Helen has directed and written for the Devon-based choir Glorious Chorus since 2003. The choir performs around the UK and has sung at numerous events and festivals including Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Port Eliot and Voices Now festivals. In 2019 the choir collaborated with acclaimed BBC Radio 2-nominated folk duo Ninebarrow for a couple of concerts in June & July. And at the end of the season Helen and her choir were invited to perform with internationally acclaimed Australian male voice choir, the Spooky Men’s Chorale.
In autumn/winter 2021 season Glorious Chorus resumed indoor rehearsals and gave two Christmas concerts at the end of the year. The choir has also collaborated with local singer/songwriter Rob Carney and performed with him at Ashburton Arts Centre in November ’21.
Helen is closing the choir in summer 2023 after twenty years of directing this leading regional choir. She wants to pursue other adventures as she turns sixty! If you want to follow the choir on it’s final season, visit its website, follow the choir on its Facebook page and subscribe to Helen’s mailing list on this site. That way you’ll get news of all the choir’s final concerts as well as Helen’s other news.
‘Exceptional! Plenty of heartfelt soul to leave the crowd enraptured, and calling for more’
Dan Faberoff, Stage Manager, Glastonbury Festival, 2010
In summer ’17 Glorious Chorus was delighted to be selected for the prestigious Voices Now festival at The Roundhouse in London, which featured some of Helen’s music sung by all the choirs. Watch below…
Watch Glorious Chorus sing ‘Family’ at Exeter Cathedral, supporting folk/rock band-of-the-moment Sound of the Sirens.
Glorious Chorus’s stunning video of their ‘Money’ mashup – the song which won them a place in the finals of Charles Hazelwood’s inaugural Orchestra In A Field choir competition.
Xmas ‘2014
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.
The girls enter Dartington Hall to sing at Home Festival
Finalists at Orchestra In A Field
Other Devon Choirs
Helen regularly teaches at Embercombe, the land-based educational charity near Exeter.