Helena Bugallo was born in 1971 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. She has performed in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, England, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Japan, appearing at international festivals such as Tanglewood, Warsaw Autumn, and Donaueschinger Musiktage. She has collaborated with numerous established groups, including the Meridian Arts Ensemble (New York), SWR Vokalensemble (Stuttgart), Thuermchen Ensemble (Cologne), Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), Birmingham Ensemble, and Ensemble Phoenix (Basel). She has received grants from the Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund, Fundación Antorchas, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, the Mark Diamond Research Fund, the Hinrichsen and Holst Foundations, and the British Arts Council. Ms. Bugallo’s teachers have included Lía Konias, Haydée Schvartz, Yvar Mikhashoff, Stephen Drury, and Alan Feinberg. She holds music degrees from the Conservatorio Provincial de La Plata (Argentina) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), where she obtained a Master's degree in piano performance and a Ph.D. in musicology. Her doctoral dissertation, completed in 2004, is on the music of Conlon Nancarrow. Between 2001 and 2003, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham (UK). She presently lives in Basel, Switzerland.

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