Helen has taught at a number of post-secondary educational centres in the USA and Canada. Most recently she was Associate Professor of Music at the University of Regina, where she taught in Music and Creative Technologies.

Retired from university teaching, Helen is still available for lectures, lecture-recitals and workshops at conferences and teaching institutions. Here are some recent sessions:

  • lecture and workshop, Arts and Humanities Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2023. With Dr. Chelsea Jones, Dr. Joanne Weber, and Abneet Abwal. Supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant
  • improvisation sessions with members of Listen to Dis Community Arts Organization and The Deaf Crows Collective, Regina, summer 2022.Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
  • vocal improvisation sessions, Listen to Dis Community Arts Organization, summer 2021
  • voice and looper improvisation sessions, Big Sky Centre for Learning and Being Astonished, Regina, 2019-20
  • vocal improvisation workshop, Sound Symposium, NL, July 2018
  • vocal workshop for young people, Valley Arts Pelican Festival, Fort Qu’Appelle SK, July 2016
  • lecture/workshop at IICSI Colloquium “Improvisation as Intercultural Contact and Dialogue”, Memorial University, St. John’s NL, July 2016
  • lecture/workshop at IICSI Colloquium “Breathturns: Improvisation and Freedom”, UBC,Vancouver BC, June 2016
  • improvisation workshop, Anahuac University, Mexico, March 2016
  • workshop in improvising and listening, NAIN Connect Conference, Regina SK, July 2015
  • workshop in vocal technique for the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association, Saskatoon SK, October 2014
  • improvisation workshop sponsored by Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (www.icasp.ca), Guelph ON, January 2014
  • improvisation workshop at Studio C, Calgary AB, April 2013
  • lecture-recital at “Credo:  The Future of Cage” conference, University of Toronto, October 2012

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Helen has also adjudicated at music festivals across Canada, including the Saskatchewan Provincial Festival, Nova Scotia Provincial Festival, Queens County Music Festival, PEI, Saskatoon Music Festival, PEI Provincial Festival, Brandon Festival of the Arts, and many others.

Here’s a student comment: when asked by a professor at the University of Regina to name a performer who had influenced them in 2015, this student wrote “Lady that sang Love Hurts with her whole body”.

Photo by WL Altman


Studio C Sound Walk

Helen and participants explore their voices inside the sculptures in downtown Calgary

Helen leads a vocal improv session with participants in the Astonished!  Summer Literacy Program, Regina, 2019

Helen leads a vocal improv session with participants in the Astonished! Summer Literacy Program, Regina, 2019