Aug 6, 2025 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
What happens when a grandmother’s love meets the creative freedom of Hip Harp Academy? Something truly magical. Last quarter, Academy member Lynne took on an ambitious project: writing an original song for her granddaughters, ages 5 and 7, who are just beginning...
Jul 20, 2025 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All) |
PART 1 – 2025 Q2 Hip Harp Academy Member SPOTLIGHT SERIES featuring: Cherrie Mooney, Lynne, Lynne Reardon, Cherie Maffey, Mona Seering, Ina Peebles, and Angela Smith Scoles. Part #1 | Part #2 | Part #3 Why “Final-Beginning” Projects? We call...
Jul 20, 2025 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All) |
PART 2 – 2025 Q2 Hip Harp Academy Member SPOTLIGHT SERIES featuring: Tara O’Brien Pride, Debby Couch, Elizabeth Owens, Midyne Spear, TB, Helen, and Sarah Loveland Gill. Part #1 | Part #2 | Part #3 Why “Final-Beginning” Projects? We call...
Jul 20, 2025 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All) |
PART 3 – 2025 Q2 Hip Harp Academy Member SPOTLIGHT SERIES featuring: CS, Joyce, Laure, Melinda Ostrander-Aviles, HV, and Betty Herloski. Part #1 | Part #2 | Part #3 Why “Final-Beginning” Projects? We call them “Final-Beginning”...
Jul 19, 2025 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
The third quarter of Hip Harp Academy has just begun with the Kickstart Week with 4-part online event series that concluded with a very special keynote recorded on July 27th. I want to share more about this very keynote with you. A Keynote from the ‘Harp’...
Jun 27, 2025 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Webinar Sign-Up Pages |
A FREE Play-along workshop with Deborah Henson-Conant(Recorded Sun. July 6, 2025 ~ 3:00 pm EDT) Register Now for INSTANT REPLAY ACCESS Experience the FREEDOM of playingwithout worrying about written notes. Do you long for FREEDOM in your playing? Do you panic when...
Jun 10, 2025 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
In a Hip Harp Academy chat last week, someone pointed out that the way I was teaching was like giving people LEGOS of music. “THANK YOU!” I said. “Now I finally know how to describe these ‘component’ and ‘snippet’ ideas I have!” I was...
Jun 6, 2025 | Composer, Composing, DHC Legacy Project, Kindness |
Her email arrived on an ordinary Tuesday morning in September, but nothing about its contents was ordinary. “Dear Ms. Deborah Henson-Conant,” it began, in the careful English of someone writing in their second language. “My name is Iryna Lytvynenko...
May 1, 2025 | Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy |
“Baroque Flamenco” is one of the most exciting pieces in the harp repertoire – but many harpists find it intimidating. And yet last week hundreds of harpists from around the world – of all abilities from fledgling to professional – ...
Apr 28, 2025 | Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy |
2025 HHA Q1 Creative Resonance Member Spotlight Part 3 ~ This post features the Final-Beginning Projects for this quarter of: Chari, Tara, Joke, Carol, Betty, Debra, and Midyne. See all the Academy Member Spotlight Series:Part #1 – Part #2 – Part #3...