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Virginia Harp Center Festival announces 2025 event lineup

2025 Virginia Harp Festival presenters
(Clockwise from top left) Featured artists at the 2025 Virginia Harp Center Festival include Emmanuel Padilla Holguín, Emily Levin, Robbin Gordon-Cartier, Maryanne Meyer, Charles Overton, and Dré (Adrienne Knaurer).
September 25, 2024

The Virginia Harp Center Festival will take place March 14–16, 2025, in Arlington, Va. The two-day event includes performances, workshops, lectures on harp-related topics, masterclasses, and an exhibit hall. Early bird registration ends Feb. 1, 2025.

Workshop and lecture topics include advice for freelancing, orchestral audition preparation, arranging and transcribing, handling performance anxiety, and basic harp maintenance; presentations on Mexican harp music and electric harp music; and hands-on practice of lever changes, pedaling, and improvisation. The festival’s opening concert features Emily Levin’s interactive program “Experiments in Play” at 8:00 p.m. on March 14.

For more information or to register, visit the event website.

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