Helen
Caddick
about
Helen Caddick is a south London born composer, songwriter and arranger whose passion and interest in all genres of music has inspired her work. This in turn has enabled her to collaborate with musicians, artists and directors in both theatre and film on a diverse range of projects. Helen’s unique compositional style has drawn many admirers and her style of writing has been described as 'powerful, evocative, modern and original’. Her arranging has also drawn attention and she has worked on critically acclaimed albums including The Magical World of the Strands & Here's Tom with the Weather with Michael and John Head. She believes everything around you can be used to inspire music, whether it’s things you see or hear, fragments of sound, dialogue, art, nature – all can be interpreted musically. Her work has featured on SkyArts, Channel 4, Resonance FM, BBC Radio Kent, BBC 3’s Late Junction, Channel Radio, performed in the UK and abroad.
News
The string scores I created for songs Miles Apart, Mean't to be, Carousel, Happy Ever After, Chinatown, Soldierman and The Girl with the Long Brown Hair have now been remastered as part of the long awaited reissue of the brilliant Shack's Here's Tom with the Weather . Available for pre-order from 11 October 2023 at https://www.shacksongs.co.uk
Delighted to announce that my works are now available through Composers Edition and can be found here: https://composersedition.com/helencaddick/
Thrilled to be commissioned as one of ten internationally selected composers to create a new work for the Lilith ensemble - a European ensemble 'committed to innovative, socially-conscious, genre-fluid performances'. Helen's work 'We are Here' will be released as part of a CD in 2023.
A culmination of extended research and development supported by Arts Council England, Helen presented semi-staged extracts from her new Opera Sophie at London's 2021 Tête à Tête Opera Festival. Inspired by the extraordinary artist/dancer Sophie Taeuber- Arp and her relationship with poet/dadaist Jean Arp, Sophie explores the challenges she faced as a female artist before her premature death in 1943. The sharing at TaT 2021 coincided with the first major UK retrospective of the artist's work at Tate Modern. Directed by Lucy Bradley (ROH, Glyndebourne), conducted by Chris Hopkins (ENO) with choreography by Kamala Devam, the role of Sophie was sung by Glyndebourne Artist Elizabeth Lynch alongside Neil Balfour as Jean with dance by Yanaëlle Thiran and Aaron Baksh. Plans are now in the pipeline to bring the full work to the stage. Watch this space!
Photo Credit Lee Carter