Month: May 2013
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Passage from “Passage: music for solo harp”
The title of Passage: music for solo harp borrows its name from the first piece on the CD – Passage. Written in 2005, this was my first full length composition and the first time I really felt I could be a composer. I had of course messed around a little bit – the musical that…
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Rio Harp Festival – day 4
Thursday was my last day of performing, with a 2pm concert at the Justiça Federal Cultural Centre. Here’s a view from the van window on the way to the concert: Performing! (photo credits Tatiana Lima Castro) I have some video footage of the concert and will post that soon! After the concert festival organizer Sergio…
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Rio Harp Festival, day 3
Wednesday at 12:30 pm Russian harpist Sasha Boldachev was doing an extra concert – I thought I was going to miss all his performances, so was excited to learn that he’d been asked to perform again. My concert was later in the afternoon at the same location, the Biblioteca do Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil.…
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Rio Harp Festival, day 2 (part 2)
Hi everyone, Been having a great time here in Brazil and haven’t found time to post – lets try and catch up :) Was also hoping to track down some photos from Tuesday’s concert, but that will have to wait. So Tuesday evening was my first concert in Rio. I played at a theatre that…
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Rio harp festival, day 2 (part 1)
Tuesday morning harpist Isabella and harp technician Rodrigo picked me up and took me hiking up Morro da Urca, the smaller part of Sugarloaf Mountain. At Red Beach before the climb Straight up! (We took the path, however) Monkeys! Climbing Who needs cable cars! Quite a view…. Trusty companions! On the way down… Success! Coming…
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Rio Harp Festival – getting there + day 1
I’m performing at the 2013 Rio Harp Festival. My first time to South America; I’m going to be blogging about my experiences, starting with my loooong day of travel :) Here I am waiting at the airport in Victoria at 7:30 am on Sunday, May 12. From Victoria I flew to Calgary, from Calgary I…
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Buy Passage: music for solo harp!
You can buy my CD Passage: music for solo harp as a digital download for $8.99
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Passage: music for solo harp (Introduction)
Passage: music for solo harp has been a long time coming. I recorded my first 2 CDs in quick succession – A Harp Recital in 1996 and An Afternoon of Harp Music in 1997. Masterworks for Harp came a little bit later – 2001. And then it has been 12 years since I released a…