Karen Helga, piano
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Helga Karen (1991) is a Finnish pianist and researcher specialized in performance of classical contemporary music. She has performed as a soloist and chamber music musician in various contemporary music festivals such as Lucerne Festival, SoundScape, Musica Nova, Impuls Academy and International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt. In 2021 Helga started working as a member of Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders and became a co-curator of the autumn event Lucerne Festival Forward. She works as a piano tutor during the Festival Academy 2021–2024.
Helga has given world premiere performances of works for piano solo and chamber music, as well as played as a member of such orchestras and ensembles as Ensemble Lemniscate, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta and Lucerne Festival Academy. She is a member of Earth Ears Ensemble with the goal of enlivening contemporary music performance with focus on experimentation and presenting lesser heard ideas and voices in new concert settings. Additionally, Helga is interested in producing and performing music theatre shows for kids and youth. In 2019 she co-wrote and performed the children show "Fairytales without Words", which was shown in Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. Helga has won several prizes at various competitions, as a soloist and with chamber music groups. She has received her Diploma in piano pedagogy from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, completed her pedagogical studies in Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien and received her Master in Specialized Performance in Contemporary Music Degree from Basel Music Academy in 2016. She has studied under the tutelage of Jürg Henneberger, Mike Svoboda, Marcus Weiss, Joonas Pohjonen, Manon-Liu Winter and Ella Untamala. Currently Helga is working on her PhD on Stockhausen's piano pieces at Sibelius Academy, where she is employed as a salaried doctoral candidate. |
Kuva: Anna-Maria Viksten/Valotus by Ama
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