Helena Ricci

Grateful to have won an Immersive Arts Explore Award!

I will be working on my research project 'Human Harmonics', using immersive technology to co-create human-centred music experiences.

A glimpse into the recording session 🎧 First time ever on the harp!!
Listen to the result: https://helena-ricci.ffm.to/preludeinbminorbwv855aarrricciforharp

Executive Producer: Helena Ricci
Recording Producer: Maxim Gamble
Assistant: Brandon Nightingale
At The Stoller Hall

Out today - the first ever harp recording of Bach-Siloti Prelude in B minor🌹 So proud of this one!

https://helena-ricci.ffm.to/preludeinbminorbwv855aarrricciforharp

The music nearly repeats itself exactly. But the second time a melody emerge through. To me it shows that the only constant is change — and returning to something, a place, a book, a person, only ever shows our own personal change.

Presence through absence. ☁️ For this single cover, I chose a bare white palette, removing the rose that runs as a thread through the album visuals. Its absence is intentional. It represents loss — and the quiet truth that even when something is no longer visible, it still lives in us.

https://helena-ricci.ffm.to/consolationss172no3indflatmajorarrblasselforharp

Liszt Consolation No. 3 is out today. To me it feels like a gentle conversation with loss. Not dramatic or loud, but suspended, vulnerable, and deeply human, with rays of hope.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how strange it is to make classical music today.
An art form shaped by centuries, now moving through playlists, numbers, and quiet gatekeepers.

As an independent artist, I often feel in between — holding tradition with one hand, while searching for my own creative voice with the other. I’m learning to forge my own path, not by waiting to be chosen, but by trusting my intuition, understanding the industry, the creative process, and doing the invisible work that happens behind the scenes.

Classical music has given me so much.
But I’ve also felt how rigid structures can leave little room for curiosity, vulnerability, or risk.

These days, I’m choosing slowness over approval.
Intuition over certainty.
Making work that feels alive and honest.

Maybe the future of classical music lives in these quiet, in-between spaces. 🤍

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My release of Bach Adagio is featured on 🌌 sweet dreams!

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