The USA International Harp Competition (USAIHC) has announced the required repertoire for its 14th edition. The triennial competition will take place in four stages June 7–17, 2028, and is open to harpists of all nationalities between the ages of 18 and 32 as of May...
The International Competition of the Slovenian Harp Association has announced the prize winners of its 7th edition, held April 23–26 in Velenje, Slovenia. Laura Colombo won first prize in the top division, Category F, which takes place in two stages. Paola Gregoric...
Claudia Lamanna is the recipient of the 2026 “Una Vita nella Musica—Young People” Award in the performer category, presented by Teatro La Fenice in Venice as part of its “Una Vita nella Musica” Award at a ceremony held May 3 at Sale Apollinee in Teatro La Fenice. The...
The 3rd International Harp Competition “Ángel Padilla Crespo” has announced the results of its online contest held this spring, in which recorded video submissions serve as the competition performances. The competition is organized by the Opera Zero Cultural...
Australian musicians Alice Giles (harp) and Laura Chislett (flute) released their album Darkness Into Light on May 15 on Métier Records. The album features music by composer, visual artist, and natural scientist Edward Cowie. It includes two major works for solo flute...
Cheng Wei (Ashley) Lim is the newly appointed principal harp of the Binghamton (New York) Philharmonic Orchestra. “I’m thrilled to join the Binghamton Philharmonic and look forward to making music with such a passionate and talented group of musicians,” Lim says. “I’m...
Two events celebrating the music of Louis Spohr will take place this October in Nieste in central Germany. The 28th Louis Spohr Competition for Harp is scheduled for Oct. 5–7, with a winners’ concert on Oct. 10. The 3rd Louis Spohr Festival for Harp will take place...
Bethany Caswell is the first prize winner of the 2026 United Kingdom Harp Competition; Caswell is a student of Imogen Barford at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Natalie Lo (Royal Academy of Music) won second prize, and Hanjiao Zou (Royal College of Music) won...
New Orleans harpist Elise McArdle, a.k.a. Mere of Light, released her new album Heat of Ritual on April 24 on the Lighten Up Sounds label. The album features six tracks of acoustic folk harp, analog synthesizer, drum machine, and voice, which McArdle blends using...
Lara Somogyi will release her second album, a [time] patterned, on Aug. 28 via Mercury KX, with the lead single “sojourn” out now. According to a press release, the album is “a work rooted in contemporary classical yet reaching far beyond it, … an intensely human...
