Musicians > Helen-Jean Arthur Helen-Jean Arthur, first violin, catapulted to New York from Chicago to be an actor. After studying with Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg she married Michael Dunn, a cellist , and as the young mother of four, needing some outlet of her own, began violin lessons. Eventually she was accepted as an adult student by William Lincer, who was then Leonard Bernstein’s first violist in the N.Y. Philharmonic and on the Juilliard faculty. She and Michael helped to found GVO and then she returned to her career. She was in the original productions of "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All To You" and "A Lie of the Mind" among some 30 Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. Regional credits include Arena Stage in D.C., the Guthrie Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and so on. She also did what felt like a prison stint on a soap, "Loving," for four years. An interesting sidelight is touring and concertizing world-wide in the repertoire for actress with symphony orchestra. National Public Radio fans may have heard her broadcast from Symphony Space in Selected Shorts and the annual "Bloomsday.” Between shows she returns to GVO and feels privileged to play the big orchestral repertoire under Barbara Yahr’s direction. Sometimes she is a soloist, as in the Shakespeare program last year, and as the story-teller of “Peter and the Wolf.” She serves on the board and she and Michael are the chief librarians. They also do lots of traveling, own an 1840 house in the city and part of an old farm in the Catskills, where they work in the woods and garden like maniacs.