The hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic saw Helen’s music making return closer to home. Her Isolation Songbook, a collection of songs by 15 different composers, was commissioned during the first UK lockdown and released on CD (Delphian Records) in early 2021.
2022 saw the release of her second solo album on the Delphian label: Battle Cry. Inspired by the music of Strozzi, Purcell and Monteverdi the recording is centred on a new song cycle for her and lutenist Toby Carr, by Owain Park and seeks to re-balance an obsession with female lament and abandonment in 17th century. They will tour the programme over the coming year.
Helen began singing as chorister and head chorister of the St Albans Abbey Girls Choir. She then studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge where she held a choral scholarship for four years and was a scholar on the Pembroke College Lieder Scheme, led by Joseph Middleton.