Bio
Helen Hou (also Hou-Sandi) is a collaborative pianist and web developer currently located in Wichita, KS. She has the great fortune of being able to pursue her passion for the web in her position as Web Design Engineer with 10up and contributes to the WordPress software and community. She also performs with others on a freelance basis and as a duo with her husband, clarinetist Adrián Sandí.
Helen is a graduate of the Master of Music program in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music under Dr. Jean Barr at the Eastman School of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied with Dr. Dmitri Shteinberg and the late Landon Bilyeu. She previously studied with Suzanne Guy of Norfolk, Virginia.
An active collaborator, Helen has performed in recitals in Norfolk, Richmond, Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago, and San Jose, Costa Rica. In addition to her own studies on the piano, she has had the opportunity to perform for and be coached by such artists as Larry Combs, Richard Stoltzman, Orli Shaham, Jon Nakamatsu, the Miami String Quartet, Gary Hoffman, Zvi Zeitlin, and André-Michel Schub.
Helen is also passionate about large ensemble piano and has performed with the Oistrach Symphony Orchestra, the Hampton Roads Chamber Players, the Governor’s School for the Arts Opera Orchestra, the VCU Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and all of the Eastman large ensembles, including the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Musica Nova.
