The Italian Harp Association has announced the winners of its 15th International Harp Contest in Italy Suoni d’Arpa, held Aug. 25–30 at the Fondazione Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo, Italy. Eve Lung of China won first prize in the top division,...
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) will hold auditions for principal harp on Oct. 28. Applications and audition deposits are due by Sept. 30. The VSO is a unionized, part-time, fully professional, per-service orchestra. Travel, per diem, and housing are provided per...
Zoe Vandermeer recently released her solo soprano and triple harp album, Angel’s Wine: The Songs of John Dowland, on Centaur Records. The recording features songs from Dowland’s First and Second Bookes, A Musical Banquet, and Pilgrim’s Solace. The album takes its name...
The Atlanta Ballet Orchestra has announced an opening for principal harp. Applicants must send a one-page resume by email to musicoperations@atlantaballet.com by Jan. 9, 2027. Auditions for this tenure-track position will be held in January 2027. For more information,...
French harpists Agnès Bérard and Primor Sluchin have co-founded a new charity organization called 1%HARP to gather and distribute resources to provide more opportunities to play the harp. “We all know we play a wonderful instrument that is still difficult to access...
Harpist Oliver Wass has released a new recording on Tactus Records, titled simply Harp music · Chamber music · Harp concerto, which features works that Wass commissioned from Misha Mullov-Abbado and pairs them with works from primarily Italian composers from the 16th...
At the conclusion of One Harp World, the World Harp Congress (WHC) announced the location and dates of its next event, which will take place July 10–16, 2029, in Berlin. Australian harpist Alice Giles is the newly appointed chair of the WHC, becoming the first...
French composer and harpist Bernard Andrès died on July 14, 2026, at the age of 84. Born in 1941 in Belfort, France, Andrès discovered the harp at age 19 and studied at conservatories in Besançon and Strasbourg before entering the Paris Conservatory, where he won a...
The Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, based in Taiwan, has announced auditions for its harp position. Applications are due by Sept. 13. Please see the audition listing for further details. Following a video pre-screening round, live auditions will take place Oct. 26–27 in...
Check out Harp Column’s competition rundown below to find out about upcoming opportunities at a glance.
Harper-composer Aisling Lyons will release her second studio album, Uaithne, on Aug. 7. Lyons says the album title refers to a legendary enchanted harp from Celtic mythology, said to bring harmony in music “while connecting the mortal and divine worlds.” Except for...
Mexican harpist Emmanuel Padilla Holguín is the newly appointed harpist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (OFUNAM), which performs at the concert hall Sala Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico City. Padilla Holguín will be on trial period until the end of the year. “This is...
The USA International Harp Competition (USAIHC) is calling for scores for the 9th Ruth Inglefield Composition Contest. Composers of all nationalities and ages are invited to submit new unpublished works for solo harp, between six and eight minutes in duration. The...
The Rave Harps International Prestige Award has announced the results of its 2026 “Spin-Off” solo competition featuring pop, jazz, and Latin genres. The competition took place online, with a live winners’ concert in Singapore as part of the Asia Harp Fiesta held June...
The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra is accepting applications for principal harp auditions, which will take place Sept. 8–9. This is an open tenured position paid on a per-service basis. For more information and to apply, visit the orchestra website.
The Royal Academy of Music in London has named Stephen Fitzpatrick as head of harp, beginning in the 2026–27 academic year. Catrin Finch will step down from her current role as head of harp at the end of this academic year, but she will continue with the harp...
Harpist Alex Chang is set to release her new album Abandon on July 17 on Adhyâropa Records. According to a press release, the album has two themes: love and improvisational creativity. Chang combines the sounds of acoustic concert harp and amplified, modulated...
The USA International Harp Competition (USAIHC) is searching for an executive director. The executive director leads the organizational and financial management, strategic planning, and fundraising activities of the USAIHC, and directs four main USAIHC programs: the...
The Martine Géliot International Harp Competition has announced new dates for its 10th edition, which will now take place April 4–7, 2027, near Paris in Fontainebleau-Avon, France. The triennial competition was originally scheduled for Oct. 29–Nov. 1, 2026. The 10th...
Grace Roepke is the newly appointed principal harp of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), starting this fall. Roepke says she is thrilled to join the ensemble. “There is such a palpable love for music-making when playing with and listening to the SLSO,” she says....
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