After three rounds of auditions on May 31, Haley Rhodeside was selected as the new principal harpist of the Orlando Philharmonic. This is the second audition the orchestra hosted for this position, with the jury voting not to hire following two harpists' trials last...
Rachel Lee Hall won the 2019 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Concerto Competition after performing Ginastera's harp concerto with the symphony on June 1. Hall won $25,000 and a repeat performance with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall on July 10. The finals included fellow...
Brandee Younger's new album, Soul Awakening, was recently featured on NPR. Reviewed by Nate Chinen, the article summarizes her musical trajectory, saying, "Younger, 35, has spent much of the last dozen years in a state of arrival, or maybe a process of emergence....
The results of the the first Pratté International Harp Competition have been announced. Held May 10–11 in Norrköping, Sweden as part of the Pratté International Festival, first prize was awarded to Iván Bragado Poveda of Spain. Italy's Claudia Lucia Lamanna took home...
Iván Bragado Poveda is the new principal harpist with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Held May 15 in Tallinn, 15 harpists competed over two rounds. In addition to 10 orchestra excerpts, harpists were asked to prepare both the Spohr Fantasie and...
The world premiere recording of Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Harp, performed by Yolanda Kondonassis and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, is featured on the orchestra's new album American Rapture, released May 17. Under conductor Ward Stare, the recording also...
Ellie Kirk is the new principal harpist with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra following an audition on May 12. Held at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill., 14 harpists auditioned, with seven competitors advancing to semi–finals and two moving on to the finals....
Claudia Lamanna won first prize in the Camac Harp Competition held May 5–6 as part of the 2019 North London Festival of Music, Speech, and Drama. Second prize was awarded to Mared Pugh–Evans, and Lise Vandersmissen took home third. "I was very grateful to win the...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina catches up harpist-turned-audiologist Louisa Ellis Woodson, who authored the feature article Listen Up in our March-April 2019 issue. For...
Abigail Kent was awarded the silver medal in the 2019 Medallion International Concerto Competition in Atlanta. She will perform a concerto with the Orchestra Noir in their 2019–2020 season. “I was so elated to have made it to [super–finals], and even more so to get...
Indiana University Press has released an English translation of the 2013 French text, Guide to the Contemporary Harp. Written by Mathilde Aubat–Andrieu, Laurence Bancaud, Aurélie Barbé and Hélène Breschand, the book covers organology, notation, composition, and...
The USA International Harp Competition has announced the harpists competing in the 11th contest. Taking place July 3–13, the 40 competitors come from 18 countries and range in age from 18 to 28. Erin Brooker–Miller, the competition’s executive director, says, “After a...
The Patagonia Instrument Project is raising money to buy a 34–string Welsh Teifi harp for music students in the Chubut region of Patagonia. These students were visited by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2015 as part of a community residency celebrating the...
Ector County Independent School District is hiring a full–time harp instructor for grades K–12 in Odessa, Texas. Open to harp teachers with a bachelor’s degree and a valid Texas teaching certificate, the ideal candidate should have “strong organizational,...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina catches up with jazz harpist Charles Overton, who we featured in the March-Apri 2019 issue of Harp Column. For more practical harp news...
Salvi Harps released a new electro acoustic 38–stringed lever harp modeled off the popular Una Celtic harp. With a dark gray finish, the instrument is promoted for its “silkgut” copper strings, which have a metallic copper powder to reduce the sound shift that happens...
Pictured above, front row, L to R: Maria Rindenello-Parker, Nancy O’Brien, David Kolacny, Jason Azem, Andrea Ventura, Davide Rosso, Peter Wiley, Rachel Galbraith, Hilmar Gusik; middle row: Juno Lin, John Papadolias, Maro Lejarre, Shoichiro Takiguchi, Ryan Skelly,...
The 2nd international Glowing Harp Competition in Kharkiv, Ukraine concluded on April 10, with prizes going to competitors in six categories. Spanning five days, participants came from Japan, Italy, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Turkey, and the Ukraine....
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina catches up with sacred music specialist Rhett Barnwell. Find Rhett's tutorials on playing and arranging sacred music in his Harp Column...
On March 29, Anneleen Lenaerts released her sixth album, highlighting the works of Nino Rota and featuring Emmanuel Pahud on flute and Adrien Perruchon conducting the Brussels Philharmonic. In addition to Rota’s harp concerto, the Sarabanda e Toccata, and his flute...
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