Feb 27, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composer, Composing, Harness Your Muse, Harping & Harpists, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
Are you DONE? What does DONE even mean??? After decades of creating and performing my own music, my definition of ‘done’ means ‘in sharable form.’ My whole life I’ve been a composing-perfomer and ’til now, “Done” meant...
Feb 22, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Random Thoughts, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
Every week (or so) when I send out to the people on my email list, I begin each email with “Dear Creative Adventurer,” and that started a couple years ago. So … what is creative adventure – and why do I address you as a “Creative Adventurer’? I...
Feb 12, 2018 | Love Stories (Wired for Love), Mom |
NOTE: This story includes an audio file related to the story – if you want to listen while you’re reading, here’s the song: My parents were divorced when I was very young and my mother and I went to live with my Aunt. Aftrer a year or so the three of...
Feb 11, 2018 | Love Stories (Wired for Love) |
This is a story I wrote out in 1996 when my local NPR station challenged listeners to write in about their first kiss. This was mine — read on the air Feb. 14, 1996. I lived in North Carolina. He lived in California. When I met him, I was visiting my...
Jan 24, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
What you get when you join Hip Harp Academy More than 10 courses to develop your improv, arrangement and performance skills. Learn from Grammy-nominated master harpist and teacher Deborah Henson-Conant in guided lessons and live online play-along Q&A sessions....
Jan 22, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Uncategorized
Are some people just BORN creative? “Creative” is the word I hear most when people describe me — but I didn’t really know how I got creative until I started teaching creativity to harp players in my online Hip Harp Academy. That’s when ...
Jan 18, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
Years ago I heard about a master-teacher named Tony Montanaro. He was a legendary performer and coach. People called him a creative GURU. I wanted so badly to work with him. I knew he would take my performance to a whole new level. But I was scared. So I kept putting...
Jan 17, 2018 | Online Courses, Uncategorized, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion
INSTANT FREE TRAINING! HipHarpAcademy.com Presents Deborah Henson-Conant’s “Inside the Creativity Gym” Enjoy this FREE INSTANT CREATIVE TRAINING where you’ll start the new year with a peek into the “Strings of Passion” Creativity Gym....
Jan 11, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
JOIN ME FOR “Strings of Passion” Creativity Experiment #1! Here’s How: Watch this short video, try the experiment … then – if you play the HARP – join me in “Strings of Passion,” the first class of 2018 in my “Hip Harp Academy” for 10 glorious...
Jan 8, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Hip Harp Academy
Whew! I escaped Boston just a few hours before the Bomb Cyclone hit – and I just got back from the NYC Chamber Music America conference which was all about the Jazz-Classical connection – which is at the heart of my own concerts, compositions and...
