Harp Festival @ Wesley Music Centres

Saturday April 27
1:30pm -9:30pm
Wesley Music Centre, National Cct Forrest

buy tickets!

The Harp Festival opens the doors to the Harp Centre activities, and includes performances by Harp Centre students, special “Meet the Harp” workshops, and solo performances from Alice Giles. “Engaging with the community in this way allows us to share the many wonderful aspects of  the harp”, says Alice Giles, founding director. “During the Festival, audiences can listen, learn and experience the harp first-hand through performances, workshops and lectures. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to share our passion for the harp with new audiences”.

The Festival opens with the Student Concert at 2pm, with performances by local harp students, and is a great opportunity to support our local talented students. “Meet the Harp” workshop participants will explore the harp in this question and answer session with local teacher Elizabeth Biggs, as well as having the opportunity to play the harp. Sessions run at 3pm and 3:30pm. Later in the afternoon, Alice Giles will give a presentation on the history of the harp at 5:45pm. The Harp Centre Shop will also be on display during the Festival, with a range of harps, music, strings and accessories.

A special feature of the Festival is not one, but two exquisite solo recitals by Internationally renowned performer Alice Giles, at 4:30pm and 7:30pm. The first concert will feature the Australian premiere of Toccata by New Zealand composer Gillian Whitehead, alongside traditional harp repertoire from two of the great harp composers, Carlos Salzedo and Marcel Tournier. The second concert, Alice in Antarctica is a breathtaking and unique performance, developed by Giles whilst in Antarctica in 2011 as an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow at the Davis and Mawson Stations. 

Download a flier

Sarah Deere-Jones in concert

Sunday 21st April

Artists Shed, 14 Foster St, Queanbeyan

Download a flier

2pm 'Harp workshop on finger technique and Cornish music for harp' 

$25 - buy tickets! 

Come and try some good exercises to build up strength and flexibility in your
hands, afterwards we will try playing some Cornish music for harp - no need
to be able to read music as these pieces will be taught by ear - beginners
welcome!

4.30pm Concert, with Sarah Deere-Jones harp, with Phil Williams Gazuki.

 $15 / $12 concession - buy tickets!

 
Sarah and Phil will be performing some dazzling fast traditional dance
tunes, haunting songs, hilarious jazz numbers and some of Sarah's own
compositions for harp - come and take this rare chance to see one of the
best lever harpists from UK- BBQ afterwards!

Sarah Deere-Jones - harp and voice, with Phil Williams guitar/gazuki
Sarah Deere-Jones has become known as one of the finest lever harpists
in the UK with her dazzling playing and haunting arrangements of all
genres of music for the instrument from medieval, traditional through to
jazz. With Phil Williams on guitar and gazuki she has performed at
venues throughout the UK and America and on radio and TV, and their
recordings have been broadcast all over the world. Sarah and Phil
originated from two entirely different musical worlds, Sarah having been
classically trained and Phil a self-taught folk musician, which gives
their music a unique blend of technical wizardry and honest
authenticity, and their relaxed and friendly concerts that flow with
sparkling instrumentals and gripping songs to hilarious jazz numbers,
are joyfully gift wrapped with a generous helping of dry humour.

Stolen Moments with Tegan Peemoeller

Harpist Tegan Peemoeller will be presenting a special performance with associate artist Rohan Thatcher, baritone.

Stolen Moments: transcriptions, arrangements and ouright theft! features a range of works not originally written for the harp. This is sure to be an interesting concert, of new and familiar works in new settings.

Sunday 3 March, 3pm

The Artists Shed, 14 Foster St Queanbeyan.

Tickets $10, $5 concession available at the door.

e-flyer

ROSA MUNDI

Domestic Divas Australian Tour 2012

Sophia Brumfitt, Soprano and Rosemary Hodgson, lute, theorbo and harplute.

Tracing the musical journey of women at home and on the stage, comes this exquisite new program by UK soprano Sophia Brumfitt and Australian lutenist Rosemary Hodgson.

From the beginnings of English lute songs by Dowland and Campion, through the high baroque with stunning works by Caccini, Eccles and Purcell, culminating in exotic parlour songs from the 19th century; Domestic Divas is an exploration of songs that women have sung over four centuries.

Featuring the divine and virtuosic voice of Sophia Brumfitt accompanied by the exquisite sounds of Rosemary Hodgson’s lute, theorbo and an original 18th century Edward Light harp lute, Domestic Divas is a once in a lifetime musical experience, that will fascinate and enthral.

More details

The Harp in Nature with Verna Lee