Fantastic harpist - ideal for weddings or corporate events

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Kate studied the harp with Eluned Pearce and Saida de Lyon at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama as a junior scholar and later moved to London to study with Sioned Williams and Imogen Barford at Trinity College of Music. She regularly gives recitals all over the country, including venues such as the Fairfield Halls and St James’ Piccadilly, and has recently performed Handel’s Harp Concerto with the Croydon Symphony Orchestra. In 2000, Kate won the Trinity College of Music UK Harp Association Prize and in 2001 the Croydon Music Festival Concerto Prize. October 2005 saw Kate backing the pop band ‘McFly’ on an electric harp for their debut Arena tour of the UK and Ireland, playing to over 200,000 people.

Kate is also a member of the Aurora Duo, an established flute and harp duo. Finalists of the “Gaetano Zinetti” International Chamber Music Competition (2005) and recommended artists for the Making Music “Young Concert Artist Award”, they have performed extensively and to great acclaim throughout the UK and Europe. They are in much demand with various orchestras, having performed the Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto in London, Birmingham and Glasgow. They completed a successful tour of Scotland in October 2004 and are set to return in April 2006.

In addition to her chamber music work, Kate has worked with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and Scottish Sinfonia for radio broadcasts, CD recordings and live performances at the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre and St John’s, Smith Square.

Sample repertoire

Classical
Les Adieux – Beethoven Watching the Wheat – John Thomas Pavane – Faure
Variations on a theme of Mozart – Anon Air Water Music Handel Adagio – Albinoni
Alleluia Exultate Jubilate – Mozart Ave Maria – Schubert Autumn Four Seasons Vivaldi
Berceuse from Dolly Suite – Faure Clair de Lune – Debussy
Theme Clarinet Concerto Mozart Entr’acte Rosamunde Schubert Fur Elise – Beethoven
Jupiter The Planets – Holst Lullaby – Brahms Meditation – Massenet
O My beloved Father – Puccini O for the Wings of a dove – Mendelssohn
The Swan Carnival of the Animals Saint-Saens Spring song Haydn
Mozart Sonatina in Gmajor To a wild rose – MacDowell Preludio No 11 – Bach
Nocturne – Chopin Largo – Handel Sonatina No2 – Dussek
Harp Concerto in B flat – Handel Flute and Harp Concerto – Mozart Gavotte – Gluck
Minuet in G minor Pavane – Wachs Minuet in F – Mozart
Dance of the Blessed Spirits – Gluck Largo from Violin Partita 1 – Bach
Andante from Violin Sonatea No2 – Bach Petite Berceuse – Hasslemans Canon in D – Pachelbel
Wedding March – Mendelssohn Bridal March – Wagner Gymnopedie – Satie
IRISH
Carolans concerto – Cuthbert Smilin through – Arthur Penn Tune from County Derry
She moved through the fair Spinning wheel song Cockles and Mussels
SCOTTISH
Gallaghers Frolics – Chasthasaigh Skye Boat Song – arr Mieras Eriskay Love lilt
The Cockle gatherer Harp of Gold Afton Water
WELSH
3 traditional Welsh airs Watching the Wheat
ENGLISH Greensleeves
COCKTAIL
Jerome Kern Smoke gets in your eyes The Way you look tonight
Can’t help lovin dat man
Misty – Garner Styne It’s been a long time Time after time
Gershwin Summertime But not for me
Embraceable you Let’s call the whole thing off Someone to Watch over me