Mickey Helms

Alumni
BM, San Jose State University, 1997
(Music Composition)
MA, San Jose State University, 2002
(Music)

Email: mhelms2@aol.com

Mickey Helms was born September 4, 1972 in Redwood City, California, and resides in San Jose, California. He recieved an AA degree in Music from De Anza College in 1992, a BM degree in Music Composition from San Jose State University in 1997, and a MA degree in Music from San Jose State University in 2002. His composition teachers have included Pablo Furman, Brian Belet, Allen Strange, Dan Wyman, and Richard Aldag.

Mickey's compositions have been performed at the 1997 International Computer Music Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, the 1997 Seoul Computer Music Festival, the Seventh Annual Florida Electroacoustic Festival, the 1997 SEAMUS ElectroacousticMusic Week, the 1997 and 1998 SEAMUS Audioclip Web Concerts, the 2001 Bay Area Exhange concerts, and on various radio stations around the world. His works are featured on the following recordings:Music From Cream - CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 26 (1998), and The Frog Peak Colaborations Project (1998). Mickey was also the recipient of the 1999 Eva Thompson Award in Music Composition.


Performances

Whispering Modulations - 1996
• 1997 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) - Thessaloniki, Greece
  September 30, 1997
  
• 1997 Seoul Computer Music Festival - Seoul, South Korea
  November 26, 1997
  
• Seventh Annual Florida Electroacoustic Festival - Gainesville, Florida
  April 10, 1998
  
• 2001 Bay Area Exchange Concerts - CCRMA, CCM, CNMAT, CREAM
  February - May 2001

  Variations On A Theme By Chris Mann - 1996
  

• 1997 SEAMUS Audioclip Web Concert - World Wide Web
  November 3-17, 1997
  
• 2002 SEAMUS Electroacoustic Music Month - SJSU, San Jose, CA
  November 22, 2002

  The Rules No. 2: Female Problems - 1997
  

• 1997 SEAMUS Electroacoustic Music Week - SJSU, San Jose, CA
  November 12 and 13, 1997

  Five Scenes From An Alien Civilization - 1997
  

• 1998 SEAMUS Audioclip Web Concert - World Wide Web
  November 1-31, 1998

• 1999 Eva Thompson Award in Music Composition
  
• Biography listed in the International Who's Who of Music vol. 2: Popular Music

Recordings

Whispering Modulations - 1996

• Music From Cream - CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 26 (1998)

  Variations On A Theme By Chris Mann - 1996

• The Frog Peak Colaborations Project (1998)