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Howard Helvey
is among the most widely published composers of his generation.
Awarded the international choral-composition first prize in 2006 by the John Ness
Beck Foundation, his hundreds of works are published by over twenty major
American and British companies, and are regularly performed and recorded
throughout the world. Recent highlights include performances of his music by the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Choir of King's College (Cambridge, England), the
BBC Singers, the Kansas City Chorale, Conspirare (Austin), The Crossing
(Philadelphia), the Choirs of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC), Chicago
a cappella, the Turtle Creek Chorale, and in the English cathedrals of Ely,
Liverpool, Christ Church (Oxford), York, Hereford, Norwich, Chester, and Wells.
Mr. Helvey also concertizes frequently as a pianist, conducts (and co-founded) the
professional Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble, and in 1998 was appointed as
organist/choirmaster of historic Calvary Episcopal Church in Cincinnati. With
cognate studies in conducting, voice, organ, and poetry, he holds undergraduate
and graduate degrees in composition and piano performance from the University of
Missouri (Columbia) and the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of
Music, and, as a Chautauqua Scholar, studied piano at New York's Chautauqua
Institution.
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