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Q and A with Claudia Lucia Lamanna

Q and A with Claudia Lucia Lamanna

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we’re talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. Check in each week as we present insights from these talented young artists. Give us some background: when did...

Q and A with Lise Vandersmissen

Q and A with Lise Vandersmissen

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we’re talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. Check in each week as we present insights from these talented young artists. Give us some background: when did...

Cristina Montes Mateo Releases Solo Album

Cristina Montes Mateo Releases Solo Album

Cristina Montes Mateo – Principal Harpist of the Valencia Opera House and Royal Harpist to the King and Queen of Spain – has just released her second solo album, "Voyage," with Cid Records. Winner of numerous harp competitions and awards, both international and...

Q and A with Claire Thai

Q and A with Claire Thai

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we’re talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. Check in each week as we present insights from these talented young artists. Give us some background: when did...

Camac Competition in London Announces Winners

Camac Competition in London Announces Winners

The results of the Camac Harp Competition of the North London Festival 2017 have just been announced. Participation in the competition is open to harpists in the United Kingdom and Ireland, under the age of 30. The winners were selected by jury members Ieuan Jones and...

Royal College of Music Celebrates Marisa Robles

Royal College of Music Celebrates Marisa Robles

On the occasion of her 80th birthday, the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London will hold a tribute concert for Marisa Robles, to honor her contribution to the harp world and classical music in general. The concert will take place on Sunday, May 14th, at 6:15 PM, in...

Q and A with Abigail Kent

Q and A with Abigail Kent

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we’re talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. Check in each week as we present insights from these talented young artists. Give us some background: when did...

Germaine Lorenzini, 1942–2017

Germaine Lorenzini, 1942–2017

Remembering the French Harp Pedagogue —by Isabelle Moretti I don’t know how I am going to talk about Germaine! How can you write a eulogy about somebody so alive? I can already hear her laughing! She had a full laugh—in-your-face, generous; it was a smoker’s laugh, a...

New issue sneak peek!

New issue sneak peek!

The new issue of Harp Column has hit the stands, featuring the incomparable lever harpist Maeve Gilchrist! We know you're going to love reading about what this "Music Maeven" has been up to lately. "I was thinking about what I wanted to create a concerto with, from...

Q and A with Zhan Ran

Q and A with Zhan Ran

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we’re talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. Check in each week as we present insights from these talented young artists. Give us some background: when did...

Q and A with Kan Yuet

Q and A with Kan Yuet

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we’re talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. Check in each week as we present insights from these talented young artists. Give us some background: when did...

Q and A with Marina Chudakova

Q and A with Marina Chudakova

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we’re talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. Check in each week as we present insights from these talented young artists. Give us some background: when did...

Suoni d’Arpa Competition Announced

Suoni d’Arpa Competition Announced

The Italian Harp Association has just announced their 7th International Harp Competition, "Suoni d'Arpa," to be held in the medieval town of Saluzzo from September 2nd to 7th, 2017. The competition is open to harpists of all nationalities and offers three age...

Q and A with Tiffany Wong

Q and A with Tiffany Wong

Leading up to the 13th World Harp Congress this July in Hong Kong, we're talking with performers for the ever-popular WHC Focus on Youth showcase concerts. "The goal of the Focus on Youth Concerts is to establish a platform for gifted young harpists at each Congress,...

2017 Félix Godefroid competition results

2017 Félix Godefroid competition results

Results have been announced for the 2017 Félix Godefroid Harp Competition, held April 2–4 at the Tournai Conservatory in Belgium. The competition is hosted by Les Amis De La Harpe Mosane and takes place every three years. It was created to "honor the works"...

Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble launches fundraiser

Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble launches fundraiser

Want to support harpists and help the environment at the same time? Check out the latest project by the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble (BAYHE), under the director of Diana Stork. The group is on a mission to raise awareness of the need to save ancient Redwood trees and...

Edinburgh Harp Festival 2017

Edinburgh Harp Festival 2017

The Edinburgh Harp Festival happens this week beginning March 31 and continuing through April 5. The annual event has drawn Celtic harp players from around the world to Edinburgh since 1982 when John Hoare and Mike Stevens of Pilgrim Harps planned the first event to...

2017 Guide to Spring and Summer Festivals

2017 Guide to Spring and Summer Festivals

Looking for a dose of inspiration this season? We've scoured the internet so you don't have to! Check out all the great spring and summer festivals and conferences happening in 2017. Do you know about a something we missed? Tell us, and be sure to post on our Harp...

Lyon & Healy launches “Harptacular”

Lyon & Healy launches “Harptacular”

Lyon & Healy Harps will host three weekend harp events throughout the U.S. this year as part of its new Harptacular series. "Harptacular will bring a unique learning, networking, and performance opportunity to cities across the country." says the company. The...

Registration Open for World Harp Congress in Hong Kong

Registration Open for World Harp Congress in Hong Kong

Registration is now open for the 13th World Harp Congress (WHC), which will take place July 7–13 in Hong Kong. This marks the first time the triennial event—which typically draws about 800 harpists from 50 countries—has been held in Asia. Events will take place at the...

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