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Performance Today broadcast Helen's live-in-studio interview and performance with Fred Child on June 10th. Timothy Lovelace (Professor of Piano at the University of Minnesota) joined Helen for the interview. Click here for the site, go to Special Features and scroll down. |
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Helen has just signed with Analekta - Canada's largest independant record company. Several projects are in discussion this year including a three disc set of the complete Bach Suites, Gamba Sonatas and JS Bach Concerto in E Flat. |
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In summer 2010 Helen will travel to London to record an exciting new concerto cd with the BBC Concert Orchestra with the Dutton Epoch recording Company. Check out their web site and their adventurous programming (Cover art shown here of British Light Music Premieres) |
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If you are in the Central Coast/LA area come and hear Helen play with the Juilliard String Quartet for the Arts and Lectures Recital series at UCSB April 14th in Campbell Hall. Check the website for more info in the Fall |
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Helen will be giving her Carnegie Hall Debut in Fall of 2010 with Phillip Bush - piano. Stay tuned for more news to come! |
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Come and hear Helen teach and play on her 2009 University Recital & Masterclass Series |
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Check out Helen's profile on the Carrabba Violins Web Site |
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"Summer Study in Santa Barbara!" If you are interested in working with Helen during the 2009 summer season please contact her directly (info found on 'Contact' page). Teaching and playing festivals for the 2010 summer season in Europe are already planned. If you are interested in reserving a space for lessons, check back here for more details. |
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"Callus again shows that she is one of the world's greatest violists. Her playing is so deeply felt the music's message goes straight to the heart. Her playing is alternately delicately nuanced and bold, and the new viola she plays by Gabrielle Kundert has a rich, sweet tone with apparently limitless reserves. I suspect this is why she plays with an unprecedented freedom here, and I would love to hear her play this instrument in person. Her two recital discs are among the finest made by any violist and should be in the collection of all viola lovers." -American Record Guide |
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Come and hear Helen perform at the Highlands Cashier Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina with William Preucil and Kate Ransom violins; Charae Krueger, cello; Janet Clippard, bass; Will Ransom on piano. |
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Listen to Helen performing with Phillip Bush and Robert Koenig regularly on Performance Today. Tune in for her live interview later this year! |
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STRINGS MAGAZINE 'BEST VIOLA WORKS' - 11 top players pick their all-time favorites! |
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Helen has accepted the position of Artistic Director of the Centrum Chamber Music Festival in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington. Centrum is pleased to welcome the Tokyo String Quartet as its ensemble-in-residence in 2008 (June 22-29, 2008). Additional faculty this year include Robert Koenig, Desmond Hoebig, Andrew Dawes, and the Attaca Quartet. For more info, as well as application/audition details, please visit the website. |
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Helen's CD 'WALTON' on ASV has been named as the most beautiful recording on disc of the concerto by the Penguin Guide 2006/7 with a top rating of 3 stars. Other artists to be awarded in the Walton category are Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), and Joshua Bell (violin).
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New Release! Acclaimed pianist Phillip Bush and Helen join forces again (Saint Paul Sunday) in a new recording to be released September 2007 by ASV Sanctuary Classics UK. Works to include previously unrecorded repertoire arranged by Vadim Borrisovsky, Lionel Tertis and William Primrose. Click here to buy on Amazon. Click here to buy on iTunes. See the new ad! Also, read a recent review in Gramophone Magazine. |
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Helen was been invited to give masterclasses, performances and residencies at over 15 schools in 2008 including Indiana University, Cleveland Institute, Oberlin College and Conservatory, Rice University, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory and the Cinccinati College Conservatory of Music among others. Link: The 2008 Masterclass Schedule. |
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On Sunday, October 13th, at 11:00am, Helen will present a masterclass at the Music Institute of Chicago, followed by a special open meeting of the Chicago Viola Society (at 2pm). Please join us! Click here to view the .pdf file for this event and find out more information. |
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Read the new review in the American Record Guide July/August 2007
"The night I wrote this review, I found her performance so moving, so addicting, that I kept listening to it over and over before I could bring myself to finish the review and go to bed. Very rarely have I felt a need to listen to a recording over and over. Only really great artistry can hold a listener in thrall like that, and that is the artistry of Helen Callus."
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Helen is invited to talk with Jim Sveja of KUSC Los Angeles for an evening of viola music, her recordings and career (audio coming soon!) |
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Helen has been invited to perform and teach a masterclass at the Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference May 2008, Memorial Weekend, May 24-26 in Minneapolis. Please visit the web site for more info |
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Helen will perform Bach's Brandenburg 6 with Heiichiro Ohyama and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra September 18th 2007 |
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Helen has been invited to give the college level masterclass at the ASTA convention March 7-11th 2007 in Detroit. Jeffrey Irvine will be giving the pre college viola masterclass |
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Look out for the new MASTERCLASS articles in upcoming Strings magazines on the York Bowen Viola Concerto and the William Walton Viola Concerto - coming soon! |
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You can now find Helen's recordings on iTunes!!! Click here to access Portrait of the Viola, and here for Walton: Viola Concerto |
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STRINGS MAGAZINE - Feature Article
"The Advocate - Helen Callus is probably the best friend the viola world ever had." [article] |
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NPR's Saint Paul Sunday broadcast with Helen and Phillip Bush [SPS] |