Background
Helen Gifford was born in Melbourne, Australia, of Scots and Cornish heritage.
Helen Gifford was born in Melbourne, Australia, of Scots and Cornish heritage.
She attended Tintern Junior School and Melbourne Girls Grammar, and then the University of Melbourne Conservatorium on a Commonwealth Scholarship. She studied with Roy Shepherd and Dorian Le Gallienne, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1958.
In the 1960s and early "70s, her music showed the influence of travel to India and Indonesia.