— A MULTIFACETED MUSICIAN

Helena Ricci is an award-winning, visionary Swiss classical harpist and creative entrepreneur based in London. Known as “an augmented harpist” (Tribune de Genève, 2024), she weaves music with other art forms through cross-disciplinary productions, pioneers new transcriptions and a forward-thinking approach to concert curation. As a media composer, she is currently composing the original soundtrack of the video game Mercantisle. 

— A FREE AND AMBITIOUS SPIRIT

Helena Ricci deliberately chose to forge a path outside the traditional competition circuit to pursue her own creative vision. Her MUS!LUX project — Music + Light = Magic — invites audiences to (re)discover classical music in a new light, in and outside the concert hall.

— A VISION BEYOND MUSIC

MUS!LUX started with the question: How can we, as musicians of our time, best serve our audiences? In 2024 and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Ricci was the sole Creative Project Development Resident at the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy. It saw the creation of her innovative AV show ANIMA. Ricci was featured in an artist portrait by the Swiss national television RTS on Swiss National Day. Last season, she produced and performed in her first ‘Glow in the Dark’ concert at The Stoller Hall in Manchester, followed by the Harrogate International Festivals (UK). 

— ON STAGE

Known for her dynamic stage presence, mesmerising playing and zesty personality, Ricci has performed for HM The King, at the Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, LSO St Luke’s, St George’s Bristol, for the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery and in the West End. She is a current Making Music Artist, a recent City Music Foundation and Stoller Hall Emerging Artist. She was a DEBUT Horizon, Hattori Foundation, and Britten-Pears Young Artist, an alumna of the Encuentro de Santander Academy and Philharmonie der Animato Orchestra with which she toured Europe as principal harpist. Helena Ricci holds a Master of Music degree with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

She plays a crimson David concert harp, made in the Swiss region of Sainte-Croix, where luxury watches are crafted.