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Robin’s diverse talents led her to train as both a classical harpist and art historian. Her repertory spans a wide spectrum of music from medieval to modern but her passion is to find examples of early and traditional music not previously recorded and/or transcribed for harp and to rewrite them in a style accessible to the modern harpist. She has published five books of harp music containing examples of Renaissance music and three fully devoted to this genre. Equally, her debut recording, Mediterranean Journey, took extremely short melodies of Sephardic music and improvisationally expanded upon these themes in a uniquely sonorous way.As adjunct professor of art history at Arcadia University Robin keeps a full schedule both teaching and introducing students to cultural sites on field trips to Paris.
Robin’s diverse talents led her to train as both a classical harpist and art historian. Her repertory spans a wide spectrum of music from medieval to modern but her passion is to find examples of early and traditional music not previously recorded and/or transcribed for harp and to rewrite them in a style accessible to the modern harpist. She has published five books of harp music containing examples of Renaissance music and three fully devoted to this genre. Equally, her debut recording, Mediterranean Journey, took extremely short melodies of Sephardic music and improvisationally expanded upon these themes in a uniquely sonorous way.
As adjunct professor of art history at Arcadia University Robin keeps a full schedule both teaching and introducing students to cultural sites on field trips to Paris.
Deborah Govenor has a degree in music education from The Ohio State University and a Masters in Theological Studies from Trinity Lutheran Seminary. She has worked as a church organist and choir director, and as a private piano teacher. Deborah is employed by Beckenhorst Press, Inc. as Executive Secretary and organ Editor, and resides in Bar Harbor, Maine, with her husband, Paul Bartels, and their four dogs and four cats.
When we first played through these compositions we were immediately taken with them; they have much depth and direction. They are intermediate and require a full range fully levered harp or a pedal harp. Some pieces are accidental free, while others have some lever changes and some special effects such as harmonics and PDLT. Titles are: Celtic Winter, Eventide, El Bolero, Nocturne, La Danse, and Canzonetta. Please listen to the samples to hear for yourself.
Stan Guy is a native Texan who began study of piano and organ at an early age and discovered the harp as an adult. He studied harp with Nell O'Connell Dipellas in Dallas for several years. Stan's particular interest is in adapting and arranging modern standards and light classics to the lever harp. Stan is a businessman in Dallas, TX.
Rita performs locally throughout the Hampton Roads area, including the Williamsburg Scottish Games and the George Tucker House in historic Williamsburg. She has won numerous Scottish harp competitons, is a recipient of the Council Of Scottish Clans of America (COSCA) Ethel MacNeal scholarship, the Scot of the Year award from the St. Andrew’s Society of Williamsburg, and the Clan Douglas award. She is the competition chair for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, and is the first competing recipient of the Jan Pennington Gray award for harp. She is now on the Board of the Jan Pennington Gray Foundation
Danielle Harmon has a BM and MM in performance, both from the University of North Texas. In 2009 she was one of the winners in the UNT Concerto Competition with Ravel's Introduction et allegro. Danielle has studied with Becky Baxter-Robbins, Ellen Ritscher-Sackett, Gaye LeBlanc, and Dr. Jaymee Haefner. As for her compositions, she is inspired by movie soundtracks and Celtic music.
Steve Hill has been a life-long musician, having played and studied guitar since age 12. His formal musical training consists of classical guitar study at Santa Monica College, followed by independent studies with guitar master Ted Greene.In 2001, Mr. Hill was appointed Musician in Residence at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, where he both teaches and performs. He was exposed to the harp at the hospital and immediately began studying. Subsequently, he began performing on lever harp as well as assisting in teaching harp through the hospital’s Healing Harps program.Writing harp arrangements was a natural outgrowth of his new-found interest in harp. He excels at arranging classical music in an easy-to-play format for beginning to intermediate students. These selections reflect Mr. Hill’s love of that period of music, especially beautiful when played on the harp.
Steve Hill has been a life-long musician, having played and studied guitar since age 12. His formal musical training consists of classical guitar study at Santa Monica College, followed by independent studies with guitar master Ted Greene.
In 2001, Mr. Hill was appointed Musician in Residence at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, where he both teaches and performs. He was exposed to the harp at the hospital and immediately began studying. Subsequently, he began performing on lever harp as well as assisting in teaching harp through the hospital’s Healing Harps program.
Writing harp arrangements was a natural outgrowth of his new-found interest in harp. He excels at arranging classical music in an easy-to-play format for beginning to intermediate students. These selections reflect Mr. Hill’s love of that period of music, especially beautiful when played on the harp.
John Hines worked at Melody's Traditional Music in the early 90's. He is a jack of all trades, and very good with whistle and early music. He became enamored with early wire harp music, and wrote this book with the assistance of manuscripts provided by Becky Baxter and software provided by Melody's. This book has been sold the world over, and experts in the field say it is excellent.
Therese Honey presents solo concerts of Medieval and Renaissance music on historical harps, as well as traditional Celtic harp music. Ms. Honey tours throughout the US as a clinician and adjudicator. She has an active teaching studio in the Houston area, is a registered Suzuki harp teacher and is the co-director of the annual Houston Baptist University Summer Harp Festival. She teaches workshops on Medieval, Renaissance and Celtic repertoire, arranging and style, and harp ensemble, as well as harp purchase and maintenance, technique and posture, and performance attitude and preparation. She is a dynamic teacher who inspires and motivates her students to learn more about the harp, its technique, repertoire and history.
Nancy Hurrell is a harpist who enjoys playing a wide variety of music. Playing classical to jazz for events, Nancy is also known for her performances of Irish and Scottish music, and for early music. She was harpist for Tea at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston for five years. Nancy has presented concerts at numerous festivals including: Boston Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, HarpCon, Somerset Harp Festival, and ICONS (Irish Connections). She performs and records with the early music groups Renaissonics and Musicians of the Old Post Road. Nancy has several CD’s, and her books of harp arrangements are used by players around the world.Nancy is a harp consultant for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, giving lecture/demonstrations and recording soundfiles on harps in the collection. She shares her interest in historical harps through published articles, and she presents workshops to groups across the US and Canada. Nancy performs on a variety of historical harps, including the bray harp, the Italian arpa doppia (double row) and the Spanish arpa de dos ordenes (cross-strung).
Patricia Jaeger is a past president of the Greater Seattle Chapter of the American Harp Society. She owns and operates Herald Music, producing her own harp and ensemble arrangements. Originally from Swarthmore, PA, she began her study of music with violin before the age of four and went on to earn her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin and music literature from the Eastman School of Music. She also studied for a year in Germany, presenting two concerts, and then relocated to Seattle to study harp with the late Edith Lundgren for nine years. Mrs. Jaeger's past teaching credits include teaching beginning harp in the Seattle School District, as well as night courses for the public for sixteen years. She now teaches privately at two Seattle colleges and free-lances in the area for weddings, corporate events and special occasions.
Anna Thormahlen Jenkins discovered the lever harp in 2001, after years of leading choral groups, bell choirs, Christmas pageants, and teaching elementary and high school music in the public schools. As a Certified Music Practitioner (MHTP), Anna currently provides harp music in nursing care settings. She also plays for weddings and other events, and teaches private harp lessons to children and adults. She is one of three arranger-conductors of the Seattle Harp Orchestra, formed in 2010. Anna has arranged many pieces for three and four harps for the Eastside Harp Circle, a group she co-founded in 2005. Some of her holiday arrangements have been published in the Folk Harp Journal. She has also composed two works with Sharon Thormahlen: Prelude for Peace and The Birds of Blue Ridge. The latter Anna also arranged for mixed ensemble. In July 2012, Anna and Sharon completed Cabin Fever for Two, a book of harp duets they arranged together. Current projects include arranging ensemble music for Just Us Band in Seattle, a folk/oldtime music band she is part of, as well as Instruments of Peace, a harp and guitar duo in which she plays and sings in worship settings with her husband, Don Jenkins.www.peaceharp.comFacebook - Just Us Band in Seattlewww.instruments-of-peace.com
Anna Thormahlen Jenkins discovered the lever harp in 2001, after years of leading choral groups, bell choirs, Christmas pageants, and teaching elementary and high school music in the public schools. As a Certified Music Practitioner (MHTP), Anna currently provides harp music in nursing care settings. She also plays for weddings and other events, and teaches private harp lessons to children and adults. She is one of three arranger-conductors of the Seattle Harp Orchestra, formed in 2010. Anna has arranged many pieces for three and four harps for the Eastside Harp Circle, a group she co-founded in 2005. Some of her holiday arrangements have been published in the Folk Harp Journal. She has also composed two works with Sharon Thormahlen: Prelude for Peace and The Birds of Blue Ridge. The latter Anna also arranged for mixed ensemble. In July 2012, Anna and Sharon completed Cabin Fever for Two, a book of harp duets they arranged together. Current projects include arranging ensemble music for Just Us Band in Seattle, a folk/oldtime music band she is part of, as well as Instruments of Peace, a harp and guitar duo in which she plays and sings in worship settings with her husband, Don Jenkins.
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Jan Jennings is a past first prize winner of the Lyon & Healy International Pop & Jazz Harp competition. She is a widely respected performer and teacher of both classical and popular music. Her students have been finalists in the national competition of the American Harp Society as well as prize winners in local and national music competitions. She is in demand as a clinician and guest artist at harp seminars around the country. She has written two instructional books, The Harpist’s Complete Wedding Guidebook, and Effortless Glissing. Miss Jennings is the Music Review Editor for Harp Column, a national harp magazine. She has made five recordings, and several of her arrangements for both pedal and lever harp have been published. Jan served two terms as Director-at-Large for the American Harp Society, and two terms as Treasurer. She founded the Central Florida Chapter of the American Harp Society in 1987. She currently serves on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the World Harp Congress. Currently a free-lance harpist based in Orlando, she has been the featured artist at prestigious venues in both the U.S. and Europe.
Julianne Johnson Sommers has thirty years of teaching experience in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas as a public school music teacher and private lesson teacher. She has a masters degree in vocal music from NLU. While living in Houston, she was a member of the Gulf Coast Harpers. She now teaches public school music in Arkansas.
“I knew by age 5 that I wanted to play music. I have a B.Mus.Ed. in Music Education and Clarinet Performance from Heidelberg College. I took up the harp almost by accident, long after college, and it quickly took over my life.My first harp teacher was Roxanne Ziegler, in Rochester, New York. I give her so much credit for teaching me the right way, taking me seriously as an adult beginner, and spending about three years with me before she suggested I move on to Grace Wong (Rochester Philharmonic) for some serious pedal harp training. All together, I studied harp seriously for five years, with my two wonderful teachers, all the while practicing three hours or more a day. I happened to be in a position where I had the time….so I took advantage of that opportunity. I began teaching harp in 2002 when I moved to Colorado. Within days of being written up in the local newspaper, I began getting calls about harps and harp lessons. My students, then and now, were predominantly adult women, both with and without musical backgrounds, who were drawn to playing the harp just as I was.”Afghan Press publishes one book by Cindy, Serenity. For Cindy’s many other books, please visit her web site at www.CindyKleinstuber.com
“I knew by age 5 that I wanted to play music. I have a B.Mus.Ed. in Music Education and Clarinet Performance from Heidelberg College. I took up the harp almost by accident, long after college, and it quickly took over my life.My first harp teacher was Roxanne Ziegler, in Rochester, New York. I give her so much credit for teaching me the right way, taking me seriously as an adult beginner, and spending about three years with me before she suggested I move on to Grace Wong (Rochester Philharmonic) for some serious pedal harp training. All together, I studied harp seriously for five years, with my two wonderful teachers, all the while practicing three hours or more a day. I happened to be in a position where I had the time….so I took advantage of that opportunity. I began teaching harp in 2002 when I moved to Colorado. Within days of being written up in the local newspaper, I began getting calls about harps and harp lessons. My students, then and now, were predominantly adult women, both with and without musical backgrounds, who were drawn to playing the harp just as I was.”
Afghan Press publishes one book by Cindy, Serenity. For Cindy’s many other books, please visit her web site at www.CindyKleinstuber.com
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