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Horstman receives bronze medal at 2023 Global Music Awards

Horstman receives bronze medal at 2023 Global Music Awards

The Global Music Awards of 2023 has awarded 2tone, a duo featuring harpist Cindy Horstman and bassist Michael Medina, the Bronze Medal in the instrumental division for their composition and production of “Remembering” from their album Duets. “We are thrilled to...

Luzzati and Gaudemard receive career advancement awards

Luzzati and Gaudemard receive career advancement awards

The Institut de France held an awards ceremony for recent recipients of the Prix Gisèle Tissier-Grandpierre. Constance Luzzati was awarded the 2022 prize, while Anaïs Gaudemard received the award in 2021. According to the Institut de France, this annual award provides...

de Maistre wins OPUS KLASSIK award

de Maistre wins OPUS KLASSIK award

French harpist Xavier de Maistre has won an OPUS KLASSIK award in the category “Concerto Recording of the Year” for his album Glière, Mosolov: Harp Concertos, recorded with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Nathalie Stutzmann. The OPUS KLASSIK is a...

Harpist recognized in the King’s Birthday Honours List

Harpist recognized in the King’s Birthday Honours List

Australian harpist Michael Johnson was recognized in the King’s Birthday Honours List along with 1,191 other respected Australians. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the general division for his service to music as both a performer and a...

Wan named a winner of Astral Artists National Competition

Wan named a winner of Astral Artists National Competition

Harpist Noël Wan was recently named a winner of the 2023 Astral Artists National Competition, following a live audition round and interview held in Philadelphia. She will join the Astral Artists career mentorship program in the fall as the fifth harpist in the...

American Harp Foundation announces 2023 award winners

American Harp Foundation announces 2023 award winners

The American Harp Foundation (AHF) has announced the 2023 winners of its Kids for Camp Scholarship and Kathy Bundock Moore Memorial Scholarship. Joselyn Sky Goldman is the winner of the 2023 Kids for Camp Scholarship. The 14 year old is from Atascadero, California,...

Lyra Society awards new harp in first Ann Hobson Pilot Award

Lyra Society awards new harp in first Ann Hobson Pilot Award

Philadelphia harp student Medgina Maitre is the winner of the Lyra Society’s inaugural Ann Hobson Pilot Award and will receive a new concert grand harp valued at $25,000. Maitre began her harp studies with Lyra Society Teaching Artist Elizabeth Steiner. She is...

Gordon-Cartier receives Wharton Arts Education Award

Gordon-Cartier receives Wharton Arts Education Award

Robbin Gordon-Cartier is this year's Education Award Recipient from the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts. Gordon-Cartier is the founder of the Elizabeth School District harp program, which is now at the Cicely Tyson Performing Arts School in the East Orange...

Brandee Younger nominated for GRAMMY

Brandee Younger nominated for GRAMMY

Brandee Younger is nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY Award in the "Best Instrumental Composition" category for her composition "Beautiful is Black," from her 2021 album Somewhere Different. Younger says that the slow ballad, which is her favorite on the album, gave her a...

Angela Schwarzkopf wins JUNO Award

Angela Schwarzkopf wins JUNO Award

Angela Schwarzkopf won the 2020 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber for her album detach. The first harpist to win in 25 years, she shares, "I am beyond thrilled to win a JUNO Award. It is such an honor to join the previous harp winners Judy...