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 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...
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...