Helen Cole
Harp

Currently working freelance in the UK, Helen has played with many orchestras including the London Philharmonic, London Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Academy of St Martins-in-the-Fields, London Mozart Players, Philharmonia, Orchestre National de Lyon, City of London Sinfonia and was principal Harp with Northern Ballet Theatre for a number of years.

After reading music at Clare College, Cambridge, Helen became a scholar at the Royal College of Music. She was awarded funding by the Countess of Munster Fund and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund for her postgraduate studies. She has also received money from the Loan Fund for Musical Instruments, the Abbado Trust, the RCM Alumni Fund and the Lady Clare Fund in order to facilitate the purchase of her harps. As a chamber musician she is active with the multi instrument group CHROMA, the trio Helianthus and the duo Entr'acte. She also has an active teaching practice which includes the positions of harp teacher at the Centre for Young Musicians at Morley College.

She plays on a 1983 Horngacher or a 1937 Lyon & Healy harp, and in her spare time she enjoys coxing, and also teaching rowing, on the River Thames near Greenwich.