Helen Searles Westbrook (October 15, 1889 – 1967) was an American composer[1] and organist who appeared with Chicago Symphony.
[3] She began organ lessons at age eleven with her mother, who was also an organist.
[4] Westbrook then studied with Arthur Dunham, Frank van Dusen, Wilhelm Middleschutte and Adolf Weidig at the American Conservatory, where she received a gold medal,[5] as well as a young American Artists award.
[7] She played with the Chicago Opera Company under Bruno Walter,[8] as an organ soloist with Chicago Symphony, and on a WGN radio program for CBS which used her compositions "Dusk at Friendship Lake" and "Retrospection" as the program's theme songs.
[9] Westbrook was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)[10] and the Chicago Club of Women Organists.