Helen Grime
Born: 1981, York, UK
Nationality: Scottish
Helen Grime is a Scottish composer of contemporary classical music. Her work, Virga, was selected as one of the best ten new classical works of the 2000s by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She is married to the composer and pianist Huw Watkins.
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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Winter 2025
18th Dec 2025
In our latest round-up of contemporary music releases, Ben celebrates the work of two nonagenarians, explores the colour spectrum through the orchestra, enjoys pictorial British chamber music, and find the twenty-first-century symphony to be in rude health.
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Bracing Change - Helen Grime on contemporary string quartets
11th Apr 2023
Scottish composer Helen Grime discusses her second string quartet, which features on the second volume of Bracing Change string commissions from NMC and the Wigmore Hall.
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Concertos
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- A Cold Spring (1)
- Braid Hills (1)
- Bright Travellers (2)
- Clarinet Concerto (1)
- Council Offices (from Bright Travellers) (1)
- Elegiac Inflections (1)
- Everyone Sang (2)
- Fanfares (1)
- Five North-Eastern Scenes (1)
- Harp of the North (1)
- Into the faded air (2)
- Miniatures (10) (1)
- Miniatures (3) (1)
- Near Midnight (1)
- Night Songs (1)
- Nobody Comes (2)
- Seven Pierrot Miniatures (1)
- Snow and Snow (1)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1)
- Telling (1)
- The Silver Moon (1)
- To See the Summer Sky (1)
- Virga (1)
- Whistler Miniatures (3) (2)
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Helen Grime: Violin Concerto
Malin Broman, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Concerto Choice
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Helen Grime: Chamber Music
Hebrides Ensemble
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The Silent Pool: British Piano Music By Women Composers
Peter Jacobs (piano)
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NMC at 35
Onyx Brass (brass ensemble), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Jane Manning (soprano), Roger Smalley, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, Ziazan, Mark Padmore (tenor), Richard Watkins (horn), Huw Watkins (piano), Thomas Hewitt Jones, Ruby Philogene, Lawrence Zazzo, Timothy Dawkins, Philip Sheffield, Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Andrew Hewitt, Stephen Rooke, Adam Walker (flute), Robin O’Neill, Linda Buckley, Iarla Ó’lionáird, Andrew Zolinsky, Rinat Shaham (mezzo-soprano), Michael Chance, Lucy Wakeford (harp), Stephan Loges (baritone), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Barry Webb, Christopher Redgate, Joanna Bailie, Mira Benjamin (violin), Bridget Carey, Alice Purton, Gwen Reed, Ilze Ikse, Mark Knoop (piano), Rakhi Singh (violin), Northern Sinfonia, Spectrum, Jane's Minstrels, Ensemble X, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Arianna Ensemble, NYCGB Fellowship, Philharmonia Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Hallé Children's Choir, The Nash Ensemble, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Plus-Minus Ensemble, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vessel, NYX, Thomas Zehetmair, Guy Protheroe, Roger Montgomery, Nicholas Kok, Martyn Brabbins, Sir Andrew Davis, Ilan Volkov, Jamie Phillips, Kevin John Edusei, Simon Halsey, William Lacey, Ryan Wigglesworth, Ben Parry, Mark Wigglesworth, Sir Simon Rattle, Mark Elder, Lionel Friend, Nicholas Kraemer, Oliver Knussen, Clark Rundell
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