M.Mus., B.Mus.

Helga Morrison is an active piano adjudicator, RCM examiner and composer.  She is currently taking a leave of absence from teaching.

Helga is a Member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association (ORMTA), the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP), and the Royal Conservatory of Music College of Examiners.

She received her formal musical training from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto where she studied piano and piano pedagogy with Earl Moss, voice with Glen Gardiner, theory with Molly Sclater, and history with William Andrews; and received her Kodaly Level I and Level II certificates from the University of Calgary.

She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music in Theory from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo were she studied theory with Dr. Charles Morrison, piano with Garth Beckett, voice with Pat Pascoe, composition with Glen Buhr and Rodney Sharman, and electro-acoustic music with Gary Kulesha.  Helga received her Masters of Music in Composition from The University of Western Ontario, London were she studied with Peter-Paul Koprowski.  

Helga was a selected participant at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany (1992) and at the Arraymusic Young Composers Workshop, Toronto (1993). Compositions include Changing Gardens, an electronic work commissioned by sculpturist Cindy McMenemy with the support of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery for the installation "There's Something I've been Meaning to Tell You"; Portraits: the seasons commissioned by Maria Knapik-Sztramko for the Guelph Spring Festival; and South Seas for soprano, cello and piano, commissioned by Marjorie & Garth Beckett in honour of the Beckett School’s 20th Anniversary Concert and funded by the Canadian Music Centre's New Music for Young Musicians Millennium Project. In Sleep of Death, Turn and Walk Away, and Summers sea son were personal commissions from vocalists. 

Helga is the centre coordinator of the Grand River Region Contemporary Showcase Festival and has served on the Board of Directors for ACNMP. She has served on the ORMTA Council as Western Zone Representative, Provincial Workshop, Competitions and Young Artist Tour Convener and continues to serve ORMTA and various branches as webmaster.  She was the ORMTA Convention Chairperson for the 2004 convention held in Waterloo and serves on various positions for the Kitchener-Waterloo Branch. She has also served on the Board of Directors for Numus Inc. as president.

Helga has taught private music lessons since 1980 and joined The Beckett School in 1990 teaching piano, rudiments, theory, history and ear training. She has also taught keyboard harmony at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

Currently Helga has run a successful piano studio ranging from beginner to advanced at the Beckett School producing many fine musicians and scholarship winners.