The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has featured Bridget Kibbey in an Artist Profile video. Kibbey is a Season Artist on the CMS roster and will perform on their Dec. 9 Baroque Remix concert at Alice Tully Hall. She has also been named a Principal Artist for...
World Harp Festival in Paraguay
The 8th World Harp Festival in Paraguay takes place Oct. 3–5, 2014, in Asuncion, Paraguay. The event includes three days of concerts, workshops, and master classes by over 50 national artists performing on traditional harps, as well as international artists from North...
Tatiana Alquati Takes Top Prize in Saint Petersburg Harp Competition
Results are in for the 3rd International Harp Competition—Golden Harp—held Sept. 15–22, 2014, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The winners are: First prize: Tatiana Alquati (Italy) Second prize: Alexandra Tikhonova (Russia) Third prize: Agne Keblyte (Lithuania) and Joel...
Megan Conley named Principal Harp in Houston
Megan Conley is the new Principal Harpist with the Houston Symphony, following an audition process that began in February, 2014. The audition included four rounds: two rounds in February were screened, followed by two unscreened rounds in April. "The semi-finals...
Marianne Channon Welshman dies at 102
Harpist Marianne Channon Welshman died on August 18, 2014, at 102. Marianne began playing the harp at 14, studying with Frances Calder in Providence, R.I. At age 19, Marianne went on to the Fontainebleau School of Music, in France, where she studied with Marcel...
2015 Lyon & Healy Awards Announced
Lyon & Healy President Antonio Forero issued an invitation to harpists to participate in the 2015 Lyon & Healy Awards, to be held June 19 and 20 prior to the American Harp Society Student Institute at Utah State University in Logan, UT. The award competition...
Winners of the Harp Carnivale Student Harp Ensemble Contest
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...
4 Girls 4 Harps 15th Anniversary Year!
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...
Margarita Csonka Montanaro retires from The Philadelphia Orchestra
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...
14 Sequenzas
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...
