Born in December 1982, Hélène Tysman was awarded First Prize in the Darmstadt Chopin Piano Competition in 2006. She is also a prize-winner of other international piano competitions: 3rd Prize in England (Newport International Competition for Young Pianists), 1st Prize in Germany (Nauen International Piano Competition), 5th Prize in China (Hong Kong International Piano Competition), 3rd Prize in the United States (Minneapolis International Piano-e-Competition), and she is a laureate of the Georges Cziffra Foundation in Senlis (France) and the Chopin Foundation in Hanover (Germany).  More recently she received the prize of distinction awarded as a finalist of the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

Ms. Tysman is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) where she studied with Bruno Rigutto and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. After one year in the class of Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna, she continued her studies with Grigory Gruzman in Hamburg and Weimar.
She has been invited to perfom at festivals in her home country, France, such as the Nohant Festival, the Bagatelle Festival, the Chaise-Dieu Festival, the Whynote Festival (contemporary music), as well as abroad at the Brandenburg Musikfest, the Altensteig Konzertreihe, the Beethoven Teplice Festival, the Munich "Winners & Masters" Concerts Series, etc.
As a soloist she has played with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg, the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice Orchestra, the Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductors such as Christoph Warren-Green, Juri Gilbo, Mark Russell Smith, Antoni Wit and Tomasz Bugaj.
Her recital appearances have led her to London (the Royal Academy), Hamburg (Laeiszhalle), Saint-Petersburg (Mussorgsky Academy), as well as Paris (Cité de la Musique, Théâtre Mogador) and at a number of other cities in France, England, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, and Morocco.
Ms. Tysman has performed and been interviewed on French national radio several times,  notably in the program « En Blanc & Noir », in the Gershwin Marathon from the Cité de la Musique, and on the popular show « Les fous du roi ».
In addition to her solo career, Ms. Tysman is a keen chamber musician who has extended her repertoire to include lieder performances with the American soprano Aileen Bramhall-Itani. In 2002, they were chosen by the Meyer Foundation of the Paris Conservatory to record a CD of songs by Poulenc, Messiaen and Barber, and performed a recital broadcast on the television channel « Mezzo ».
Her first solo CD recording of works by Chopin released in 2010 for the label Oehms-Classics.