Meet our Harp Column Academy teachers! Watch a few short videos to get to know them and learn more about their approaches to helping you achieve your goals.
“My hope is that you get inspired by Harp Column Academy to find your own voice. … The more you hear other people discuss music, ideas, approaches, the more the harp world gains.”
“As harpists we so often deal with similar issues. At the end of the day we’re all individuals, yet we’re still bound by some of the same common issues.”
“I would like students to learn from me that work ethic is the most important [thing] … hand position and technique are only tools [for] becoming the best musician possible.”
“Music is a way to express things that cannot be expressed in words. It’s a way of communicating spiritual truths, and it’s a way to give something to people who are in need.”
“Music learning is so much more than reproducing what’s on the page. If you have an opportunity to develop technically and musically in an orderly way, right from the start, you’ll just fly.”
“I would love for you to explore J.S. Bach as a vehicle for you to play with phrasing…there’s so much that he’s written that translates beautifully onto the harp.”
“To me, the main aim [of my HCA lesson] is to inspire. And to remind you of perhaps a lot of things you already know or your teacher already knows and has instructed you…to inspire you to do the best you can do.”
“If I have the opportunity as a teacher to put something beautiful into my students’ lives, then they can share it with other people, and that puts beauty into this world. It’s a way of combatting all of the hardship [that people face in the world].”
“If you think about it, practicing is really an art in itself. No one sits down to their instrument for the first time and suddenly knows exactly how to practice.”
“I talk about all the things that really interest me, the things I learned along the way…the core of what I play…finally I found a way that really makes sense to me. I found a way that really fascinates me and helps me play.”
