FindaHarpist
Classical / Popular
Surrey Wedding Harpist - ID526
Styles Classical / Popular • Celtic • Harp and Voice
Counties Berkshire • Buckinghamshire • East Sussex • Essex • Greater London • Hampshire • Hertfordshire • Kent • Surrey • West Sussex
Biography
This popular award winning Surrey wedding harpist has travelled the world performing and teaching the harp. She received her training from tutors at The Royal College, Royal Academy and The Guildhall and graduated with a music degree from the University of Surrey specialising in harp performance. She is now considered to be one of the fore most harpists of her generation.
She can be booked with a singer if required.
During her university and former years she won a variety of performance awards as well as scholarships to attend European summer schools. She was awarded the prestigious University Crosier-Hughes performance award two years in succession.
She enjoys a varied free-lance career playing for weddings, civil partnerships corporate events, recitals and orchestral work.
She prides herself in delivering a high standard of performance, with impeccable presentation, whilst maintaining a reliable and friendly approach. She proudly plays a Salvi Arianna concert harp which is considered to be a distinguished harp of exotic beauty, visually and audibly, skilfully crafted from a collection of rare woods from around the world.
She is regularly invited to perform for dignitaries including HM The Queen, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, The Lord Chancellor and various Heads of State including playing for private functions held at The Savoy, Claridges, Victoria and Albert museum and many other hotels/venues in London and the South East. She was also the resident harpist at Warwick castle for three years and Penny Hill park country club.
She is frequently the featured classical artiste on the International Majestic Page and Moy cruise ships travelling all over the world. She has performed with some of UK's leading orchestras including the London Sinfonietta, London Academic orchestra, Central Festival orchestra, East of England orchestra (Sinfonia Viva), Opera North and Bournemouth Symphony orchestra players.
An experienced recitalist and orchestral player she regularly performs for music societies, music festivals and at many of the UK's principal concert halls, including St Johns Smith square, The Barbican, Banqueting House in Whitehall, The Queen Elizabeth hall and the Edinburgh festival as a solo recitalist and as part of a duo with Soprano Sarah-Jane Dale and Flautist Nicholas Cartlidge . Her concert work has taken her to the USA, Portugal, France, Russia, Poland, Scandinavia and Belgium. This has also included many television and radio interviews and broadcasts. These broadcasts have included features on BBC radio stations , ITV 1, Florida and Southern French radio stations, "Look East" news when attempting a world record to perform a hundred concerts in a week with soprano Sarah-Jane Dale to raise money for the Tadworth children's trust, Children's BBC with two talented pupils and NBC TV in America.
She has recently been featured in "The Classical Music Magazine" regarding her harp and soprano work. She has released two harp and Soprano CD's: "A Million Pearls" and "The Nightingale". Also a solo CD called "The Swan". Her latest solo album is to be released shortly called "The Circle of Light", recorded for holistic and relaxation purposes.
As well as performing she is a popular tutor who enjoys working with children and adults passing on her love of the harp. She is a popular adjudicator for festival because of her natural rapport with people and her positive approach. She is the founder and director of the International harp ensemble which currently has thirty members. They have recently performed at the Barbican, The Royal Albert Hall and venues throughout the South East and the Midlands. She has also led them on many successful concert tours to Belgium, South of France and Portugal and Wales They were featured on "The songs of Praise" in February 2007. She also has many private pupils and is now harp tutor at The Royal Holloway University, St George's chapel - Windsor castle school, St George's Ascot, and Wellington
SAMPLE REPERTOIRE
Popular/Jazz/Film
Music from Lord of the Rings
Music from Harry Potter
Star Wars theme
Whitney Huston hits
Robbie Williams hits
Judy Garland hits
Van Morrison hits
Beatles hits
Cole Porter hits
The Fields Of Gold
Hello
Three Times A Lady
My Own True Love
Cavatina From The Deer Hunter
Theme From Titanic
Norah Jones hits
Nat King Cole hits
Eva Cassidy hits
Frank Sinatra hits
The Wind Beneath My Wings
Ever Green
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Embraceable You
Somewhere
Yesterday
Autumn Leaves
Send In The Clowns
Memory
My Funny Valentine
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
All I Ask Of You
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
The Music Of The Night
Pie Jesu
Love Is Here To Stay
Someone To Watch Over Me
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Unchained Melody
Some Enchanted Evening
Misty
There’s A Place For Us
‘S Wonderful
Edelweiss
You’ll Never Walk Alone
From This Moment On
The Prayer
Sound Of Music
Where Is Your Heart
A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square
We’ll Gather Lilacs
Musicals
The Phantom of the Opera
Evita
Les Miserables
Aspects of Love
Cats
Sunset Boulevarde
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Celtic/Traditional
The Lark in the Clear Air
The Foggy Dew
Down by the Salley Gardens
‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer
Danny Boy
Afton Water
Ye Banks and Braes
Greensleeves
All Through the Night
The Ash Grove
My Garten Mothers Lullaby
A selection of music by O’Carolan
The Castle of Dromore
Bendemeer’s Stream
Scarborough Fair
Merch Megan
Watching the Wheat
O’Carolans Dream
The rose of Tralee
My Lagen Love
She Moved Through the Fair
The Kerry Dance
The Spinning Wheel
The Nightingale
Classical
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring- J.S Bach
On Wings of Song- Mendelssohn
Chaconne- Clarke
Canon- Pachelbel
Pavane- Faure
Clair de Lune- Debussy
Meditation- Massenet
The Swan – Saint saens
La Source- Hasslemans
Rhapsody - Paggini
Hornpipe- Purcell
A selection of Sonatinas- Dussek
Ave Maria- Schubert
Premier prelude- Bach
Air on a G string- Bach
Bridal march from Lohengrin- Wagner
Trumpet Voluntary- Purcell
Trumpet Tune- Purcell
Ground in F with Variation- Purcell
Oh mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
Nocturne- Chopin
Etude Op.10- Chopin
Theme and Variations- J. Thomas
Love Unspoken – Lehar
Barcarolle - Offenbach
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