Born in 1981, Helen Grime is one of the most distinguished compositional voices of her generation and Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her accolades include a British Composer Award, a Bernstein Fellowship and residencies with Wigmore Hall and the Hallé. 
 Grime has had works commissioned by ensembles and institutions including the London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Tanglewood Music Center. Her music has been championed by world-leading conductors and soloists including Sir Simon Rattle, Marin Alsop, Pierre Boulez, Sir Mark Elder, Daniel Harding, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Malin Broman, Colin Currie and Huw Watkins. 
 Between 2011 and 2015 Grime was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra. This fruitful period resulted in a series of new works and a recording of her orchestral works released by NMC Recordings, which was awarded ‘Editors Choice’ by Gramophone and nominated in the Contemporary category of the 2015 Gramophone Awards. In 2016 her Two Eardley Pictures were premiered at the BBC Proms and in Glasgow, winning the prize for large-scale composition in the Scottish Awards for New Music.