Helen Charlston

Helen Charlston’s ability to make each performance completely her own and her depth of connection with audiences has earned her international acclaim as “one of the most exciting voices in the new generation of British singers” (Alexandra Coghlan, Gramophone). She  was recently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist (2021-23), and was the 2023 Gramophone Award winner for Best Concept Album and also collected the Vocal award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for her second Delphian album: Battle Cry. 

This season, Helen makes her debut at Dutch National Opera in the world premiere of Michel van der Aa’s Theory of Flames in the role of Marianne. On the concert platform she sings the title role in Solomon with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mozart Requiem at Casa da Musica under Andreas Spering and also the Czech Philharmonic under Giovanni Antonini, Bach B minor mass with De Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Richard Egarr, Bach St Matthew Passion with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Laurence Cummings, and Dido Dido & Aeneas on tour in Asia and Europe with Les Arts Florissants. In recital she collaborates with the Consone Quartet at the Brighton Early Music Festival and also at Oxford Song, with Sholto Kynoch at the Wimbledon Festival and the National Centre for Early Music amongst other venues, with Roman Rabinovich in Canada, and she performs an ensemble programme at Fundación Juan March in Madrid.

Further appearances on the concert platform include Bach B minor mass with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the BBC Proms, Britten’s Phaedra live in concert with BBC Philharmonic, Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus with the RIAS Kammerchor at the Berlin Philharmonie, and also Bach’s Magnificat in South Korea, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with WDR Köln. 

Updated September 2025