Helen Pridmore

Helen Pridmore is a singer and sound artist, with a focus on contemporary scored music, experimental music and improvisation. She has performed across Canada and the US, including a solo appearance at Carnegie Hall. Helen has also performed in Europe, Mexico and Japan. She has three CDs to her name, including …between the shore and the ships…, which won the 2013 East Coast Music Award for Best Classical Recording.

Helen’s current focus is on the technology of the voice and the body, with explorations into the concepts of aural beauty, space and silence. She is writing and performing new works for voice that employ both structure and improvisation. One of her current projects is her solo voice work Sor Juana and the Silences, which will be touring Canada in the 2020-21 season. Helen also shares her ideas with students and community members via workshops and improvisation sessions. With degrees from the Universities of Saskatchewan and Toronto, and the Eastman School of Music, Helen is recently left her role a a faculty member in Music and Creative Technologies at the University of Regina to continue her artistic career.

Click to see her sub project for multiPLAY which is called So Near and Yet So Far