2025 will be our 25th Concert Season. Watch for details on how we will celebrate!
Wilmington Handbell Ensemble was founded by Michael Helman in 2000 and is the only community based handbell ensemble in Wilmington. Membership is by audition or invitation and the group draws from various church bell choirs in New Castle County. The purpose of the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble is to educate and introduce audiences to the beautiful and varied repertoire for handbells as well as promote excellence in musicianship among its members. In addition to their own concerts, the Ensemble has played at Longwood Gardens, First Night Wilmington, Christmas in Old New Castle, Christmas Open Houses in Salem and Woodstown, New Jersey, Brandywine River Museum, and Delaware Art Museum. They have also been featured with the Newark Symphony and the Rainbow Chorale of Delaware and the Wilmington Madrigal Singers in their holiday concerts.
Check out our 2023 Christmas concert! Click here.
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Private Performances
WHE also performs private concerts (not open to the general public) upon request and availability at retirement communities and nursing homes in the Delaware Valley area. Locations include: Country House Wilmington, DE December 16, 2024 |
Click here to listen to our spring 2024 concert!
Click here to listen to WHE in concert with the Newark Symphony Orchestra and friends!
In remembrance
Thank you to Sharon Neff for having memorial donations sent to Wilmington Handbell Ensemble in memory of her mother, Christine Neff, who was a ringer in our group before her untimely death.” February, 2018
“Thank you to Ann Stokes Neff for her generous donation in memory of Dotte Leach Chisholm, former music director of Grace Lutheran Church of Somers Point, NJ.” May, 2018