Background
Helen was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, to Timothy and Jill (Drinkwater) Rupp.
Helen was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, to Timothy and Jill (Drinkwater) Rupp.
She has released around 95 singles onto the internet via websites such as Reverbnation and Soundcloud, creating at four albums (Including "Up The Creek" an album written in the space of two weeks). She has worked with several musicians on a renowned composition summer-school course at the Purcell School of Music with company "Sound And Music" (including tabla player Kuljit Bahmra). Currently, she is working on improving her classical repertoire and also on a fifth album: a set of two CDs aptly named "V".
She started playing piano aged 3 but took her first exam (ABRSM) aged 10 (after starting violin lessons aged 6 and taking her first exam aged 9)
since 2013(Present)
The second year of GCSEs was a game changer in her musical direction.
Helen was pulled out of the classroom and left alone in the Music Technical room for the school year"s music lessons. Using the score writing computer program: Sibelius (by Avid), she increased her compositional skill significantly.
In this time she discovered a passion for writing music During the 2013 Sound And Music Summer School she worked with renowned vocal group "Juice", writing a piece called "The Eulogy of a Country Bypass".
The piece was based on a Roald Dahl poem (which in turn was based on another poem) and the idea of a busy motorway put into vocal context.
After this experience the quality in Helen"s work just kept rising. The piece "The Mechanical Minion", written for the brief "Rise of the Machines" for the Edexcel Music Exams that year, opened up the gate to the madness that can been seen in her later works. She spent most of that school year writing music to enhance her own skill in doing southern
This culminated in her second confirmed place at the Sound And Music Summer School.
At the 2014 SAM Summer School, Helen worked with the Purcell School Composition Teacher, Alison Cox, and her group of World Musicians (Anne Denholm, Jordan Black, Joe Chapman and Kuljit Bhamra). Instead of writing a "University worthy" piece of professional music
She took things way out of the box, writing a piece of theatrical music called "Lifting Ireland". The piece starts with the harpist being interrupted by an "audience member" playing the spoons (originally done by clarinetist and composer: Lloyd Coleman) and ending with the clarinetist fainting.
Helen is currently studying Music at Middlesex University.
