Helena Singleton is a violinist and first-year middle

school orchestra director in Broken Arrow Public

Schools. She studied Music Education at the

University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma, graduating

Summa Cum Laude. Throughout her career thus

far she has been heavily involved with music and

music education programs. She has participated in

her city’s El Sistema program, Sistema Tulsa, since its

inception, transitioning from a student to a teacher in 2019, as well as teaching at another El Sistema program, Harmony Project Tulsa since 2019. Since beginning private lessons in 2016, Helena has participated in Oklahoma’s All-State orchestra, Oklahoma Summer Art Institute at Quartz Mountain, YOLA National Festival, and was a member of the YOLA National Institute, where she traveled to Scotland and London, playing alongside the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Maestro Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl and the Edinburgh International Festival, playing alongside the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and working with other passionate young musicians.