Compositions

In addition to writing solo vocal works for herself, Helen has composed music for choirs, instrumental ensembles, and young singers. Many of these works include opportunities to improvise.
If you’re a musician who does not improvise, here is your chance to try it out!

Contact Helen to purchase copies of the following scores:

    Vocal

Songs for Young Singers: solo songs written to correlate with the grade levels of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto:
Grade I: At the Lake
What’s Your Favourite Colour?
Grade II: Today’s Adventure
Grade III: Weeping Willow
Grade IV: I Got Trapped in the School
Grade V: Groceries!
Grade VI: A Full Moon
Grade VII: Chickadee
Grade VIII: Current Mood
Grade IX: At the Opera
Grade X: Our Rights, Our Freedoms (based on the Canadian Charter of Rights

    Choral

Follow Love, for SATB, piano and cello
All Our Relations, for SATB a cappella
Prairie Harbour, for SA and piano
Seeking Love, for SA and piano
We’re We, for SA or SATB and piano

        • Instrumental Ensemble

For Evelyn, for any combination of instruments
Five by Twenty Five, for any combination of instruments
I Shall Not Say I, for voice and two acoustic instruments

 

photo:  University of Regina New Music Ensemble