The Orange County Children’s Therapeutic Arts Center will present a Latin American Harp Festival and Concert June 25–28, in Santa Ana, Calif. Master harpists from México, Paraguay, and Colombia, accompanied by international ensemble musicians, will present three days...
Naoko Yoshino performs at the closing concert on June 7 at the Lyon & Healy 150th Birthday Festival; she will also perform on June 6. What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist? I really cannot think of a specific moment....
Carol Robbins performs at the Lyon & Healy 150th Birthday Festival on Friday., June 6. What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist? I saw a harpist playing in a hotel in Canada on a trip with my family when I was eight. The...
Marie Pierre Langlamet performs at the Lyon & Healy 150th Birthday Festival on Thursday June 5 and Friday June 6. What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist? The moment I stepped into Elizabeth Fontan Binoche's (my first and...
Angel Padilla will perform opening night (Wed. June 4) at the Lyon & Healy 150th Birthday Festival. What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist? When I was 5 years old and I listened to my first harp concert. Nicanor Zabaleta...
A few weeks ago I met Megan Landfair, who left her job as Executive Director of the USA International Harp Competition to become the manager of the Virginia Harp Center's Haddonfield, NJ branch. She'll jump right into her new position with a "Meet and Greet...
Stephanie Gustafson Amfahr is the new principal harpist with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, following an audition that took place May 23. 14 harpists auditioned for the per-service position, which begins with the 2014-2015 season. "It sounds like the conductor...
In case you haven't heard, harp-maker Lyon & Healy is throwing a birthday party in June. The company turns 150 this year, and in addition to coming out with a new harp model (the Style 150, of course) they'll be featuring a star-studded line up of harp concerts...
Kudos to Maeve Gilchrist for her shout-out in the The Telegraph's May 5 list of Folk Music: Treats for Spring. Gilchrist is set to release her album 20 Chandler Street on May 20, and she "proves that the harp can take its place as a instrument to drive an album of...
Camac Harps has announced the results of the Camac Harp Competition, London, which took place May 4 and 5, 2014. The competition, which was part of the 2014North London Festival of Music, Drama and Dance, was open to harpists up to age 30 living or studying in the...
