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Helen Williams (b. 1969)

Helen Williams combines being an ecclesiastical composer and embroiderer with regular employment as an NHS Music Therapist. Improvisation plays a large part in her work both with adults and children with intellectual disabilities and as a pianist-accompanist for Cecchetti ballet schools. She studied composition at Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Michael Omer. Becoming one of the first female Choral Scholars at St Peter’s College, Oxford, she began composing for choir. She also plays the viola and tenor viol. Living in Epsom, she has written mainly for St Martin’s Church, where her congregational psalm responses are used most weeks, and for Epsom Chamber Choir. ‘I enjoy creating and restoring anything, whether lasting or ephemeral, that makes emotional and spiritual connections.’

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