Nov 20, 2025 | Composer, DHC Legacy Project |
Kyiv, Ukraine – Nov. 19, 2025 “It finally happened!!!! Ukraine heard your incredible piece!!!!” That’s the WhatsApp message I got two nights ago from Iryna Lytvynenko, the Ukranian Bandura virtuoso who adapted my concerto “Merceditas” for...
Jun 6, 2025 | Composer, Composing, DHC Legacy Project, Kindness |
Her email arrived on an ordinary Tuesday morning in September, but nothing about its contents was ordinary. “Dear Ms. Deborah Henson-Conant,” it began, in the careful English of someone writing in their second language. “My name is Iryna Lytvynenko...
Apr 17, 2025 | Composer, Composing, Concerts, Events, People I Meet, Performance, Performer, Performing, Tour Diaries, Travel |
From Paris to Wales From Paris, I’m heading to Wales which means a train under the Strait of Dover via the Eurotunnel – one of my favorite legs of the journey. But it means arriving in St. Pancras station and transferring to Paddington Station. Where...
Apr 10, 2025 | Composer, Composing, Concerts, Events, Hidden from Blog, People I Meet, Performance, Performer, Performing, Tour Diaries, Travel |
And I made it to Edinburgh!! The last leg of my Europe Tour is in Edinburgh. As one of the performers and presenters of the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, I’m so thrilled to have gone back to this beautiful hilly capital of Scotland. I took this selfie...
Apr 7, 2025 | Composer, Composing, Concerts, Events, People I Meet, Performance, Performer, Performing, Tour Diaries, Travel |
Private Paris Retreat … with the MIDI harp I got to Paris near midnight on Sunday night and made my way to the apartment where the MIDI harp was staying. Monday morning I met with Jakez and the Jean-Philippe to set the harp up with my computer – a replay...
Dec 30, 2024 | Collaboration, Composer, Harping & Harpists, Kindness, Projects |
BREAKING NEWS! Thanks to the Legacy Bridge Project and sponsor Dan Beach – “Baroque Flamenco” had its Ukranian Premiere — and its World Premiere on Bandura, a traditional Ukranian folk instrument. The soloist Iryna Lytvynenko adapted...
Sep 11, 2024 | Baroque Flamenco, Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Concerts, DHC Legacy Project, Events, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
Harpist Verena Jochum is both a musician and a storyteller. For the last year we’ve been working together to prepare the world premiere of the solo version of “Soñando en Español” — a 3-Movement suite for harp, which Verena will present this weekend. It’s not just...
Aug 25, 2024 | Composer, Composing, Events |
Nearly every Friday morning, around 9:15, I meet with a Jungian Psychoanalyst. No, no … it’s not what you think — she’s a harpist – and for years, we’ve been having this weekly conversation about music, philosophy, and the experience of transformation. In...
Aug 24, 2024 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composer, Composing, People I Meet |
Sunday mornings, whenever I can, I go for a long run, and then I sit at the Kickstand Cafe and eat Vietnamese spring rolls. Last Sunday, a woman at the next table, leaned over and asked “Are you Deborah?” When I said yes, she asked if I still play around...
Jan 23, 2024 | Bio, Composer, Creativity, Events, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Instrument (My Instrument), Interviews, Re-DHC
We are excited to announce that Deborah Henson-Conant will appear on the TV show “Chronicle” on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 at 7:30 PM EST on WCVB Channel 5. Watch along to get an in-depth understanding of her life as a performer, composer, and mentor....
