Jazz harp guru Park Stickney has released a new solo recording, All Harp—Globe Live. The disc features original compositions, along with Park's improvisational take on everything from standards (Duke Ellington's "Caravan") to rock (Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody) to...
Viewers of the 57th Grammys on February 8 got a surprise treat when the harp was featured front and center in a tribute performance of Stevie Wonder's "If It's Magic" sung by Usher and accompanied by harpist Melody Tai. The song is from Wonder's Songs in the Key of...
The America's Got Talent quartet Sons of Serendip, featuring harpist Mason Morton, has released their debut studio recording. The new release is a self-titled compilation of the group’s most memorable performances on the show. In its first week out the album is...
The New Orleans Jazz and Pop Harp Weekend has announced their lineup, which will include harpists Louise Trotter and Lori Andrews, and Bart Samolis on bass. The event will take place June 11–14, 2015, at the Crowne Plaza New Orleans Airport Hotel. "We want to...
We are sorry to report the sad news that harpist Cameron Huster Beck died February 2 following a struggle with Leukemia; she was 28. Cameron was pursuing a graduate degree at Peabody, where she studied with Ruth Inglefield. Cameron was from DeLand, Fla., and served as...
The Archaea Tree Ensemble (harp, flute, and percussion) is launching Troublesome Gap, a collaborative music festival for composers that will take place in the mountains of North Carolina May 17-24, 2015. The festival will be hosted at the Azule retreat center, in Hot...
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 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,...
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...
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...
