Annie Tyson
Anthony Cornish
Aoife Smyth
Barb Jungr
Blanca Regina Perez-Bustamante Yabar
Brendan Murray
Cèzanne Tegelberg
Chris White
Christian Damsgaard
Claire Russ
Freddie Machin
Gareth Armstrong
George Ryan
Gian-Franco Bossari
Graeme Du Fresne
Graeme Du Fresne
Helen Ireland
Henning Silberg
Jack Gogarty
Janice Dunn
Jen Heyes
Jessica O'Hara-Baker
John Gillett
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Dawes
Julia McLeish
Kate Colgrave-Pope
Katy Stephens
Keith Myers
Kevin Kiernan-Molloy
Lawrence Evans
Linda Polan
Lolly Susi
Lyall Watson
Lyndi Smith
Maria Hansted Lohmann
Michael Howard
Michael Slebsager
Mike McCormack
Mitch Mitchelson
Natasha Rickman
Nini Pitt
Noël Greig
Peta Lily
Phil Clark
Philippa Strandberg-Long
Rhys Thomas
Ris Widdicombe
Sally Gritton
Sarah Case
Simon de Deney
Simon Naylor
Simone Coxall
Stephanie Hume
Steve Jarand
Sue Colgrave
Tom Noyes
Tony Casement
Will Evans

Helen Ireland

Helen studied the piano at the Royal Northern College of Music and at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in the US.   She graduated from the University of Birmingham and has many years' experience as an accompanist and ensemble player, coach and teacher. She first worked in the theatre on the musical The Hired Man (Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg)

Theatre credits as Musical Director include: The Snow Queen, Tom Jones, The Brewery Beano, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Our Day Out (Derby Playhouse); Amid The Standing Corn (Joint Stock); Claw (Theatr Clwyd); Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Suicide (National Youth Theatre); Mummy's Boy, Little Shop of Horrors, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Theatre in Trust); Fiddler On The Roof (conducting German tours); The Red Balloon (Bristol Old Vic); Company (Northcott, Exeter); The Pied Piper (Birmingham Rep.); Candide (Liverpool Everyman and Tour); The Hired Man (Theatre-by-the-Lake, Keswick); Godspell (working with David Essex in Africa on behalf of VSO with a cast of Ugandan students); Cabaret (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Square Rounds, Trelawny of The Wells, The Skriker, The Way of the World and Richard II (Royal National Theatre).

She has taught choral singing and song interpretation to adults and children, both professional and amateur, in a wide variety of educational projects, in schools, colleges and summer schools.  Currently she coaches actors at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and at Fourth Monkey in London.

(last updated 2015)

Helen Ireland was a summer school tutor in: 1993 1996 1997 1998 2003 2015 2016