The line-up of participants for the ARD International Music Competition in Munich has just been announced. This prestigious classical music competition was first established in 1952. It is the largest of its kind in Germany, where it is hosted by the Bayerischer...
The American Harp Society Foundation will host the 2016 Anne Adams Awards and Grandjany Competition on June 3–4, 2016. The competition rounds will be held in Kresge Auditorium at the DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Following the competition each day will be...
Harp maker Allan Shiers, founder of Telynau Teffi Harps, was named Maker of the Year at the recent Heritage Crafts Association annual conference in London on May 7th, 2016. The conference, entitled Craft Across Continents, focused on how craft and heritage is...
Starting in September 2016, Anneleen Lenaerts will be the harp instructor in the Classical Department of Maastricht Conservatory, the Netherlands. Lenaerts, who was featured in the May-June 2015 issue of Harp Column, adds this latest appointment to an already long...
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...
