Helena Michaelson
Composer
| Years at Source: | 2021 |
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| Biography: | Helena Michelson is a composer based in the San Francisco-Bay Area. She completed her undergraduate studies in Music at the University of California, Berkeley and holds a doctorate in composition and theory from the University of California, Davis. Helena Michelson studied piano with Mack McCray at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and, in masterlasses, with Richard Goode and Awadagin Pratt. She has studied composition, among others, with Olly Wilson, Cindy Cox, Jeffrey Miller, Pablo Ortiz, and, in masterclasses, with Louis Andriessen, Martin Bresnick, Mario Davidovsky, Eric Chasalow, Philippe Leroux, Bernard Rands, Judith Shatin, and Joel Hoffman. She has been a fellow at numerous festivals including Composers Conference at Wellesley College, MusicX, June in Buffalo, and Domaine Forget in Québec. In addition, she has been a participating composer in Antico Moderno Ensemble's and the 2017 International Trombone Festival's (University of Redlands) Composers Workshops, the 2018 Opera From Scratch program (Halifax, Canada), a participating composer at the Bayou 2019 in Monroe, LA, the 2020 and 2021 Music by Women Festival in Columbus, Mississippi, the 2020 and 2021 N.E.O. Voice Festival in Los Angeles, and the Really Spicy Opera Arial Institute, Mezzo Soprano edition (2020) and Libretto Workshop (2021). Named one of the finalists in the 2017 HGOco Song of Houston Composer Call, her recent awards include grants from the American Composers Forum and Composer Assistance Program from New Music USA. |
| Website: | www.helenamichelson.com |