Hi everyone, It’s been quite awhile since I last posted – lets catch up on some Harp Tuesday episodes, shall we? I did an episode a week in September, starting with a three part look at some of my favourite etudes: And finishing with a look at “Two Bagpipe Tunes” from Mildred Dilling’s “Old Tunes […]
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A two part’er! I take a look at transcribing the Andante from Beethoven’s Sonata No. 23 (Appassionata), talk about marking pedals, enharmonics, and how I eventually ended up changing 3 pedals at the same time!
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Episode 60 is up – double harmonics and tremolos. I’m planning on doing a Harp Tuesday episode every week this month, so keep checking back, or subscribe to my channel to be updated when the next episode is uploaded!
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New episode of Harp Tuesday is up!
Harp Tuesday episode 59 – Dynamics and control! Read More »
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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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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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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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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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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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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