Helen
Wargelin
MM 2022 New England Conservatory of Music with Gus Sebring
BM 2020 Northwestern University with Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen
Biography
Helen Wargelin is the newly appointed Second Horn of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in Norfolk, VA. She has appeared with groups including the Seattle Symphony, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the New World Symphony, and spent a year as an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. She was a Horn Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 2022 and, over previous summers, attended the Aspen and Brevard Music Festivals. In 2021, she won the Aspen Horn Concerto Competition.
A Concord, MA native, she holds a Master of Music from New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude, in Horn Performance from Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, along with a minor in Musicology. While at NEC, she was an Edward Hyde Cox Presidential Scholar. Her principal teachers include Gus Sebring, Gail Williams, and Jonathan Boen.
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