Sivan Magen is one of 16 contenders in consideration for the new Warner Music Prize, established by the Warner Music Group in association with Blavatnik Family Foundation and Carnegie Hall. The $100,000 cash award "will be given to a classical musician aged 18 to 35...
Alice Giles appeared Oct. 29 on Richmond's Virginia this Morning local news show to promote her Oct. 30 concert at Grace Baptist Church. If you can suffer through the commercial and endless questions and stereotypical angel references by the reporter, you'll be...
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has featured Bridget Kibbey in an Artist Profile video. Kibbey is a Season Artist on the CMS roster and will perform on their Dec. 9 Baroque Remix concert at Alice Tully Hall. She has also been named a Principal Artist for...
This week marks the retirement of Margarita Csonka Montanaro after 51 years as a harpist with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Montanaro was hired by Eugene Ormandy, and also worked with Leopold Stokowski. In 1994 she was named co-principal harpist, working alongside...
Atlanta harpist Mason Morton is featured on America's Got Talent with his group Sons of Serendip, who performed for the show's Quarter Finals on Tuesday, August 12. The bandmates met while attending graduate school at Boston University, where Morton studied with Ann...
Stella Castellucci tells the story of her life in Diving Deep for Sea Shells, her new memoir co-authored by Edgar Amaya. Born in Los Angeles in 1930 to musician father Louis Castellucci, Stella went on to continue and further his legacy. She joined Peggy Lee’s touring...
Mary Lattimore has been named a 2014 Pew Fellow by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, an organization that awards grants in support of Philadelphia's arts and cultural community. She is one of 12 individuals chosen to receive a $60,000 2014 fellowship award. "I...
The Chicago Harp Quartet is heading to the 2014 Fischoff Competition to compete in the Quarter Final round, which takes place on May 9 in South Bend, Ind. This marks the first time an ensemble comprised solely of harpists will compete in the prestigious chamber music...
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...
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...
