Helena Ricci’s exclusive interview for the Cross-Eyed Pianist’s “Meet the artist” series as a newly awarded City Music Foundation Artist. Read the full interview here.

Helena Ricci is welcomed to the City Music Foundation Artists family with this exclusive Q&A. Read the interview here.

Chosen to represent City Music Foundation’s Artists, harpist Helena Ricci had the honour to meet and play for His Majesty The King. She played a selection of solo pieces in Barts Heritage North Wing, as part of its 900th anniversary restoration appeal.

More about this event here

Helena Ricci has been awarded a coveted place as a City Music Foundation, joining this prestigious two-year development programme and management for young exceptional musicians in the UK. She is the second harpist ever to have been chosen, marking the debut to a new exciting collaboration as an ambassador for her instrument.

After competitive auditions with a record number of applicants, Helena Ricci has won a coveted place as a City Music Foundation Artist, the second harpist ever to win the title.

As part of the Royal Opera House “Live at Lunch” series, following a performer’s illness, Helena Ricci steps in within 36 hours to present a solo recital in the iconic Paul Hamlyn Hall.

Following her highly successful solo recital at Highams Park All Saints Church, Helena Ricci has received some glowing feedback by the Waltham Forest Music Society, immediately being invited back for their next season.

Read the review by the Society’s Secretary Ian Brown here

Helena Ricci receives a coveted and prestigious Hattori Foundation Senior Award, following a competitive, multiple round audition across all classical instrumentalists.

Alongside this prize, she is offered a concert at the iconic 1901 Arts Club in Central London.

More information of the Hattori Foundation website

Helena Ricci returns to Snape Maltings as a Britten Pears Young Artist alumna.

In addition to the 50th anniversary of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, 2022 marks 30 years since the flagship Composition and Performance Course was founded by Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews. The intensive week-long course, with composers and performers working closely together, gives participants a uniquely collaborative and in-depth experience of music-making. In November 2022, the course will continue to support the next generation of composers and performers specialising in contemporary music.

The pieces in this playlist were written on the Composition and Performance Course in 2019 and performed in the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2022.

Helena Ricci joins flutist Stephanie Tepper in a livestreamed concert for the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery series, broadcast live on their Youtube Channel. Programme includes a mix of duo and solo pieces, as well as a live Q&A interview, presented by Rachel Leach.

Watch the livestream

Helena Ricci wins a week-long residency at the New Diorama Theatre Brodgate in the City of London to develop her MUS!LUX enterprise, merging classical music, technology and art.

An alumna of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, both as a Master of Music and Creative Entrepreneur, award-winning harpist Helena Ricci talks about her experience working for the Age UK Camden-Guildhall partnership throughout the pandemic. Stories of resilience, the power of music and its innate ability to connect us.

Read the magazine and interview here

Helena Ricci’s debut single release of her own transcription of Rameau’s ethereal and moving "Le Rappel des Oiseaux” is featured on this week’s Spotify “New Classical Releases” playlist.

About this music, Helena says: "Le Rappel des Oiseaux" is dedicated to my grandparents who recently celebrated 60 years together. It's a recording I did for them honouring how they approach life with love, resilience, forgiveness and battle the storms of life together like the two birds in Rameau's delightful, sorrowful yet hopeful music. We're all apart from people we love these days, so this is a longing for the time when we can hug those we love.”

Listen to the single on Spotify