Chelsea Helm

With spirit and sensitivity, soprano Chelsea Helm brings a versatile voice to the concert stage. An active choral artist, Ms. Helm appears regularly with Seraphic Fire, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, True Concord Voices & Orchestra, and Conspirare, with whom she was nominated for 2020 and 2022 GRAMMY® awards for Best Choral Album. Last season she was also heard with Kinnara, the Carmel Bach Festival, the American Soloists Ensemble, and Voices of Ascension.

As an oratorio soloist, she recently made her international debut performing Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with the National Chorus of Korea, conducted by Euijoong Yoon. She also enjoys frequent concert appearances around the United States, which have included the Brahms Requiem, Haydn’s Theresienmesse and Paukenmesse, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and the Verdi Requiem in a new chamber arrangement. A Michigan native, Ms. Helm has been featured in concert with the Grand Rapids Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Muskegon Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Festival Orchestra, the Rice University Orchestra, and at the University of Wisconsin La-Crosse and Missouri State University. Last season she presented art song recitals in New Mexico, Virginia, and Utah.

Ms. Helm holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Music Education from Western Michigan University. Also a WMU Gold Company alumna, Ms. Helm recorded a Downbeat award-winning album in 2013 with vocal jazz quartet the Four Corners. She is based in New York City.