Biography

Helen Nebeker is a classically trained pianist with over twenty years of experience. A born and raised Texan, Helen’s musical journey spans a wide range of musical accomplishments, including over fifty national and international competition awards, a private studio co-owned with her mother Hsin-Yi Nebeker, and an impressive concert career as a soloist, collaborative musician, and orchestral keyboardist. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA) at the University of Oregon, with previous degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (MM), and the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM). Helen’s teachers include - Julia Amada Kruger, Dr. Timothy Woolsey, Kenneth Thompson, Dr. Daniel Shapiro, Alexandre Moutouzkine, and Dr. Brian Hsu.

Some of Helen’s career highlights are: being awarded alternate at the 2022 Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition in MSM, receiving the 2019 Young Artist Piano Trio Fellowship at the Rocky Ridge Music Center (Young Artist Seminar), concerto performances with the University of the Incarnate Word Orchestra and San Antonio Philharmonic (formerly SA Symphony), and a successful 2023 summer season with Emerald Coast Chamber Music Festival (FL), AlpenKammerMusik (Austria), and MusicAlps (France).

Outside of music, Helen’s hobbies include writing, playing video games, cosplaying, and reading science fiction. She also enjoys scouring the Internet for obscure piano scores, and studying American and Asian pop culture as it relates to her Taiwanese-American heritage. Helen’s main artistic goal is to curate non-conventional recital programs with underrepresented Romantic and modern composers, alongside composers of marginalized groups (such as female, LGBT+ and BIPOC artists). Other goals include furthering the academic research of Armenian composer Arno Babajanian and Japanese jazz composer-pianist Hiromi, and to perform and record their complete works for solo piano.