Helen Thomas

Courses: Chamber Music  Wind Ensemble

Helen is an oboist and conductor with a PhD in Music and a research interest in arts, health and wellbeing. She was invited to become the wind tutor of the Workers Musical Association Summer School in 2019 since when she has enjoyed finding and arranging repertoire specifically for participant ensembles each year.

Helen is an oboist with of Liverpool Bach Collective, Liverpool Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Arte, St John's Festival Orchestra and Wirral Symphony Orchestra. She is the conductor of Chester Sinfonia and also regularly conducts Hope Metropolitan Orchestra. She enjoys discovering and sharing works by female composers as well as the 'classics'. In 2024 she conducted concerts in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral although she also likes to present work in less familiar venues such as art galleries and even the furniture department of John Lewis in Chester.

Helen is a Trustee of Mahogany Opera, a leading commissioner and producer of new opera and music theatre which aims to stretch the boundaries of what opera can be and who it is for.