What better way to celebrate Maurice Ravel's birthday than by listening to this amazing performance of Isabelle Moretti playing his iconic harp composition "Introduction and Allegro." Ravel was born March 7 1875 in Ciboure, France. This performance took place...
A Masterful Performance
It's not often we have a chance to learn directly from the masters, but this recording of Marcel Grandjany performing Handel's Concerto in Bb allows us to do just that. (Many thanks to Jana Bouskova for tipping us off about it on Facebook!) He really does make it...
Catrin Finch plays “Clair de Lune”
For your mid-winter listening pleasure... it doesn't get much better than "Clair de Lune" performed by the incomparable Catrin Finch. The famous piece is the third movement of Debussy's Suite Bergamasque, for solo piano, but you have to think Debussy knew it would be...
All that Jazz
Brooklyn harpist Brandee Younger channels Dorothy Ashby at her "Tribute to Dorothy Ashby" concert last month at New York's DROM music venue. The tune is Younger's own "Respected Destroyer," which presenter Revive Music likened to a cross between Chuck Brown, Ravel,...
Happy Birthday Mozart
Happy Birthday Mozart! As we all know, he didn't leave harpists much to remember him by, so we have to beg, borrow, and steal wherever we can. Here's the Lipman Harp Duo performing his Sonata in C—originally for piano—transcribed by Phyllis Schlomovitz. The performers...
Grammy Music Educator Award Recipient is a Harpist
And the first-ever Grammy Music Educator Award goes to… a harpist! Kent Knappenberger, who teaches music at Westfield Academy and Central School, in Westfield, N.Y., is slated to receive the inaugural prize at a Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception...
Harp in the Spotlight!
The Internet is abuzz with talk of the harp! Everyone from Cosmo to the Huffington Post is tweeting about Edinburgh native Anna McLuckie's performance this week on BBC One's "The Voice" reality show. The 17-year old harpist, currently a student at The City of...
Happy Harmonics!
Looking for an example of great harmonic technique? Look no further than Elisabeth Plank's lovely rendition of "Serenade" Op. 83 by Parish Alvars. The Austrian harpist performs on the New Artist Series Jan. 16 at the Austrian Cultural Forum London. Read more about...
Kondonassis Releases American Harp
Acclaimed recording artist Yolanda Kondonassis has just released her new album, American Harp, which includes works by Elliott Carter, John Cage, Lowell Lieberman, John Williams, Norman Dello Joio, Hannah Lash, and Stephen Paulus. "I've wanted to make this recording...
Robert Maxwell Dies
The December issue of theInternational Musician listed Robert Maxwell, a life member of the American Federation of Musicians local 802 (New York City), as deceased. Harpist Sam Milligan has confirmed that the legendary harpist and composer of "Ebb Tide" and...
