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Cristina Montes Mateo Releases Solo Album

Cristina Montes Mateo Releases Solo Album

Cristina Montes Mateo – Principal Harpist of the Valencia Opera House and Royal Harpist to the King and Queen of Spain – has just released her second solo album, "Voyage," with Cid Records. Winner of numerous harp competitions and awards, both international and...

Q and A with March to May

Q and A with March to May

Seattle harp and guitar duo March to May come out with their new album Through the Night on April 21. The "folk-tinged" duo featuring Beth Wesche on harp and Darren Guyaz on guitar got its start in 2012 and shortly after released their critically acclaimed Water's...

Q and A with Duo Scorpio

Q and A with Duo Scorpio

Duo Scorpio is back in the news with the release of their new album Two Bridges on the American Modern Recordings label. The new project features entirely original compositions for harp duo by composers Andy Akiho, Ferdinando DeSena, Christopher Dietz, Nico Muhly,...

Q and A with Elisa Thorn

Q and A with Elisa Thorn

Vancouver harpist Elisa Thorn came onto our radar when we noticed a writeup about her a few weeks ago in the Vancouver Sun. Thorn has just released "Hue," an improvisational recording based on the paintings of her father, Bruce Thorn. Thorn was drawn to creative...

Anaïs Gaudemard releases Harp Concertos

Anaïs Gaudemard releases Harp Concertos

French harpist Anaïs Gaudemard has released the new recording Harp Concertos on the Claves Records label. The recording includes Alberto Ginastera's  Harp Concerto; the Concerto for Harp by François-Adrien Boieldieu; and Claude Debussy's "danses sacrée et profane,"...

Lavinia Meijer releases “The Glass Effect”

Lavinia Meijer releases The Glass Effect with a video trailer about the project. Lavinia Meijer's new collaboration with Philip Glass, The Glass Effect has just been released on the Sony Classical label. The two-CD set includes 10 piano etudes by Glass, arranged by...

Silke Aichhorn releases “Miniaturen 3”

Silke Aichhorn releases “Miniaturen 3”

German harpist Silke Aichhorn has recently released her twenty-second CD, "Miniaturen 3," on her own record label – Hörmuzik. It is available on her website. Aichhorn is also a featured artist on Harp Column Music, where her arrangements for harp can be purchased for...

Anneleen Lenaerts releases “Schumann & Schubert”

Anneleen Lenaerts releases “Schumann & Schubert”

Vienna Philharmonic harpist Anneleen Lenaerts' new recording "Schumann & Schubert" has just been released on the Warner Classics label. The album also features clarinetist  Dionysis Grammenos. The two perform 13 tracks of unusual transcriptions of works by the two...

Ginastera: One Hundred

Ginastera: One Hundred

Ginastera: One Hundred—the latest project by recording artist Yolanda Kondonassis—has just been released by Oberlin Music with distribution by Naxos. Kondonassis is the executive producer of the new album, which celebrates the 2016 centennial of the iconic Argentine...

Erin Hill releases Harp Town

Erin Hill releases Harp Town

Erin Hill has just released a new album entitled Harp Town, with Cleopatra records. Featured in the July-August 2013 issue of the Harp Column, Hill not only plays the harp, but is also a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. Her new album combines pop...