This San Francisco Harpist’s unique sound reflects her unusual upbringing – born in Ireland, she has lived in Washington D.C., Belgium, and the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before making her permanent home in Berkeley, California.
He is a concert pianist who trained at the USC School of Music, the Aspen Music School, and the Peabody Conservatory. He has won first-prize awards from the International Piano Recording Competition and the Carmel Music Society, as well as multiple awards from the Musical Merit Foundation of San Diego. His performance in Carmel of Stravinsky’s “Three Movements From Petrouchka” was featured on National Public Radio’s syndicated Performance Today program.
This singer ability to sing, play instruments, and write music are all no doubt inherited family traits as she, the eldest of four children, hails from a long line of singers, songwriters and incredibly talented musicians. Some say she started singing as soon as she could talk.?ǣMy father is a Jazz musician and plays multiple instruments. My grandfather on my father?
He is a fun and energetic singing piano player from Los Angeles that offers both background Instrumental piano (Jazz standards, pop songs, movie themes, show tunes, and soft rock) to keep the conversation moving and/or a full one man piano band (drums, bass, piano, and vocal) for dancing and full crowd participation sing-a-long (if desired).
This Harpist is a native of Normal, Illinois . He earned a Doctor of Arts degree in Harp Performance and Music Education from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana and a Master of Music degree in Harp from the University of Michigan. He also received a Bachelor of Music in Harp from Illinois Wesleyan University and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, national music honorary society. Currently, he is a freelance harpist in Hollywood, CA and serves Los Angeles County and surrounding areas.
After winning the All-Ireland Harp Championship in 1984, toured the U.S. twice, then settled down in Los Angeles to perform, record and publish her own harp compositions.She has performed at weddings and celebrations in most of the major hotels and museums in the Los Angeles area, including the Biltmore, The Bonaventure, the Ritz-Carlton, the Beverly Hills Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air, Shutters, the Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Huntington Library and Gardens.