Helen is a professional cornettist, researcher and teacher whose research encompasses aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century performance practice, improvised and unwritten repertoires, music in worship, social and political influences on musical traditions, and transmission and reception of continental thought and theory in seventeenth-century England. Helen is a postdoctoral research fellow at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Managing Editor of Septenary Editions, and a member of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.