ShruDeLi Ownbey has announced her retirement from Lyon & Healy West. Ownbey—who was featured in Harp Column's March-April 2003 issue—has been Artistic Director at the Salt Lake City branch of Lyon & Healy for 15 years, during which time she oversaw retail...
The USA International Harp Competition (USAIHC) has announced contestants who will participate in the organization's 10th competition to be held June 8–18, in Bloomington, Ind. The competition includes three stages of performance, culminating in a final stage...
Just over a year ago we featured World Harp Congress Artistic Director Isabelle Perrin in our March-April 2015 issue. At that time Perrin, was recovering from hand surgery, continuing to build her thriving teacher studio, and looking ahead to plans for the 2017 World...
The Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble, directed by Diana Stork, will set out to tour the Garberville area in Northern California from June 29 - July 5. The ensemble will present programs of harp music from around the world to raise awareness for saving the ancient...
Harpist Hannah Lash has also been composing music since she "was really tiny," says the Cleveland Institute of Music/Harvard trained/now professor of composition at Yale University School of Music. If that sounds like a run-on sentence, it's only because it's pretty...
It should come as no surprise to anyone when I point out that harpists comprise a rather—shall we say—un-diverse segment of the population. Let's call it like it is: at least in the U.S. and Europe, harpists tend to be white, and more often than not, women. Of course...
Nashville harpist Natalie Lurie is in the news leading up to the March 25 release of her EP No Mercy in the Night. The Indiana University-trained harpist (formerly Natalie Salzman) described forging a new career path after tendonitis forced her to take a step...
Spring and summer festival season will soon be upon us, so we've rounded up a list of the biggest and best harp events happening across the globe. From Tulsa, Okla. to Ancenis France, to Rio de Janeiro, something on this list is bound to appeal. Know about a festival...
We harpists love to complain about bad harp writing, but how many of us are really willing to do something about it? Enter Olivia Jageurs, who on February 1 launched the 15 Second Harp project. In her introductory video (above) Jageurs promises to record and post to...
What do Uma Thurman, Iggy Pop, Philip Glass, and Lavinia Meijer have in common? They will all be featured artists at the 2016 Tibet House Benefit Concert on Monday, Feb. 22 at Carnegie Hall. It's not often that a classical harpist gets invited to share the stage with...
