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Fresh off her gold-medal win at the 2016 USA International Harp Competition, Katherine Siochi sits down to talk about her the experience and how she got there.
Need to make more but don’t want to put down your harp to work at Starbucks? We’ve got 50 ideas to use your music skills to put more money in your pocket.
Make yourself into a model student by developing these five key habits.
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Will I ever use this music theory in the real world? According to this harpist, the answer is a definitive yes.
Reviews and more
8/10 Queens Duo: Hanna Rabe, harp; Verena Beatrix Schulte, flute; TYXart, 2015. Queens Duo—German harpist, Hanna Rabe and flutist Verena Beatrix Schulte—quotes Einstein on its new album The Art of Imagination: “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” And it is unquestionably so in this glorious album. The spirit […]
7/10 Cristina Braga, harp, and the Brandenburger Symphoniker; Biscoito Fino, 2016. She has it all—the sultry voice, the look, great friends to make music with—and she ties everything up in a bow accompanying herself and providing the entire foundation with her harp. It’s Brazil’s national treasure, Cristina Braga, this time recording live in Germany’s Brandenburg […]
Three collections by Evelyn Huber and a new arranging and improv reference book from Felice Pomeranz.
A harpist’s wardrobe has to take lots of criteria into account—the gig, the audience, the instrument. We asked harpists to share photos of their harp threads, using the hashtag #practicalharpist. Judging by how many shoe shots we saw, pedal harpists are crazy about their footwear. Here are some photos we loved, and you can check […]
Q: Is it worth the money to attend conferences and workshops?