Helen Pyke

Helen Lucas Pyke (June, 1905 – 13 July 1954) was an English pianist, teacher and composer, born in Paddington, London. She was educated at the London Academy of Music under Henry Yorke Trotter and Horace Kesteven. She composed songs, including A Requiem - When I am dead my dearest (setting Christina Rossetti), and April (text William Watson), both published in 1948, and educational piano pieces such as 'Song of the Kinkajou' (originally from the piano suite for children Five Zoo Pictures, 1929). In the mid-1930s, she was living at Studio 4, 59 Edwardes Square, London W.8.