Passionate about teaching, Helene has been inspiring students since her own undergraduate days. Prior to moving to New Zealand she was on the Preparatory/Extension Division faculty at both the New England Conservatory and San Francisco Conservatory, where she started young children on the violin, prepared high school students for their conservatory entrance auditions, and taught adult amateurs. In New Zealand she was on the staff of the Victoria University School of Music (later NZ School of Music Te Kōkı) from 1994 to 2024, teaching generations of violinists and chamber musicians to reach their expressive potential through a combination of caring and individualised technical and musical guidance. Her former students are members of the NZ Symphony Orchestra and the Christchurch Symphony, chamber musicians, music teachers, composers, doctors, musicologists, music administrators and acrobatics instructors. Co-founder of the Adam Chamber Music Summer School and founder and administrator of the Wellington Chamber Music Intensive, she has touched the lives of countless more students through detailed and engaged chamber music coaching. During the lockdowns of 2020, she ran 14 weekly Zoom concerts for students aged 9-22 that reached audiences from around the world.

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