Helen Gipps (pianoforte)
Bryan Gipps (violin)
Helen Gipps hails from Switzerland, and is a member of a very musical family. She has four brothers and two sisters, all of whom studied at the Frankfurt Conservatoire and subsequently took up musical careers. Both her sisters, like herself, are exPert pianists.
Helen Gipps , who owns and directs the Bexhill School of Music, has given a great many piano recitals in this country and in America, and has frequently broadcast.
She has handed the musical tradition down to her own family, all of her three children having taken up musical careers. Her son, Bryan, whom she will accompany this morning, won a violin scholarship at the Royal College of Music at the age. of seventeen. He has been in Julius Harrison 's Orchestra at Hastings, leader of the Oxford New Theatre Orchestra, Musical Director of the Theatre Royal, Brighton, and is now leader of the Folkestone Municipal Orchestra.
When he married the brilliant violinist, Molly Harms , a short time ago, his mother said to him: You ought to have married a pianist
' I've got my pianist', he replied proudly, patting her on the shoulder.