Biography

London-based mezzo Helena Cooke studies singing with Veronica Veysey-Campbell.

After graduating from The University of York with a first class honours degree in Music, Helena worked as a Lay Clerk with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, recording and touring extensively. 

Since then, Helena has enjoyed a busy freelance career in London. She has worked with a large number of groups including BBC Singers, English Concert, Recordare, Polyphony, Sonoro, and Britten Sinfonia Voices. She has also done film session work with London Voices and RSVP Voices. Helena is also a regular alto in the choir of HM Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London 

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Equally comfortable as a soloist, Helena performs with choral societies up and down the country. Recent highlights include Elijah, and CPE Bach's Magnificat. In 2022, Helena performed the role of Sorceress in Hampstead Garden Opera's production of Dido and Aeneas. She has also performed Britten's Canticle Abraham and Isaac with Mark Padmore at the St Endellion Summer Music Festival. She will soon feature as one of the solo female voices recording Paul Bowles' setting of Yerma with the English Chamber Orchestra.

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Helena recently became a member of Levedy Ensemble, an all-female voice and harp quintet of opera singers with choral backgrounds. Her first engagements with them included concerts in Switzerland, two of which were in a prison – work which forms an important part of the group’s objectives.

 

Alongisde singing, Helena is also an award-winning photographer and regularly shoots for all kinds of musicians and groups.

She works as the Chorus Fixer/Manager for the St Endellion Summer Music Festival.