Camac Harps has announced the location of their annual festival, to be held this year in Perpignan on the Southeast coast of France. The festival runs October 17–19, 2014, and includes a lineup of classical, jazz, and Celtic harp performances. Featured performers...
Scottish harp and fiddle duo Catriona McKay and Chris Stout have won a Herald Angel award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. McKay and Stout, who have worked together as a duo for almost 20 years and also appear together in the Shetland band Fiddlers’ Bid, won...
Harp Duo Lilac 94, comprised of Christina Brier and Kathryn Sloat, have teamed up with a trio of composers—Daniel Morel, Alex Cooke, and Bret Bohman—to create three new pieces for harp duo as part of a consortium project to include 21 harp duos. The collection will be...
If you missed the Chicago Harp Quartet at any of the recent summer events, you'll be pleased to know they've just put up several live performance videos, including this one from the Lyon & Healy Festival on July 6. Their performance of "Rubric" from Glass Works,...
Sivan Magen has been featured in a video produced by Borletti-Buitoni Trust. Magen was a BBT Trust winner in 2012, and was also first prize winner in the 16th International Harp Contest in Israel in 2006. Read more about him on his website www.sivanmagen.com.
Jazz harpist Lori Andrews performed with her JazHarp Trio at the recent Festival of Arts/Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, Calif. Here's her take on jazz classic "Take Five".
Atlanta harpist Mason Morton is featured on America's Got Talent with his group Sons of Serendip, who performed for the show's Quarter Finals on Tuesday, August 12. The bandmates met while attending graduate school at Boston University, where Morton studied with Ann...
The Somerset Folk Harp Festival awarded Sam Milligan their third Lifetime Achievement Award on July 31. The honor was bestowed in recognition of "his efforts to expand the harp world with his pioneering harp books, his role as the first editor of the American Harp...
Throughout the summer, we're uploading back issues of Harp Column, going all the way back to our first issue published in July-August 1993. Check out our back issue page for new issues, which we're adding daily. Harp Column subscribers receive full access to our...
Stella Castellucci tells the story of her life in Diving Deep for Sea Shells, her new memoir co-authored by Edgar Amaya. Born in Los Angeles in 1930 to musician father Louis Castellucci, Stella went on to continue and further his legacy. She joined Peggy Lee’s touring...
Lyon & Healy Harps has announced winners for their 2014 Lyon & Healy Awards Shanghai. The award competition took place at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music May 8–9, 2014, in conjunction with the Shanghai International Harp Festival. Jia Peng (China), Qi Hang...
Winners were announced for the fourth Young Artist's Harp Competition, which took place July 3 and 4 in Rabun Gap, Ga. The competition is sponsored by the Young Artist's Harp Seminar, which follows the event. Twenty-five competitors took part in the live final round,...
Mary Lattimore has been named a 2014 Pew Fellow by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, an organization that awards grants in support of Philadelphia's arts and cultural community. She is one of 12 individuals chosen to receive a $60,000 2014 fellowship award. "I...
The American Harp Society has announced winners of the 2014 Anne Adams Awards. Chloé Tula, Sophia Graf, and Molly O'Roarke were chosen among nine finalists to receive the three $2,000 awards designated for full-time study of the harp at a college or university. The...
The Canada Council for the Arts announced Caroline Cole as the winner of its prestigious Virginia Parker Prize of $25,000. The prize—established in 1982—is awarded annually to a Canadian classical musician under the age of 32 who demonstrates outstanding talent and...
The LaCrosse Irish Festival will sponsor a Celtic Harp Competition on Saturday August 9, 2014. "The purpose of the competition is to encourage musicians of all levels, ages, and backgrounds to further develop their skills," according to the competition's website....
What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist? It came in phases for me, but I first knew I wanted to play the harp when I was 9 years old. I went to a symphony concert in my hometown and saw a harp for the first time. I was in awe...
What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist? When I first switched from piano to harp at age 10. What’s your absolute favorite piece to play on the harp and why? There is more than one! One of them is Brahms...
Park Stickney performs on Friday, June 6. What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist? I was playing a lunch gig in NY, while working on my Masters at Juilliard, when suddenly it hit me that I really liked playing the harp. I was...
Complete this sentence: If I weren’t a harpist, I’d be… If I were not a harpist I would have loved to be an architect. I love building projects and reimagining space. The most important element of good harp technique is: Good...
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