Helen Parker

studied with a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music and her work has included Alphise in Rameau’s Les Boréades with Sir Simon Rattle at the Salzburg Festival, first lady in Mozart’s Magic Flute with Richard Hickox, performances with the New London Consort in Rome, Amsterdam, Spain, Italy and New Zealand, the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Helen has appeared with the City of London Sinfonia, the Scholars Baroque Ensemble, the Northern Sinfonia and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has recorded Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Handel’s Messiah (Naxos), Monteverdi’s Combattimento and Locke’s Psyche (Decca), Allegri’s Miserere (Sony), Purcell’s The Indian Queen (Decca), pieces by Percy Grainger (Chandos) and Linley’s Shakespeare Ode (Philips).