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There are several instructors teaching who have Grandjany training. Kathleen Bride (Eastman School of Music) and Marcella DeCray (San Francisco Conservatory) both studied with Grandjany, and Susann McDonald (Indiana University) studied with Henriette Renie, Grandjany’s teacher, and later succeeded him as harp instructor at the Juilliard school. Nancy Allen, who currently teaches at Juilliard and Yale, also studied with Grandjany. These are only a FEW of the professors who are trained in the French technique, and they are all wonderful harpists.
Nadia Pessoa
Hi Theresa,
Well, I’m a bit biased, but I highly recommend University of Maryland. Rebecca Anstine Smith is the teacher there, and Alice Chalifoux gives monthly lessons to all harp students.Hello! I too am trying to play the lever harp and would like to hear from all of you.
The harp is not a common instrument particularly over here in Malaysia.Hi! I started playing the harp this year.It has been a lifetime dream of mine and I finally was able to afford the expense. I absolutely love it! I was glad to see that other adults are doing the same. I’m 40 and have 4 kids, homeschool and work part-time as a nurse so I can never practise as much as I would like but…I can finally say I play the harp!!!! YEAH! It would be great to talk to others who share this same interest.
Ruth:
If there is a school you really want to go to and a good harp teacher nearby, you might ask the school if they’d be willing to start a harp program just for you. I was asked to teach an incoming student at Imaculata College, in Pennsylvania, this fall. They didn’t have a harp program in place, but the school went out of their way to find her a teacher and they are even renting a harp just for her. Don’t rule out a school just because they don’t currently have a program. You may be able to start something.
I too, started many years ago, with the Betty Paret Book, and then used the Mildred Dilling. The Betty Paret book is very important for learning teachnique and fingering applications.
It seems that some teachers are more into their students playing “big” pieces, rather than building a solid foundation with proper technique and placement.
Mona Peck
Hi,
I am 60 years old, and learning to play a lever harp. I also too would like someone to correspond with about harps. If you would like to write, you may email me at Rebecca_Haddock@excite.comBecki
In my Youth Symphony I played Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. There wern’t a lot of harp parts in it, but what was there was fun (and challenging) to play.
Hey Ruth! I think Pensacola Christian College has a harp program, but Im not sure. Pensacola is in North Florida. Well, if you find another christian college that has a harp program, let me know.
For a nice selection of what is generally intermediate level harp music, you might send for a catalog of arrangements done by Daniel Burton through Jubal Press, Box 144, La Mesa, CA 91944.
