Helen Grime: Violin Concerto Release January 16, 2026
Helen Grime
Composer
The music of Helen Grime has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Swedish Radio
Symphony Orchestra. Conductors who have championed her music include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Daniel Harding, Marin Alsop and Thomas Dausgaard.
Her music frequently draws inspiration from related art forms such as painting (Two Eardley Pictures, Three Whistler Miniatures), sculpture (Woven Space) and literature (A Cold Spring, Near Midnight, Limina) and has won praise in equal measure for the craftsmanship of its construction and the urgency of its telling.
Born in 1981, Grime attended St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and, following studies at the Royal College of Music in London, was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend the Tanglewood Music Center in 2008. Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and in 2016 was appointed Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. She was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017, and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to music.