Helen Charlston

'Charlston’s voice is little short of miraculous… a true star.' The Evening Standard, October 2023

Winner of the London Handel Competition for 2018, Helen Charlston was a BBC New Generation Artist (2021-23), a laureate of Le Jardin des Voix academy with Les Arts Florissants in 2021-22, and recently won a Gramophone Award for best Concept Album and BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award, both for her album ‘Battle Cry’.

An avid recitalist, Helen has given solo recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Leeds Lieder, Oxford Song and Cheltenham Festivals. She is an advocate for contemporary music, particularly that performed on period instruments and regularly commissions new composers.

Beyond her performing life, Helen is an artistic advisor for York Early Music Festival and a Vice President for the Rodolfus Foundation and a Patron of musical charity La Folia.