Canadian International Summer Harp Institute

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

Gianetta Baril and I co-founded Canadian International Summer Harp Institute in the summer of 2012. Our inaugural session was held at the VSO School of Music in beautiful downtown Vancouver, and our faculty also included Judy Loman and Cristina Braga. We had an Alexander technique class, daily morning stretches, private lessons, ensemble sessions, faculty and student recitals, group outings and dinners. We plan to do it again in the summer of 2013 with the same faculty. We will post the information as soon as we have exact dates finalized. Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/CanadianInternationalSummerHarpInstitute.

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

The dates are July 28 (orientation day) – August 10, 2013, at the Vancouver Academy of Music, 1270 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J 4R9. Judy Loman and Cristina Braga will be joining us again. Our web site should be up in the next month. Looking forward to seeing old friends and new ones!

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

Here is a video of the end of our faculty recital last year, with all of playing a quartet version of “Polka” by Jacques Press.

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

http://www.cishi.ca/ is our new web site!

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

For more information on the program, email cishi.info@gmail.com

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

2014’s session will be in early July, and will be about ten days long. Watch our web site for updates in January. We will be in the VSO School of Music on Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

[Philippa mcauliffe]

I’d love to come but Mummy says not when I am already going to the World Harp Congress during school term time in July. Please do another one in 2015 – it looks great! See you in Sydney. Love Philippa.

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

I am looking forward to seeing you in Sydney at the WHC! I just got the first few pages of the new piece that I commissioned, and it looks great. I’ll be performing on the Friday in the afternoon.

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

The dates for 2014 will be July 2-11, at the VSO School of Music in beautiful downtown Vancouver. We are just adding changes to the web site in the next week or two, and the registration page should be ready by February.

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

Registration is now open on http://www.cishi.ca!

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

Though we are sorry that Cristina Braga cannot make it, we are delighted to announce that Julia Kay Jamieson will be joining our faculty this year!

Julia Kay Jamieson is an energetic performer, dedicated teacher, composer and award-winning harpist living in Champaign, IL. A passionate advocate for new music, she is the principal harpist of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, has given numerous world premiere performances and has performed in SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) conferences (2012 and 2007). Julia has been commissioned to write several harp ensemble pieces which have been performed across the country. She is a founding member and arranger for the harp quartet HarpCore 4, a group that performs popular music (mostly from the 80’s), and she has arranged many popular and jazz pieces for solo harp. As a professional harpist, she won First Prize in the 2002 American String Teachers Association (ASTA) National Biennial Solo Competition. Julia was the winner of the University of Illinois School of Music Concerto Competition Finals in 2008 and has been a soloist with the Danville Symphony Orchestra (2009) and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra (2010). From 2006 to 2011 Julia served as president of the Roslyn Rench Central Illinois Chapter of the American Harp Society and is currently serving on the AHS board of directors. She studied with Jocelyn Chang in Cleveland, Susann McDonald at Indiana University (BM), and Ann Yeung at UIUC (MM) where Julia served as teaching assistant. During her tenure as teaching assistant, she was awarded the highest teaching honor at The University of Illinois: the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2009). Julia’s interest in harp pedagogy has led to her writing teaching materials, giving several workshops and masterclasses for harpists and composers, and writing articles for the American Harp Journal’s “Teachers Corner”. Julia has been featured as a clinician, composer, and concert artist for events such as the Illinois Summer Harp Class in Urbana-Champaign and the University of Oregon Harp Day in Eugene.
http://juliakayjamieson.com/

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

We have a wonderful Pilates instructor, Patricia Blanchard, this year. She will be doing three sessions in which she will show us some great exercises that can be done sitting or standing up, with handouts so that we can remember them. She came to my harp studio to see how the harp is played, took some pictures, and will design the exercises specifically to benefit harpists. Looking forward to this!

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

The faculty recital programme will be comprised of music written or arranged by harpist/composers. July 4, 7:00 p.m. Pyatt Hall, VSO School of Music. Tickets $20/15 at door or ordered in advance through cishi.info@gmail.com.
Elizabeth Volpé Bligh: The Damselfly, The Downstairs Spider, and Seasons in Vancouver.
Judy Loman: Salzedo – Ballade
Julia Kay Jamieson: Oblivion (her own), Oblivion (Piazzolla), and Oblivion (Macy Gray)
Gianetta Baril: Tournier – Féerie
faculty quartet: Julia Kay Jamieson – Solar Power, and Take Five (Paul Desmond)

[Elizabeth Volpé Bligh]

In 2014, I will not be doing CISHI, since the VSO has expanded its summer season and will include an orchestral training course at Whistler in mid-July, 2015. CISHI will be re-located to God’s Mountain Estate in the Okanagan area of BC. For more details, consult the web site http://www.cishi.ca. Details about the VSO summer camp will be posted in the fall on http://www.vancouversymphony.ca or on my web site http://www.elizabethvolpebligh.com.

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