Helen R. Weems is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music offering private piano lessons. She established her current independent piano studio in Columbia, Maryland in 1996, having taught previously in Massachusetts and Missouri. She holds several music degrees, including a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Weems has been an on-air classical music host for public radio stations KSOZ-FM (Missouri) and WJHU-FM (Maryland). She has also worked in ethnomusicology and law.
Ms. Weems serves her community, as a musician, in a number of roles: Vice President for Membership with the Maryland State Music Teachers Association, past Vice President of the Candlelight Concert Society, past President of the Greater Columbia Music Teachers Association and the Howard County Music Teachers Association, pianist for the Burleigh Manor Middle School Choir, alto for Eric Whitacre’s inspirational VC6, and Music Director of the charming St. Luke’s Brighton Episcopal Church. She organizes holiday caroling for the Harper’s Glen Townhouse Association, and is a member of People for Bikes and Club de Français de Columbia. She was married to the late neuroscientist Robert Provine.
Ms. Weems’ goals are to encourage her students to enjoy playing piano for themselves and others, to nurture student discipline, to teach musical literacy, and to graduate students who can play and learn music that pleases and delights them.
