Helen Habershon (née Saunders) studied at the Royal College of Music with Sidney Fell and Gervase de Peyer and at the age of 22 was appointed Principle Clarinet of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. She has gone on to enjoy an international career giving recitals in leading concert venues at home and abroad and appearing on radio and TV.

More recently Helen, with her twin sister Catherine, has performed a double concerto with the New York Chamber Symphony Orchestra under Gerard Schwarz in the Lincoln Centre, receiving much acclaim in the New York Times.

Alongside her clarinet playing, Helen has always had a passion for composing music and her first two albums, Found in the Rain and Beyond the Clouds include works composed between 2004 and 2011. Helen's first CD, Found in the Rain contains 12 'Songs Without Words' performed by pianist and Helen on clarinet and has been broadcast around the world and on ClassicFM in the UK. Found in the Rain was first performed in Wells Cathedral in May 2010.

In Beyond the Clouds, her second CD, Helen is joined by John Lenehan (piano), Alexander Baillie ('cello) and Katalin Kertesz (violin) performing 21 'Songs Without Words'. (See 'Music' section on this website for more information).

Helen lives in Somerset with her family and has drawn inspiration from nature; the sea, the moors and the countryside of South West England.