Helix Music was granted charitable status in June 2025, registered number 1213628.
Artistic Aims
The aim of Helix Music is to foster the transformative power of music by creating accessible and dynamic performance opportunities that engage, inspire, and educate diverse audiences. We are committed to promoting artistic excellence and innovation by supporting both emerging and established musicians across a range of genres.
Peter Hugh White says: It is difficult to exaggerate how much getting my new opera, Rosalind, into a fully staged production would mean to me as a composer. I have written music all my life and am fortunate that almost everything that I have composed has been performed at some time, but the prospect of a fully professional performance of this significant work would I believe, help to transform my profile as a composer.
I studied composition at Oxford in the 1970s but with a family to support, composition has, for the most part, had to take second place to my work as a teacher. The difficulty of getting professional performances of your music is well known to all composers, and the financial hurdles and complexities of bringing a new opera to the stage are enormous. The opportunities to get new works by relatively unknown composers into the established opera companies is effectively non-existent.
However, the excitement that has been generated following the studio performance at The National Opera Studio, the enthusiasm of King‘s College London to host this first staged production and the extremely positive reaction of all the musicians engaged for this venture have given me the confidence to believe that this performance will happen.