{"id":26931,"date":"2024-03-12T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/?page_id=26931"},"modified":"2024-03-12T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:47:43","slug":"helen-styles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/faculty\/helen-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26932 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Helen-Styles-headshot-258x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Helen-Styles-headshot-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Helen-Styles-headshot-881x1024.png 881w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Helen-Styles-headshot-768x892.png 768w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Helen-Styles-headshot-775x900.png 775w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Helen-Styles-headshot.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/>Born into a musical family Helen started the violin aged four in Adelaide, South Australia. Once back in the UK her singing really took off when she was awarded a choral scholarship to Christ\u2019s College Cambridge where she studied veterinary medicine. She qualified and worked as a vet (with a particular interest in cats), but the music called her back and she has been making her living as a musician since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>She is a qualified Suzuki violin and viola teacher, director of <a href=\"https:\/\/singingstringssuzuki.mystrikingly.com\">Singing Strings workshop<\/a> and regularly teaches on string courses around the UK. As a singer she performed in the UK and abroad and has established herself as a versatile choral conductor, specialising in working with community choirs, alongside directing regular \u201cCome and Sing\u201d workshops. She directs <a href=\"http:\/\/twyford-singers.org.uk\">Twyford Singers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vetchoiruk.mystrikingly.com\">VetChoir UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the UK lockdowns of 2020-2021 Helen and her children started \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BzBjg9u65-A\">Sing a Song a Day<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a daily live online singing session (with over 200 sessions) which gained a worldwide audience and was commended by the Royal Philharmonic Society for their Inspiration Award, offering people a sense of fun and community during a disjointed time.<\/p>\n<p>Helen believes passionately that music is for everyone: you are never too young or old to be part of the musical community and friendships made through music-making last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born into a musical family Helen started the violin aged four in Adelaide, South Australia. Once back in the UK her singing really took off when she was awarded a choral scholarship to Christ\u2019s College Cambridge where she studied veterinary medicine. She qualified and worked as a vet (with a particular interest in cats), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26925,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26938,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26931\/revisions\/26938"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}