Helena Michelson is a composer based in the San Francisco-Bay Area. First trained as a pianist, she studied piano with Mack McCray at the San Francisco Conservatory Pre-College and, in masterclasses, with Richard Goode and Awadagin Pratt. She completed her studies in Music at the University of California, Berkeley (BA) and University of California, Davis (PhD).

She has been a fellow at numerous festivals including Composers Conference, June in Buffalo, Domaine Forget, Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, Source Song Festival, and Choral Arts Initiative. She has been a participating composer in Music by Women Festival, New Music at the Bayou, the Opera from Scratch program (Halifax, Canada), N.E.O. Voice Festival, and the Really Spicy Opera Aria Institute series of workshops.

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