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Perpignan 2014

Did you miss the annual Camac Festival, held this year in Perpignan, France? No worries, they've created a highlight video with performances and interviews from the week-end long event, held Oct. 17–19, 2014. Read more about it on their harpblog.

World Harp Festival in Paraguay

World Harp Festival in Paraguay

The 8th World Harp Festival in Paraguay takes place Oct. 3–5, 2014, in Asuncion, Paraguay. The event includes three days of concerts, workshops, and master classes by over 50 national artists performing on traditional harps, as well as international artists from North...

14 Sequenzas

14 Sequenzas

  I've always been a fan of contemporary music. Crazy, I know, but it's true. There's something about the innovation, the new ideas about what music could become, and the incredible variety found in new music that has appealed to me ever since I began my musical...

Camac Festival Goes to Perpignan

Camac Festival Goes to Perpignan

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...

Chicago Harp Quartet plays Glass

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,...

Report from the World Harp Congress, Sydney

Report from the World Harp Congress, Sydney

The Congress in Sydney was totally incredible. Not only were some of the biggest stars in the harp world there, but in concerts one after another. Remy, Naoko, the Isabelles, DHC, Sivan, Alice!  Speaking of Alice Giles and her amazing Australian team, they were...

WHC Sydney Draws to its Finale

WHC Sydney Draws to its Finale

After six exciting days, the 12th World Harp Congress officially ended in the morning on the 26th. The last evening concert was on Friday, July 25th at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, an unbelievably gorgeous hall, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra featuring...

Harps from All Over the World at WHC Sydney

Harps from All Over the World at WHC Sydney

At the World Harp Congress, not only harp companies like Lyon&Healy, Salvi, and Camac brought their gorgeous harps to showcase and to sell, I also had the chance to see different kinds of...

Masterclass with María Luisa Rayan-Forero (WHC Sydney)

Masterclass with María Luisa Rayan-Forero (WHC Sydney)

  It has been wonderful to listen and watch other harpists perform and learn from them at the World Harp Congress, and today (July 25th), I finally got to participate. María Luisa Rayan-Forero gave a masterclass at the Ballroom at For Seasons Hotel this afternoon...

More from The WHC!

More from The WHC!

Wow!  What an amazing week it has been.  The World Congress has been such a blast.  It has been great to meet so many incredible harpists from all around the world.  The conference has been so well organized and packed full of wonderful presentations, masterclasses...