Sep 1, 2019 | Composer, Composing |
Sylvia Woods asked me to write an article about my life and my composing for harp to accompany a sale she’s having on my sheet music downloads in her store. This is the original version of the article along with all the photos I offered her. Enjoy! When I was seven I...
Aug 13, 2019 | Concerts, Events |
BUY TIX NOW! Grammy-nominated electric harp legend Deborah Henson-Conant (“DHC”) brings her riveting performance style the Crosby Center in Belfast, ME on Saturday, August 24th at 7:30pm. Her shows combine music, humor, and stories with a range of musical styles that...
Jun 6, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
If you’re like me … some days you can see you’re hitting your mark – we call that ‘progress’ or ‘success.’ And some days you don’t. You feel like you’re slogging or stuck — or stuck slogging – and you’ve lost the thread of action. You don’t know...
Dec 27, 2018 | Events, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses, Performing, Projects |
As 2018 ends and 2019 begins, I wanted to take a moment to look back at some of the highlights – moments of new beginnings, musical friendships, adventures and projects. JANUARY – A TedX talk “From the Harp” The year began on the TEDx stage...
Dec 18, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects |
When I create a show, I almost always work with an visual artist who brings the show alive for me visually with original illustrations. But first I draw them myself. In this video I’m showing you the drawings I made for “The Golden Cage” and then how...
Dec 13, 2018 | Collaboration, Composer, Composing, Musical Theater, Projects, Uncategorized |
This is a ‘work-video’ of my musical “The Golden Cage” that I made for my development collaborator, Paul Gordon. It’s a 12-minute ‘short story’ version – or musical synopsis – of the 75-minute, 2-character show....
Sep 26, 2018 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
(Some of the info in the post was shared in earlier posts in 2011, 2016 & 2017) I get to hear my music played by harpists all over the world. But there’s one piece in particular that I really have to show people how to play. That’s my fiery...
Sep 11, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Collaboration, Composer, Harps, Performance |
A New Collaboration … How it came about & how you can be part of it Sometimes education and performance can come together in wonderful ways. When harp soloist and educator Robbin Gordon-Cartier and composer/performer Deborah Henson-Conant (“DHC”) decided to...
May 8, 2018 | Composer, Concerts, Events, Tour Diaries, Weekly Ezine |
From the April 7, 2018 weekly Ezine Do you wonder sometimes, like I do, about where your own creative voice fits? And sometimes whether it does at all? If so, I want to tell you that your voice – no matter what it sounds like – is part of the rich ensemble...
May 4, 2018 | Composer, Events, Harping & Harpists, Tour Diaries |
Last week I got back from Tacoma, WA where I had the joy of playing with the passionate (and sometimes unexpectedly comedic) musicians in Symphony Tacoma and their great new conductor conductor Sarah Ioannides – and to introduce the “Tacoma...
