Helen Nebeker

Professional – Pianist, Piano Teacher

Helen Nebeker is a born and raised Texan pianist and has studied music for over twenty years. Helen’s career spans a wide range of musical accomplishments, including over fifty national and international competition awards, multiple solo concerts, and extensive work as a collaborative musician and orchestral keyboardist. She is currently pursuing a DMA at the University of Oregon, and earned a Master of Music in Classical Piano at the Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Helen’s teachers include: Julia Amada Kruger, Dr. Timothy Woolsey, Kenneth Thompson, Dr. Daniel Shapiro, and Alexandre Moutouzkine.

Some of Helen’s career highlights are: concerto performances with the University of the Incarnate Word Orchestra and San Antonio Philharmonic (formerly the SA Symphony), placing alternate at the 2022 Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition at MSM, receiving the 2019 Young Artist Piano Trio Fellowship at the Rocky Ridge Music Center (Young Artist Seminar), and many outreach concerts in the Austin, Cleveland, and NYC area. Her most recent performances were solo and chamber recitals presented as part of the 2023 Emerald Coast Chamber Music Festival (FL), AlpenKammerMusik (Austria), and MusicAlps (France).

Outside of music, Helen’s hobbies include cosplaying, playing/streaming video games, 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 multicultural heritage. Helen’s artistic goals include promoting the rediscovery of underappreciated classical composers, performing works by marginalized composers of today (such as female, LGBT+ and BIPOC artists) and to work alongside people from various creative mediums to create genre-bending mixes of music and art.