits on youtube.com as well as airplay on numerous sports TV channels. Glorious Chorus scored another publicity hit for Christmas with the release of their flashmob video of Fairytale of New York, Helen’s arrangement of The Pogues’ classic. The video is available to view on YouTube and has accrued thousands of hits.

    ‘Exceptional! Plenty of heartfelt soul to leave the crowd enraptured, and calling for more’
    Dan Faberoff, Stage Manager, Glastonbury Festival, 2010

    Other Devon Choirs

    Helen teaches at Embercombe, the educational land-based enterprise near Exeter and also runs Thula Mama in Dartington. All information about Thula Mama can be found by visiting ww.thulamama.co.uk

  • Watch Helen with her Devon Thula Mamas

    See the Thula Mama Page for a beautiful video of the mums singing with their babies – all you need to prove that singing works!

  • Helen brings One World to Hull and London

    After the success of the One World inaugural performances in the South West, Helen brought the show to Hull in 2017 to celebrate the city’s City of Culture award. In 2019 the show was presented in London in three sell-out performances. In both instances Helen created an auditioned choir from the region and commissioned spoken word artists to read specially for the show.
    For all information about the One World show visit the One World page.

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  • Glorious Chorus – ‘Money’

    Watch Glorious Chorus’s amazing video of Helen’s ‘Money Medley’ arrangement. Choreography by Catherine Wilcox (tenor). This song won the choir a place in the finals of Charles Hazlewood’s inaugural Orchestra In A Field choir competition 2012.

  • Totnes Market Choir

  • Hull Freedom Chorus

    October & November – teaching new commissioned works to the Hull Freedom Chorus / directing in festival performances.

  • Findhorn Weekend Singing Workshop

    Findhorn Weekend Singing Workshop

    8th/9th Nov‘13 – weekend  singing workshop at Findhorn, Scotland.

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  • Heartful Love Chants & Glorious Choruses

    Heartful Love Chants & Glorious Choruses

    16th Nov ’13. Letchworth, Herts. The day will be spent singing a selection of Helen’s award-winning compositions, from heartful love chants to uplifting big choir pieces.letchworth

  • Stronger Acoustic Version

    Listen to Rob Johns play his version of Stronger, the anthem written by Helen. Rob arranged this in 2011 and Helen’s daughter Lucy created the beautiful video for this song to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International.

    You can buy this version as an MP3 by clicking here.