Helen Roe
Composer
Whether or not my pieces have an overtly religious theme, they all stem from my early
experience of the church and its music. I remember being astounded to realise that
the most extravagant expressions of love, despair, grief and joy could be contained
within the formality of ritual. There was a particular quality of attention, too-
“In the music Helen Roe has been writing I’m hearing the unsimple colours that move in the mind’s eye and the unremembered spaces between expected sounds, and I’m beginning to get hooked on tunes that filter through densities of silence to make aural atmospheres that have to be climbed for, jumped for, and reached over abysses for. New action.”
Russell Hoban
“Meticulously crafted and highly individual, her music is always a pleasure to perform, and she herself possesses the quiet tenacity and strong sense of purpose to carry her intentions through most impressively, despite other demands on her time and energy.”
Jane Manning
Click HERE to listen to Helen’s recent choral composition, Speak, Mary