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In July 2024 Helen was thrilled to receive National Lottery Arts Council funding for a Develop Your Creative Practice grant. Working
with Acoustics expert Professor Stephen Dance at South Bank University, Helen will explore acoustics, work with Orchestra of the
City to experiment with ideas and work with Foley Artist Humphrey Percival to capture sound to weave into a piece for Orchestra.
Taking her narrative from stories gathered from the City itself, the resulting work will be premiered by Orchestra of the City at
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St. Andrews, Holborn on 20 December 2024, conducted by Chris Hopkins.
news - moon landing
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On the evenings of 28 + 29 February 2024 moon landing, inspired by the little known story of the Navajo and Raytheon women who wove the integrated circuits and memory cores on the Apollo 11 Space mission which resulted in the successful 1969 moon landing, was premiered at Somerset House as part of Collect 24 International Art Fair. Scored for strings, to echo the strings on a loom, moon landing formed part of a duo work conceived in collaboration with textile artist Margo Selby who created an immersive 16 metre installation in response to Helen's score. moon landing, performed with the musicians seated beneath Margo's beautiful work in the stamp stairwell, is a celebration of the mathematical and technical possibilities of weaving and the crossovers of pattern, tone and rhythm found in both music and woven textiles. Performed by Violinists Josie Chapman and Jessica Dugard, Cellists Julia Vohralik and Kirke Gross and Harpists Tamara Young and Gloria Rappo, the premiere performance of moon landing can here be viewed as well as an educational film giving insight as to Margo and Helen's creative process.
A live recording of moon landing is available at https://helencaddick.bandcamp.com/track/moon-landing-live
The moon landing score is available at Composers Edition https://composersedition.com/helencaddick/
​Further performances are anticipated for 2025.
Yanaëlle Thiran in rehearsal at the Martello Tower, Eastbourne
Photo © Yanaëlle Thiran
On Sunday 5 May 2024 a new dance piece created in response to the music of Gun Reborn the first movement from Helen's work Bright Planet, was performed as a site specific solo around the Martello Tower in Eastbourne. Choreographed and performed by contemporary Belgian dance artist Yanaëlle Thiran, Gun Reborn was performed by Yanaëlle as part of The Performance Path, a 4 hour walking tour conceived by the artist.
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On Saturday 25 May, 2024, Helen's work We are Here was premiered at the Schouwburg Noord in Antwerp, Belgium. Inspired by the brave women of Afghanistan who held this statement aloft on a banner to protest for their rights to work and education, We are Here was performed by the Lilith ensemble - the first contemporary chamber music ensemble in the world dedicated to performing works by female composers. The Lilith ensemble commissioned this work as part of 10 international commissions by female composers. They are committed to 'innovative, socially-conscious, genre-fluid performances', February 2024 saw the release of We are Here on the Lilith Ensemble's CD collection which is now available on the LORELT label. The work will be choreographed in 2025 for the National Dance Company of Guatamala by Ana Villiers.
Here's Tom with the Weather
December 2023 saw the re-release of Shack’s critically acclaimed album Here’s Tom with the Weather which features Helen’s string writing and arrangements, one of 3 collaborations with Michael and John Head which began with The Magical World of the Strands album and 2003’s Time Machine.
