Howard Helvey (b. 1968) resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is active as a composer, arranger and pianist, and serves as organist and choirmaster of historic Calvary Episcopal Church. He is also co-founder (2013) and conductor of the Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble, a professional chamber choir. Nationally and internationally Mr. Helvey is in frequent demand as a composer, conductor, and speaker. Known particularly for his choral music, Mr. Helvey maintains an extremely active writing schedule, and his hundreds of compositions and arrangements are published by Beckenhorst Press, Hinshaw Music, Oxford University Press, Boosey & Hawkes, H.W. Gray, Alliance Music, Lawson-Gould, E.C. Schirmer, MorningStar Music, Paraclete Press, and Roger Dean, among other companies. His compositions have been featured on numerous recordings, national television and radio broadcasts, in such eminent venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA), Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, the Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas), St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City, Rome, Italy), St. Patrick’s Cathedral (NYC), St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Dublin, Ireland), the American Cathedral (Paris, France), Roy Thompson Hall (Toronto), the White House, the National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.), Westminster Abbey (London, England), Bath Abbey (England), the former Crystal Cathedral (Garden Grove, California), and many locations throughout Europe and Asia. In addition, his music is regularly performed at regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and other professional music organizations, and has been acclaimed as “engaging” (Choral Journal), “definitive” (Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians), “magical” (The Hymn) and — in response to his occasional inclusion of jazz elements — “fun and certain to be of interest” (The Diapason). Recordings of his music appear on the Gothic, Innova, Pro Organo, Cedille, Reference, Regent (UK), Spektral (Germany), and Suisa (Switzerland) record labels. In 2021, Beckenhorst Press released the album In That Bright Land: Choral Music of Howard Helvey (available on all major digital audio platforms) featuring studio recordings of twenty-six selected works. And in 2020, Beckenhorst Press released Transformations: Ten Piano Solos Based on Timeless Hymn Tunes (available as a CD and on all major digital audio platforms) featuring Mr. Helvey performing the contents of his piano book by the same title.