The USA International Harp Competition (USAIHC) has announced their 5th Solo Harp Composition Contest, to take place in conjunction with the 10th USA International Harp Competition to be held in summer, 2016. Over 250 composers from 40 countries have participated in...
The Met Orchestra Muscians welcomed back their oldest retiree, harpist Reinhardt Elster, for a visit to his former workplace at the Metropolitan Opera House. Elster, now 100, served a 38-year stint as harpist with the orchestra from 1948–1986. "By the time he retired,...
The American Harp Society (AHS) has appointed Kathryn McManus its new Executive Director. "I am thrilled to be appointed as the Executive Director of the American Harp Society," says Kathryn McManus in an announcement issued by the AHS. "To be able to combine my...
eatrice Schroeder Rose, principal harpist in the Houston Symphony for 31 years, died in October at the age of 91. Rose had a distinguished career spanning six decades. Born in Ridgewood, N.J., her dream of becoming a harpist began at the age of...
enevieve Claire (Duffy) Winkenbach of Oklahoma City, died on Dec. 21, 2014. A renowned harpist, musician, and teacher, she was born on Dec. 30, 1928 in Omaha, Neb. to Dr. Francis and Ruth Duffy of Enid. Ms. Winkenbach graduated from Mt. Carmel...
athy Bundock and I met in Rochester when we were both 17 years old. Kathy was a freshman at the Eastman School of Music studying harp with Eileen Malone. I left my home in Rochester to begin college at the Juilliard School of Music, having spent my...
he harp community has lost a first-class harpist with the passing of Catherine Gotthoffer on Dec. 29. She was a great friend to all of us and worked for 36 years as a very successful and highly respected studio harpist in Hollywood, recording on...
he first time I met Joan Ceo was in a Hartford Symphony rehearsal, for which I had been hired to play second harp for Petroushka. I had only heard tidbits about Joan from my teacher, Phyllis Wright, who preceded her as principal harpist in...
live Morely passed away on Jan. 3. He was born into the music business. The Morely family has been involved in the making, repair, and selling of harps in the United Kingdom since 1817, when George Morely (1790–1852) registered his harp-making and...
Lyon and Healy Harps has been featured in a local ABC 7 Chicago news story highlighting area businesses. Though harpists probably won't learn anything new about the instrument (and may cringe at reporter Judy Hsu's interpretation of "Twinkle Twinkle") it's worth...
