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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(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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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
Hi all! It’s been awhile since I wrote – I’m now back home in Victoria after three amazing months in Europe. I’ve just uploaded a video of my performance of the Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez – Joaquin Rodrigo’s beautiful guitar concerto. I think almost anyone who hears it falls in love with the melody
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I wrote this from Enfield (near London), getting ready for my concert that happened this Wednesday. I had a full day’s trip to get to the UK and I just posted a short video with impressions of the journey! The trip involved an early start to catch a train near Cologne and take it to
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I’m in the Bodensee area of Bavaria again. At this time last year I was teaching a weekend workshop organized by Lena Rummel and performing a (live-streamed) duet concert with her. This year, along with Kristine Warmhold, we’re getting ready for the 2nd of three “Connected Continents” weekend workshops. Friday and Saturday, October 4th and
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Episode 3 of this season of Harpist in the Wild features guest star Lena Rummel for a duet version of Yiruma’s River Flows in You. Lena and I played this last year as part of a duo concert on two pedal harps, and then filmed this version on small harps next to a stream. Lena
River Flows in You, Hannover event on Sunday, and more
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This season has been a long time coming – this first episode was filmed almost exactly 1 year ago (September 2, 2023). The theme of this season is duets – all the episodes EXCEPT this first one feature another musician joining me for some Harpist in the Wild adventures, filmed during my time in Europe
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