The American Harp Society announced three winners in its Harp Carnivale Student Harp Ensemble Contest. The winning ensembles, which were selected after submitting an application and recording last spring, performed at the AHS's 41st National Conference, held in New...
It's our birthday! And our gift is new music To celebrate our 15th anniversary year in 2015, we are commissioning composers Alissa Firsova, Nicola LeFanu, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Savourna Stevenson to collaborate on a substantial new piece for harp quartet.As a...
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...
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...
Harpists are invited to enter the 2015 Lewisville Lake Symphony International Competition for Strings. The competition is open to to violinists, violists, cellists, bassists, and harpists ages 18–30 who are planning a professional career in music and are currently...
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...
Scottish harp and fiddle duo Catriona McKay and Chris Stout have won a Herald Angel award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. McKay and Stout, who have worked together as a duo for almost 20 years and also appear together in the Shetland band Fiddlers’ Bid, won...
Harp Duo Lilac 94, comprised of Christina Brier and Kathryn Sloat, have teamed up with a trio of composers—Daniel Morel, Alex Cooke, and Bret Bohman—to create three new pieces for harp duo as part of a consortium project to include 21 harp duos. The collection will be...
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,...
By now you may have read the news that harpist Mason Morton and his group Sons of Serendip will be competing in the Semifinals of the popular TV show America's Got Talent. (Watch them perform.) The show will be over soon enough, but whether they win or lose I'm pretty...
