Sep 1, 2014 | Baroque Flamenco, Composer's Spotlight, Harping & Harpists, Harps, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series |
This is a tiny story told through a series of Facebook chats. It started with a Christmas present and ended with a radio interview and an impassioned performance. I especially love the conclusion because it involves my composition “Baroque Flamenco.” This...
Aug 21, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
What happens when you let go? Is it exhilaration … or a sense of loss? As a performer, I feel most alive when I really let go on stage. I’m more there when I perform than in normal life. But as a composer, letting go is completely different. It means I’m...
Aug 20, 2014 | Baroque Flamenco, Composer's Spotlight, Composing, Guest Blogger, Harping & Harpists, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series, Performance |
Harp soloist Eleanor Turner debuted my new concerto version of “Baroque Flamenco” with full symphony in New Orleans (June 2014 )- and with 8-piece chamber ensemble in Sydney, Australia (July 2014) . In both concerts, I conducted the ensemble – a...
Aug 1, 2014 | Performance |
Just before I left for Sydney, Australia two weeks ago, I got an email from Sabine Meijers & Brenda Dor-Groot of the JazzHarpFoundation about a phrase they saw in my tour schedule: ‘I’ll be weilding my 32-string electric body harp in an early evening...
Jul 31, 2014 | Performance |
“Classical Gas” was a huge hit when I was a kid and it was a BIG DEAL because it was one of the rare instrumental hits of all time. It was one of the things that put a seed in my head: a classical instrument doesn’t have to be classical. And that seed has blossomed...
Jul 16, 2014 | Composing, Harping & Harpists, Performance |
This is the video from the June 25, 2014 performance in New Orleans of my 3-Movement harp concerto “Soñando en Español” with harp soloist Eleanor Turner and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, AND, with special guest conductor Deborah Henson-Conant...
Jul 8, 2014 | Performance |
I have never heard a conductor called “adorable” and I, myself, have rarely been called adorable – but that’s what I kept hearing after I conducted my original concerto “Soñando en Español” a little over a week ago in New Orleans with members of the Louisiana...
Jul 2, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity |
This weekend, Darth Vader, Doctor Who & James Bond walk down the aisle together in harpist Shelley Fairplay’s new concert-show “The Three Strands,” on the Great Glasshouse Stage at the National Botanical Garden of Wales. It’s the official premier of Shelley’s new...
Jun 27, 2014 | Harping & Harpists, Performance |
I had my orchestral conducting debut two days ago in New Orleans with members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Gala Concert of the American Harp Conference. This is the blog I meant to send that morning – only I got a little preoccupied – so...
Jun 19, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses |
Class has begun and it’s SOOOO much fun! Especially because I invented the school myself. For the next 10 weeks, I’ll be personally guiding a group of harpists from around the world through my personal method for learning to create spontaneous arrangements...
