Gossamer Noons for voice and
orchestra, are recorded. He was very active as a solo and
chamber music pianist throughout the United States. His
major teachers were Abby Whiteside for piano, and
Roger Sessions for composition, and he toured
extensively with such internationally famous performers
as Bethany Beardslee, Isidore Cohen, Rudolf Kolisch,
Phyllis Curtin, soprano, and Aaron Copland, and for
many years performed solo and chamber works, many of
them world premires, for internationally known chamber
music and contemporary music organizations in New
York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston,
Minneapolis, and elsewhere. His later concerts included
memorial solo recitals of the music of renowned
American composer Roger Sessions at both Harvard and
Princeton Universities, an all-Ravel recital at Harvard,
and a solo recital in Town Hall, NY.
His final
compositions include Eventually the Carousel Begins, for
two pianos, A Mixture of Time for guitar and piano, which
had its premire in San Francisco in June 1990 by Adam
Holzman and the composer, The Altered Landscape
(1992) for organ solo and Shall We Dance (1994) for
piano solo, Piano Trio No. 2, and a piano quartet
commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation.
He died in 2001
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 ADAMS, J.: Phrygian Gates / China Gates / SESSIONS: Piano Sonata No. 1 / BRIEF: Nightsong (O'Riley) |  CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PIANO TRIOS, Vol. 2 |  HELPS: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 1 - In Retrospect / Music for Left Hand / 3 Hommages / Postcards / Shall We Dance / Valse mirage |
 HELPS: Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 1 - In Retrospect / Music for Left Hand / 3 Hommages / Postcards / Shall We Dance / Valse mirage |  HELPS: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 2 |  HELPS: Shall We Dance / Piano Quartet / Postlude / Nocturne |
 IMBRIE: Spring Fever / Reminiscence / DAVIDOVSKY, M.: RecitAndy / HELPS, R.: Postcards / HARBISON: Chaconne / LEE, S.: Dalha Dalha |  Piano Music - COPLAND, A. / ZAHAB, R. / BERG, C. / HELPS, R. / STREET, T. / BISCARDI, C. / RICHIE, D. (Music By My Friends) (Lerner) |  Piano Recital: Moe, Eric - BIGGS, H. / PETERSON, W. / HELPS, R. / IMBRIE, A. / MOE, E. / KARCHIN, L. / WUORINEN, C. (The Waltz Project Revisited) |
 THOMSON: Filling Station / KURKA: Symphony No. 2 / HELPS, R.: Piano Concerto No. 2 / LOPATNIKOFF: Festival Overture |