Favorite Links

Links to some sites I appreciate. Check back often.

• Helen on Gigmasters
  Online booking site with performance reviews of me for various events

• Terry Champlin
  Terry Champlin is a classical guitarist and composer of international repute. He and I have been very long time collaborators. He has influenced both my music and my life in a major way, We frequently perform together and appear on one another's recordings. Terry had a number of CDs under his own name and he has been featured on many others. His music has been performed by artists around the world.

• Boy Blue Productions
  Home of Kenan Rubenstein, extremely talented young artist, film maker and composer. He did all the design work for the I Love the Moon CD. I am a huge fan of his work.

• Rick Udler
  Rick is an awesome Brazilian meets the blues style guitarist and composer from Sao Poalo and a great performer too! His cd Papaya is a joy!

• Bud Buckley
  Bud Buckley is a former guitar and songwriting student of mine. He retired from public school teaching a few years ago, and has gone on to build an impressive singer/songwriter/performer career on his own and with the duo BudaRest, I have had the honor of producing three of Bud's recordings as well as appearing on them as an acoutic guitarist and background vocalist.

• Gore Music
  Excellent Elixir guitar strings

• Scott Petito Productions - NRS Recording Studio
  Scott produced "Vanishing Point" and played many instruments on it. He and Leslie are fabulous!

• Hudson Valley Music
  HVmusic.com -- Showcasing Hudson Valley music, designers of HelenAvakian.com

• Judith Kay
  Beautiful bossa nova/Brazilian style singer/classical guitarist/composer. Fabulous musician, my beloved first guitar teacher and a major influence!