Helena Raeburn | Singer, Performer & Teacher

Live | Session | Improvising

Helena is an experienced vocalist who is adept at singing in different styles, including folk, choral, jazz, pop, rock, acapella and musical theatre.

Performing experience includes studio session work, live radio broadcasts and filmed performances as well as musicals, opera, plays, cabaret, panto and events.

She trained in Classical Singing and Musical Theatre (RAM) and is an experienced choral singer, a quick reader and a sensitive improviser.

Solo and Stage

Soul Ballad - Goodby Innocence - Bevely Knight

00:00 / 00:44

Gentle Folky - RSC - Compass of Winds

00:00 / 00:22

Sultry Jazz - Lost and Found - City of Angels

00:00 / 00:36

Light swing then ride it home!

00:00 / 00:41

Choral and Classical

Ethereal sop - RSC - Glimmering Light

00:00 / 00:35

Multitracked Sop - National Theatre

00:00 / 00:33

Multitracked textures - top 3 lines - National Theatre

00:00 / 00:33

Improvised Tracks

Belting across the Desert - Album for Anxiety

00:00 / 00:58

High Harmonies - Stillism - Ambient Album

00:00 / 00:21

Improvised Language - Stilism - Ambient Album

00:00 / 00:23

Credits include -

Live

- Singing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for over a decade, including the production of Richard II with David Tennant.

- Stand-in vocalist for rehearsals of 'My Neighbour Totoro'

- Performing with choral group 'Celeste' and 'Gareth Malone's Voices'.

- 'The Witch' in Sondheim's 'Into the Woods'

Session

- Music for numerous Royal Shakespeare Company albums

- Vocals for the National Theatre's production of Phaedra, music by Stefan Gregory

Improvised Vocals

- An album to ease anxiety by Tom Clarke from The Enemy

- Stillism, an album to promote wellbeing and relaxation