Helena Baillie
Helena Baillie was born in London to a musical family. She graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music where she studied violin and viola. Her 2008 New York violin recital debut at Bargemusic was hailed by The Strad magazine for its
‘brilliance and poignance.’ Helena has appeared in chamber music with Pinchas Zukerman and with the Beaux Arts Trio at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. She has performed at Carnegie Hall in the Alexander Schneider Series and given recitals throughout Europe and the United States. She is the recipient of numerous awards, among which, the Barenreiter-urtext prize at the 2004 Munich ARD competition as well as prizes at the 2001 Banff and 2003 Tertis competitions. Her performances are regularly broadcast on Performance Today for American Public Radio. The first violinists of the Guarneri, Emerson, Vermeer, Juilliard and Tokyo quartets were Helena’s teachers: Arnold Steinhardt, Philip Setzer, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Robert Mann and Peter Oundjian. She studied viola at Curtis with Roberto Diaz and Joseph de Pasquale, and with Wilfried Strehle, principal viola, Berlin Philharmonic. Isaac Stern, Lorand Fenyves, Felix Galimir, and Leon Fleisher guided Helena in chamber music.