Jul 10, 2020 | Events, Performance, Projects |
THANK YOU for helping us share the “Invention & Alchemy” streaming World Premiere starring Deborah Henson-Conant – composer & soloistDavid Lockington – conductor & cellistThe Grand Rapids Symphony This is the Official Sharing...
Jul 8, 2020 | Composer, Concerts, Events, harp, Performance, Uncategorized |
Piece by piece, the stories of “Invention & Alchemy” STREAMING for the first time, for a limited time PREMIERE: July 10 at 7pm ET is the Streaming Premiere ENCORE: July 11th at 2PM ET – 7pm LONDON time Watch the trailer...
Jun 25, 2020 | Composer, Concerts, Events, Performer, Press Release |
=============== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Please run thru August 22, 2020=============== On Fri. July 10, 2020, Deborah Henson-Conant’s “Invention & Alchemy,” a full-length concert with The Grand Rapids Symphony, streamed worldwide for the first time –...
Jun 11, 2020 | Collaboration, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Instrument (My Instrument), Interviews
Is your dream taking FOREVER to come to fruition? Check out this TEDx story Click To Tweet Share this with your friends who love music, or stories – and especially stories with music. Share it with children to show them how ideas can come together and grow into...
Jun 11, 2020 | Holidays, I Remember... |
I love to share this photo every father’s day. It’s one of the only pictures I have of me and my Dad, and it’s on the day of his second wedding. Decades later, I would help my father sing at his own funeral. Let me give that some context: About 30...
Jun 10, 2020 | Events, Performance, Uncategorized |
My world changed in a single moment. I’m a composer and performer. I play the electric harp and I was a performing as a soloist at the “Picnic Pops” with the Grand Rapids Symphony in Michigan. After the show a man walked up to me and said, “What I saw out...
May 23, 2020 | Audience Feedback, Events, Performance |
It’s like getting to be INSIDE THE HEADS of the people watching. I get to hear what they’re actually thinking like … “CAT!!” … when my cat casually ambles into the concert in the middle of a tune. In the weeks since I started weekly Sunday Afternoon...
May 23, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Nightingale |
I’m working on a new kind of learning: taking ONE SONG and breaking it down, teaching it to people the way I actually SEE it: architectural blocks of harmony and shapes of melody. It’s an experiment I thought would take a couple weeks – but now it’s...
May 4, 2020 | I Remember..., Mom
Join electric harpist & vocalist Deborah Henson-Conant from her living room for a FACEBOOK LIVE CONCERT on Sunday May 10, 2020 at 4:30PM EDT. Sign up HERE to get reminders! [First posted May 14, 2017, updated May 11, 2019] This is a special Mother’s Day...
Apr 21, 2020 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses
Get the INSTANT REPLAY You’ll be instantly connected to the replay when you register Recorded Sun. Apr. 26 at 4:30pm EDT REGISTERING FOR THIS training includes membership in my mailing list. If you want to unsubscribe later, it’s easy. Though I think...
Apr 4, 2020 | Instrument (My Instrument), Performance, Uncategorized, Video |
Last week I expanded my online harp time to meet with students and the worldwide community four times more often than in the past – to include two weekly FREE “Harp Time LIVE” virtual play-alongs and a new class that goes deep, deep, deep into a...
Apr 3, 2020 | Collaboration, Creativity, Musical Theater, Projects |
In January we had the final reading of my musical “The Golden Cage”, videotaped it on two new iPhone 11’s … and then spent 6 weeks trying to figure out how to get the video off the !#@$$! phones. Finally, in desperation, I reached out to Eclipse Video in...
Apr 2, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy |
3 months ago, a harpist named Roselyn contacted me about lessons. Here in the U.S. from South Korea, she’s been studying classical harp at Eastman School of Music, but wants to forge her own path, and she wants to do it with the “DHC Harp.” If you don’t know what the...
Mar 19, 2020 | Instrument (My Instrument), Performance, Uncategorized, Video |
I made this video based on a game I used to play with my family where we’d challenge each other to make music with random objects. It can be ANYTHING really … even a bag of gum … The fact is … I play pretty much EVERYTHING in my house when I’m not...
Mar 12, 2020 | Baroque Flamenco Performances By Others, Composing, Harping & Harpists, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series |
This is a blog series featuring performances of my harp showpiece “Baroque Flamenco” by other musicians. Click HERE to link to the overview blog Baroque Flamenco Around the World. Featured Performers: Robbin Gordon-Cartier and her students from Cicely L. Tyson School...
Mar 12, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Current Events |
Crisis creates connection. It’s true. When I was a kid I was in a major earthquake. Folks who’d lived through World War II thought we were being bombed – that’s what it was like. I’ll never forget how open people were the day or two...
Mar 10, 2020 | Celtic Memories |
Pinching!! That’s what I remember about St. Patrick’s Day as a kid. But living under the O’Leary’s completely changed my take on the American Irish experience. I moved to Boston in my early 20’s from California, and after a few roommate...
Feb 25, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Interviews |
This is Conversation #9 of the “Jung at Harp” series with Jungian Analyst Kathleen Wiley and me, Deborah Henson-Conant. In this video we are exploring AUTHENTICITY & WHOLENESS. This series explores Jungian analysis through the lens of the principles in...
Feb 11, 2020 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Love Stories (Wired for Love)
A FREE TRAINING for Harpists fromDeborah Henson-ConantAbout how to create a Musical Message of Lovewith your own two hands … and a harp How to Create Musical Greeting Cards It’s easy to create a personalized Video-Greeting Card that combines your spoken...
Feb 10, 2020 | Love Stories (Wired for Love)
Every year around Valentine’s Day I like to look back at all the love stories past. So I decided to make this composite blog so I can find them and share them more easily! It’s a whole lot of romance all on one page. Enjoy! NEW in 2020 – “20...
