The America's Got Talent quartet Sons of Serendip, featuring harpist Mason Morton, has released their debut studio recording. The new release is a self-titled compilation of the group’s most memorable performances on the show. In its first week out the album is...
The New Orleans Jazz and Pop Harp Weekend has announced their lineup, which will include harpists Louise Trotter and Lori Andrews, and Bart Samolis on bass. The event will take place June 11–14, 2015, at the Crowne Plaza New Orleans Airport Hotel. "We want to...
We are sorry to report the sad news that harpist Cameron Huster Beck died February 2 following a struggle with Leukemia; she was 28. Cameron was pursuing a graduate degree at Peabody, where she studied with Ruth Inglefield. Cameron was from DeLand, Fla., and served as...
Elias Parish Alvars' "Grande Fantasie" on Donezetti's Lucia de Lammermoor lives up to its name in the hands of French harpist Valérie Milot, who released this video rendition in Oct. 2014. Read more about Milot at www.valeriemilot.com and more about Parish Alvars on...
The Archaea Tree Ensemble (harp, flute, and percussion) is launching Troublesome Gap, a collaborative music festival for composers that will take place in the mountains of North Carolina May 17-24, 2015. The festival will be hosted at the Azule retreat center, in Hot...
The Mabel Fulton Weiger Harp Composition Competition for Sacred Music will award $500 to the winning composition of a new work for harp. The award is sponsored by harpist Barbara Weiger Lepke Sims, the Colorado Music Society, and Abundant Silence Publishing. The...
Yolanda Kondonassis has released the CD Together with guitarist Jason Vieaux on the Azica label. The recording features original works for harp and guitar including Alan Hovhaness' Spirit of Trees, Xavier Montsalvatge's Fantasia, Máximo Diego Pujol's Suite Magica,...
Harpist Katryna Tan has opened the Rave Harps Center, in Singapore, as a home base for the Rave Harps Academy that she founded over 10 years ago. Rave Harps is the representative of Camac Harps in Singapore and Malaysia and the new center will also serve as a harp...
The jazz duo 2Tone—with harpist Cindy Horstman and bassist Michael Medina—is featured in the January 2015 issue of International Music. The publication is the journal of the American Federation of Musicians; Horstman and Medina are members of Dallas local 72-147. The...
The Académie de musique française in Kyoto is now accepting applications for its 2015 Academie to take place March 20–April 1 at the Insitut Français in Kyoto. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2015.  Now in its 25th year, the Academie began including harp in its...
Looking for some harp inspiration this year? Lucky for you, harp mini festivals are all the rage. (We've defined a mini festival as 4 days or less.) Here are a few of our favorites coming up in the earlier part of 2015: Camac Harp Weekend in Cardiff, Wales Camac Harps...
Cynthia Price-Glynn retired in December as Chair of the Harp Department at Boston Conservatory. Price-Glynn developed the school’s unique collaborative harp department, "which offers teachers, training, and experiences in a wide range of career possibilities for...
We've just wrapped up the January-February 2015 issue of Harp Column, featuring our interview with Ray and Sue Mooers, the entrepreneurial duo behind Dusty Strings. The couple reflects on 35 years of building instruments and reveal the secret to their success. (Hint:...
Feeling stressed this holiday season? Running around got you crazy? Sit back and listen to Sylvain Blassel's gorgeous interpretation of Franz Liszt's "Consolation" and your cares will melt away. Blassel plays on a 1907 Erard harp in this video uploaded to YouTube by...
U.K.-based harp quartet 4 Girls 4 Harps has announced plans for the British Harp Chamber Music Competition 2015 for U.K. residents with a goal "to inspire future generations of harpists and as a platform to showcase the harp within diverse ensembles," according to...
Naoko Yoshino plays Gabriel Fauré's captivating "Une châtelaine en sa tour" in this live concert recording from March 2011 at Tokyo's Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall. The piece was written for harpist Micheline Kahn, a student of Hasselmans at the Paris Conservatory, who...
Isabelle Moretti, harp instructor at the Paris Conservatory, will teach at the Académie musicale de Villecroze, in the South of France, from March 31–April 11, 2015. The Académie sponsors master classes for various instruments from April through October. "Candidates...
French harpist Ghislaine Petit-Volta has released Hommage à Rameau, a collection of "varied viewpoints on Jean Philippe Rameau" according to the disc's liner notes. In addition to Petit-Volta's transcriptions of the nine movements by Rameau in his first book of Pieces...
First-time sponsor Atlanta Harp Center has announced the lineup for the next Atlanta Harp Festival, set to take place Feb. 27–March 1, 2015, in Roswell, Ga. Bridget Kibbey and Kim Robertson will be the featured artists, along with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra principal...
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