February featured a brief snowfall (fairly rare in Victoria) plus signs of spring. Had a nice close encounter with an Anna’s Hummingbird (they tend to stay all year round). And wild rabbits! (More of them to come in the next couple of months).
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Photography has become a real passion of mine and I try to get out and take photos whenever I have a moment (I love photography, and I also love the fact that it gives me a compelling reason to get outside in nature). I’m going to start posting some of my favourite photos I take
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Join me in Chemainus and Victoria, BC, for a concert filled with stories! A time-traveling guitar in Deborah Henson-Conant’s Baroque Flamenco, a tragic tale of elves and a chevalier in Henriette Renié’s Légende, the evocative landscapes of Vivaldi’s Winter and Smetana’s The Moldau… these and more promise an unforgettable afternoon with the harp. This coming
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I’m looking back at my decision to typeset and publish my arrangement of the Andante from Bach’s Organ Sonata No. 4.
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(This was initial sent out to my newsletter subscribers – join to stay up to date with what I’m doing and get free sheet music!). It was a cold night in Hamburg and my hands were freezing… I thought I’d share the stories behind my two new music videos, starting with this performance of Bach’s
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The 8th and final episode of Harpist in the Wild, season 6: Duets, goes live at 8am PST on Saturday, March 1, 2025 – you’ll be able to watch it here. This episode is another harp and voice duet with Rafaela Schützner, featuring the haunting Irish song She Moved Through the Fair, recorded in the
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(This was originally sent out as a newsletter to my email subscribers – join my list to have this delivered right to your inbox!) I’m thrilled to announce the final two videos of Harpist in the Wild season 6: Duets! Season 6 has featured duets that I recorded during my 2023 European adventures. I posted
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How long did it take me to typeset and publish my harp arrangement of the Andante from Bach’s Organ Sonata No. 4? Let’s find out! As I mentioned in my last post, the piano transcription that I was working from is five pages long. I estimated that it might take me about 5 hours to
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I hope 2025 brings good things to you and yours! I welcomed in the new year (as I’ve been doing since 2016) with an improvisation. I hope you enjoy! And on New Year’s eve I wrote the first of a series of planned blog posts about “wearing a publisher’s hat” – various topics to do
These days, amongst other hats, I find myself wearing the hat of a music publisher (in a very small way). I had planned to do a bunch of blogging from this perspective in 2024, and yet here it is, December 31st already… Guess I better get on it! As a publisher, one of the decisions
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