The Mabel Fulton Weiger Harp Composition Competition for Sacred Music will award $500 to the winning composition of a new work for harp. The award is sponsored by harpist Barbara Weiger Lepke Sims, the Colorado Music Society, and Abundant Silence Publishing. The...
Yolanda Kondonassis releases “Together” with Jason Vieaux
Yolanda Kondonassis has released the CD Together with guitarist Jason Vieaux on the Azica label. The recording features original works for harp and guitar including Alan Hovhaness' Spirit of Trees, Xavier Montsalvatge's Fantasia, Máximo Diego Pujol's Suite Magica,...
Rave Harps Center Opens in Singapore
Harpist Katryna Tan has opened the Rave Harps Center, in Singapore, as a home base for the Rave Harps Academy that she founded over 10 years ago. Rave Harps is the representative of Camac Harps in Singapore and Malaysia and the new center will also serve as a harp...
2Tone Featured in International Musician
The jazz duo 2Tone—with harpist Cindy Horstman and bassist Michael Medina—is featured in the January 2015 issue of International Music. The publication is the journal of the American Federation of Musicians; Horstman and Medina are members of Dallas local 72-147. The...
France goes to Kyoto
The Académie de musique française in Kyoto is now accepting applications for its 2015 Academie to take place March 20–April 1 at the Insitut Français in Kyoto. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2015. Now in its 25th year, the Academie began including harp in its...
Q and A with Ann Hobson Pilot
This week Ann Hobson Pilot releases Astor Piazzolla: Escualo, her new recording with Lucia Lin and JP Jofre on the Harmonia Mundi label featuring the works of Astor Piazzolla. I asked the former Boston Symphony Orchestra principal harpist to tell us about the...
Mini-fest Alert
Looking for some harp inspiration this year? Lucky for you, harp mini festivals are all the rage. (We've defined a mini festival as 4 days or less.) Here are a few of our favorites coming up in the earlier part of 2015: Camac Harp Weekend in Cardiff, Wales Camac Harps...
Cynthia Price-Glynn Retires
Cynthia Price-Glynn retired in December as Chair of the Harp Department at Boston Conservatory. Price-Glynn developed the school’s unique collaborative harp department, "which offers teachers, training, and experiences in a wide range of career possibilities for...
4 Girls 4 Harps Launch Harp Chamber Music Competition
U.K.-based harp quartet 4 Girls 4 Harps has announced plans for the British Harp Chamber Music Competition 2015 for U.K. residents with a goal "to inspire future generations of harpists and as a platform to showcase the harp within diverse ensembles," according to...
Isabelle Moretti to teach at Académie musicale de Villecroze
Isabelle Moretti, harp instructor at the Paris Conservatory, will teach at the Académie musicale de Villecroze, in the South of France, from March 31–April 11, 2015. The Académie sponsors master classes for various instruments from April through October. "Candidates...
