Tuesday Musicale
April 12th
Program
at 7:30

Helen Bryant is a junior at the University of Michigan where she is pursuing a double major in Piano Performance and Historical Musicology. Helen is a student of Christopher Harding. In 2018, she won second prize at the 18th Osaka International Competition, held in Osaka, Japan. Helen performed on the Molly Blank Concert Series at the Bremen Museum in Atlanta in 2019, where she was featured on NPR’s From the Top. She was featured again on the show in 2020. Helen has won top prizes in competitions including the MTNA and the Steinway Piano competitions. She received 2nd prize at the 2017 Emory Young Artists Competition and was the runner-up at the 2018 MTNA Southern Division Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with the Atlanta Community Symphony, Rome Symphony, and the North Georgia Chamber Orchestra. She has studied privately and in masterclasses with artists including Matti Raekallio, Boris Slutsky, and Ursula Oppens. She is an alumna of the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival. Helen is also a writer and works as a research assistant for the University of Michigan Gershwin Initiative and Critical Edition. Recently, she was named a research fellow for the Hampsong Foundation’s Song of America website, where her research focuses on BIPOC American song composers and poets. In her early studies near Atlanta, she was a student of Dr. Alexander Wasserman. Other primary influences include extensive private studies with Yong Hi Moon and Julian Martin.