Hélène Wickett has appeared as piano soloist with major orchestras and in solo recital throughout Europe and the Americas, including acclaimed recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, Paris’ Opéra Comique, Salle Gaveau and Salle Cortot, Rome’s Villa Medici and Washington’s Kennedy Center, New York’s Carnegie Hall as well as solo and concerto recordings for BBC Radio in England and radio and television work in Scandinavia, Holland and France. Her orchestral appearances include some seventy different concertos with the Cleveland, San Francisco, Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Dallas, New Jersey, Florida, Alabama, New Mexico and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras among many others in the United States, as well as with orchestras in England, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, France, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria. Ms. Wickett studied with Alfred Brendel, Nadia Boulanger, Robert Casadesus, Geneviève Joy, Elena Guirola Hitchcock, and Benjamin Kaplan and attended Stanford University. Winner of the Pro Musicis Foundation Award, works by Darius Milhaud, Andrew Imbrie, Robert Rodriguez and Hsueh-Yung Shen have been dedicated to her. A frequent competition adjudicator, she spent a month in China judging the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in 2009 and 2016. She freelances as an orchestral violinist/violist, teaches, and has worked with opera companies coaching singers, as a diction coach thanks to fluency in half a dozen languages, and as a supertitle operator. She is a Steinway artist.
