Apr 8, 2021 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Uncategorized |
Have you ever longed to express a romantic part of yourself, like the heroine in a book or a movie — but you just didn’t have what you needed? You didn’t have the skills, or the gear, or the time … or you just didn’t know where to start...
Apr 1, 2021 | Baroque Flamenco, Baroque Flamenco Performances By Others, Collaboration, Composer |
On March 20th Philharmonie Salzburg, harpist Evelyn Huber and conductor Elisabeth Fuchs created the first complete recording of my harp concerto “Soñando en Español” for release in 2022 – including all three movements: Mvt 1: “My Mother’s...
Mar 4, 2021 | Collaboration, Guest Blogger, Harping & Harpists |
This is a guest post by Kathleen Blackwell-Plank, who recently wrote this article for the Charlotte, NC Chapter of the American Harp Society, spotlighting chapter member Kathleen Wiley and her work with our “Jung at Harp” series. Thank you to...
Mar 2, 2021 | Baroque Flamenco, Baroque Flamenco Performances By Others, Composer, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series |
What an amazing moment. You’ve just played the performance of your life, the crowd goes crazy and golden confetti fills the air. A dream is coming true… We interrupt this post for an important message: Harpists! Take the Baroque Flamenco Challenge! If...
Feb 25, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, harp, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, Uncategorized |
Blueprints for Creativity a NEW immersion class series at Hip Harp Academy is OPEN for registration! What’s a Blueprint for Creativity? It’s a distilled version of a musical form, paring it down to the bones, so it’s easy-peasy to play when you start off. But that’s...
Feb 23, 2021 | Events, Interviews |
Recently, host Jay Michaels invited me to be a guest on his Podcast – “Opening the Harp Chakra.” Show Notes: Season 2 Episode 3 Opening the Harp Chakra – The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music …and talking with...
Feb 18, 2021 | Creativity, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
It’s no secret that I love structure. That might not be obvious if you saw my desk, my refrigerator, my closet or my computer filing system. But I’m not talking about ‘organization’ – I’m talking about internal structure. This, for example, is the structure or...
Feb 2, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, harp, Holidays, Love Stories (Wired for Love), Performance |
NEW CHALLENGE! 30 Days of Love Songs – Leading up to Valentine’s Day. I’m on a mission to learn about emotional vulnerability and one of my challenges is to get on Facebook Live every night for 30 days and sing love songs. One Project, TWO Playlists...
Dec 17, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy |
Welcome to the 2020 Hip Harp Academy Fall/Winter Video Projects! Check out the creativity and fun in all these video from harpists who just finished a class in arrangement and improv. Every one. ofthese players is committed to liberating themselves from the notes on...
Dec 15, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Holidays
Recently I admitted something to my students in Hip Harp Academy: that I’ve never really liked the tune Silent Night, but that you could learn to love a song by really exploring it, and I started bragging that if I wanted to, I could make a different version of...
