Assistant Lecturer: Early Years Music, Musicianship, Aural Skills, Kodály Specialist

Email: helen.blackmore@tudublin.ie

BA (Hons), MLitt, DipABRSM 

Helen Blackmore is a native Dubliner. She read music at Trinity College Dublin and studied singing and piano at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She holds a research masters in music education in Ireland from Trinity College Dublin. Helen has completed Professional Certification in Musicianship and Pedagogy from the British Kodály Academy.

 Helen is passionate about teaching and sharing music in a musical way through singing, listening, movement and engaging with repertoire. She teaches Early Years Music and musicianship at TU Dublin Conservatoire. Online, she tutors in Early Years and Primary Music teaching methodology for the British Kodály Academy and the National Youth Choir of Scotland. Helen also provides in-person pedagogy training at the National Concert Hall and at the National Youth Choir of Scotland Summer School. She works with the North East Inner City Arts Committee in Dublin, running sessions in preschools and for children with autism. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Helen created a series of music videos and live-streams aimed at young children and their adults through the National Concert Hall, Dublin.