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...
Atlanta harpist Mason Morton is featured on America's Got Talent with his group Sons of Serendip, who performed for the show's Quarter Finals on Tuesday, August 12. The bandmates met while attending graduate school at Boston University, where Morton studied with Ann...
The Somerset Folk Harp Festival awarded Sam Milligan their third Lifetime Achievement Award on July 31. The honor was bestowed in recognition of "his efforts to expand the harp world with his pioneering harp books, his role as the first editor of the American Harp...
Stella Castellucci tells the story of her life in Diving Deep for Sea Shells, her new memoir co-authored by Edgar Amaya. Born in Los Angeles in 1930 to musician father Louis Castellucci, Stella went on to continue and further his legacy. She joined Peggy Lee’s touring...
The Congress in Sydney was totally incredible. Not only were some of the biggest stars in the harp world there, but in concerts one after another. Remy, Naoko, the Isabelles, DHC, Sivan, Alice! Speaking of Alice Giles and her amazing Australian team, they were...
