Helga Arias Parra was born in Bilbao, Spain. She obtained her piano diploma in the city of Granada. After that she began her composition studies in the same city and later in the conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Milan and the conservatory of Parma, where she studied compositiona and computer music with Mario Garuti and Javier Torres Maldonado. Besides, she has received lessons from other composers such as Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Mark André, Toshio Hosokawa, Alberto Posadas, Gabriel Erkoreka, Dániel Péter Biró, Ken Ueno, Cristóbal Halffter, Dominique Schafer and Javier Álvarez among others and participated in masterclasses with Helmuth Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Philippe Manoury, José María Sánchez Verdú or Daniel Teruggi. She has been awarded in the international contest “Città di Udine”, the RCSM Victoria Eugenia de Granada contest for Symphonic Orchestra, the shut up and listen! Electroacustic festival in Vienna or the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Competition 2014. Her music has been performed in several festivals such as EMUFEST of Rome, the Klangwerkstatt in the Konzerthaus Berlin, Festival Mixtur in Barcelona, Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, USA, Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva (Mexico), Domaine Forget (Canada), Casa del Suono in Parma (Italy), Etchings Festival (France), Echoraum Vienna, Experimentalstudio Academy of the SWR Freiburg, 3rd Forum for Young Composers in Cascais (Portugal), Sonutopias 2014 (Santiago de compostela, Spain) by ensembles such as International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA), Vertixe Sonora, Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, ECCE ensemble, Taller Sonoro, Sond'arte electric ensemble, Ensemble Cepromusic, Ensemble Progress Berlin and others. Currently she is a Computer Music Master's student at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien in Karlheinz Essl's class and a postgraduate Composition student at the Kunstuniversität Graz with Beat Furrer.