As a soloist, Helen mainly performs in concerts. Her focus is on Baroque music, supplemented by a repertoire of songs from the Romantic period to the 20th century and occasionally contemporary music, world music (e.g. Armenian and Jewish) and chanson/jazz. Helen is also an experienced ensemble singer and performs in the Trio OrgaVoce, which she co-founded, as well as in various solo quartets. As a choir soloist, she has sung with the Bamberg Symphony Choir, the Max Reger Choir Berlin, the Saxon Chamber Choir Leipzig, the Ernst Senff Choir, and the German Symphony Orchestra at the Konzerthaus Berlin under Roland Boer, among others. With the vocal ensemble LauschWerk, she made a guest appearance at the Munich State Opera in 2025 at the Opera Festival in the opera Pénélope by G. Fauré - musical direction: Susanna Mälkki, director: Andrea Breth. Helen has sung major choral symphonic works under the baton of renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Justin Doyle, Florian Helgath, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Oscar Jockel, Kirill Karabitz, Marcus Merkel, Michael Sanderling, Natalie Stutzmann, Juraj Valčuha, and Jörg-Peter Weigle. Helen has performed at the Thuringian Bach Weeks and the Jewish-Israeli Culture Days in Thuringia, at Villa Seligmann in Hanover, and at festivals in Caputh, Lithuania, and Armenia. She has also been a guest performer in opera choirs at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Gerhard-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz, Landestheater Coburg, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, and other theaters. Her artistic career is complemented by work as an actress in spoken theater and on the chanson stage, as well as forays into film.

Education:

Helen Ispirian studied classical singing with Prof. Ks. Ute Florey at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Prior to that, she took lessons with Peter Svensson (Vienna) and Reiner Goldberg (Staatsoper Unter den Linden). As a minor subject in her school music studies, she completed the profile module in choral conducting with Prof. Maike Bühle, Tobias Walenciak, and Vinzenz Weissenberger. She also studied Russian at Humboldt University in Berlin and French for two semesters. At the Institute for Early Music (UdK), Helen completed an advanced course in Baroque singing with Doerthe Maria Sandmann until June 2025. She also received important musical inspiration from Elena Komarova (Moscow), Prof. Linde Großmann, Prof. Michail Lanskoi, Waltraud Heinrich, Regina Jakobi, and Sami Kustaloglou. At the beginning of her artistic career, Helen was also influenced by personalities such as Ida Kelarova (Czech Roma singer) and Jocelyn B. Smith (jazz singer), as well as personalities from the fields of dance and acting (Carlos Jaramillo, Thomas Marek, Kurt Sobotka).
After graduating from high school, Helen first completed a degree in singing, dance, and acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Until 2015, Helen was primarily active in acting and chanson. Solo performances with accordion accompaniment and as the front woman of the Moscow band “Gastarbaiterka - Helenochka & Rebyata” took her through the Moscow club scene, to the Goethe Institute in Moscow, and on a tour to Ufa in the Urals and Siberia on behalf of the German Embassy. Other highlights included performances at the Moscow International Film Festival, on Red Square on “Europe Day,” and at the German Ambassador's residence in Moscow during the Year of German Literature in 2015. Helen toured Russia with an international ensemble and the dance theater piece “Memory Letters” by Ukrainian choreographer Oleg Nikolaev. At the Meyerhold Theater in Moscow, she also played the title role in the Russian premiere of “Tonight: Lola Blau!” by Georg Kreisler.

Helen comes from a working-class family. At the age of 5, she had her first solo performance as an angel in a nativity play in a cowshed. This was followed by flute, violin, and piano lessons. At the age of 14, she financed ballet lessons by babysitting. Piano lessons eventually gave way to singing lessons. Modern dance, rock ‘n’ roll, and tap dancing were added to the mix. After graduating from high school and working as a waitress for a few months, Helen completed a preparatory course at the Stage School in Hamburg before being accepted at a state university.
Due to her Armenian roots and her travels and artistic experiences in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Czechia, Helen sees herself as a cultural bridge builder between East and West. She also crosses boundaries between different genres and social classes.

In addition, Helen is the director of two internationally award-winning short films.