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Heather Downie

Passion, Authenticity and Strong Foundations: Heather Downie

January 17, 2025
Scottish harpist Heather Downie is the principal lever harp tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also the creative force behind the wonderful online school: How to Harp. The community moves from the online world for the How to Harp retreat, which takes place next week in Stirling, Scotland.Read more…

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A chrome-mirror harp for Caroline Lizotte

April 12, 2015

A mirror-gloss chrome finish specially developed for Caroline Lizotte's Big Blue. Read more…

Ulysse

An invitation to a journey: our new Ulysse

April 7, 2015

An ultra-light, concert-quality harp created together with Elisa Vellia, the Ulysse is the new crown of our lever range. Read more…

Dasson An Delenn: our Breton lever harp competition

April 5, 2015

Dasson An Delenn - "the resonance of the harp" - is our lever harp competition with special focus on Breton music. Read more…

No Doubt: Concerto for MIDI harp and orchestra

April 4, 2015

One of the most ambitious projects involving our MIDI concert harp is Graham Fitkin's 'No Doubt', the first concerto for concert MIDI harp and orchestra. It was commissioned by Sioned Williams, and was premiered by Sioned and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton.

Composing

Composingforharp.com now live!

April 4, 2015

You can get information about what is possible on a harp from an orchestration book. But you cannot really learn understanding from a book, because you cannot hear the harp, or see the harpist playing it. Composingforharp.com sheds light on the realities.

Alice in Antarctica

Alice in Antarctica

April 4, 2015

The blue harp travelled to Antarctica, as part of an amazing multimedia project by Alice Giles.