Jennifer Crook

BA1
Jennnifer is a professional harpist, songwriter and musician with 25 years performing and teaching experience.
 
From the BBC Young Tradition Award, to playing electric harp as part of Snow Patrol’s touring band, Jennifer has enjoyed a rich and varied career. Her innate musicality and innovative approach to the lever harp has invited collaborations and recording sessions with roots artists like Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine, Jackie Oates and Miranda Sykes, as well as international artists like Susheela Raman and Susanna Baca. Jennifer has appeared on national television and radio, and tours the UK and abroad with her trio performing her own material. Her album ‘Carnforth Station’ recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios with producer Stephen W Tayler (Kate Bush) received stunning reviews.
 
Jennifer is both inspirational and down-to-earth in her approach to teaching the harp. Along with improving your technique, she will encourage you to develop your creativity and musicality, your understanding of structure and harmony, and invite you to play the music that excites and motivates you. If you compose a little (or a lot) she will explore that with you too. Jennifer can also coach you in recording, arranging, and performance skills, as well as singing and writing songs with the harp. So if you are looking for someone who can help you find your own unique expression through this ever-evolving instrument, then give Jennifer a call!
 
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“Jennifer is a first rate Harp teacher regardless of your starting point, from beginner to advanced. She tailors her teaching to the individual and their needs. Her enthusiasm and love of the Harp is infectious and you can't help coming away from her lessons with your spirits lifted and your love of the harp deepened. I would have no hesitation i. 
jen@jennifercrook.com
01225 859847
07771 906422​

Claire Dibble

BS6
After over 23 years as a Professional Harpist Claire has a wealth of experience providing beautiful live Harp music. She realises every event is special and unique and has over a thousand delighted customers.
Claire is highly regarded for the exceptionally beautiful sound she is able to create on the Harp and the emotion with which she plays. Claire read music at Royal Holloway University of London, majoring in Harp and graduating with BMus Hons. Whilst there she studied Harp under Charlotte Seale, Professor of Harp at the Guildhall School of Music. She continued her studies and achieved her ABRSM Diploma in Harp Performance.  Now based in Bristol, Claire is in great demand and plays regularly for weddings, business and private events throughout Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Wiltshire, Somerset. South Wales and the South-West.  Claire has a wide repertoire of Classical and Pop including songs by Adele, Beyoncé, Bublé, Carpenters, Coldplay, Jason Derulo, Elvis, Ellie Goulding, Elton John, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Pachelbel, Wagner and many more! 
Claire is also an experienced harp teacher able to adapt her style to different types of pupils.  She enjoys teaching the harp to pupils of all ages and abilities, both privately and at Badminton Girls’ School in Bristol.
music@clairedibble.co.uk
0117 9087400

Ruth Faber

BS31
Ruth Faber studied the harp at the Royal College of Music with Marisa Robles. Since then she has worked with the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, London Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestras, along with the English Chamber Orchestra and London Mozart Players. Regional orchestral work has included Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh Opera and Birmingham Royal Ballet, a post she held before moving to the West Country.
Ruth’s busy solo schedule has featured recitals all over the UK and abroad, notably concerts at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. She has played concerti with the English Chamber Orchestra and Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Performances for television have seen her appear for BBC 1 and BBC 2 and also on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4.
Teaching is an important part of Ruth’s life and she currently teaches at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Wells Cathedral School, Junior Guildhall, Bristol and Bath Spa Universities. Ruth also holds her own residential childrens’ harp courses each summer.
On a lighter note, Ruth has travelled the world playing for British Airways Promotions. 

Emma Graham
Emma Graham is an accomplished, professional musician who has been delighting audiences with her exciting, skilled playing and relaxed performing style for over twenty five years. 
Based in the beautiful Devon village of Kenn, near Exeter, she is in great demand, both as a concert soloist and as one of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset's most popular wedding entertainers. She is also one half of sparkling harp duo Harpe Noire
 
Emma is also one of the region's leading harp teachers, bringing the harp to a new generation.

Julia Hammersley

BS7
Julia Hammersley is a Bristol based harpist who performs regularly with orchestras and ensembles in the region, including: Bristol Classical Players, Bristol Ensemble, Bristol Concert Orchestra, Brandon Hill Orchestra, Bath Symphony Orchestra and Bristol Opera. She is also one half of the flute and harp ensemble, Topaz, with Michelle Krawiec, as well as working with the Clarsach Society on small, 34 string harps. 

She has been involved in running music workshops in various inner-city Bristol schools, Bristol Royal Children's Hospital, for the Bristol and West of England Clarsach Society and events for young children. She is keen to give people a chance to experience the harp and regularly takes a collection of small harps (clarsachs) to events to promote the harp.

Angharad James
I am a freelance harpist based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. I play the harp at weddings, corporate events, with orchestras & other music groups. I am also an experienced and sympathetic harp teacher who gives harp lessons from my home in Cheltenham. I play both classical and traditional music on the Concert and Celtic Harp. I was born in Abergavenny and began studying music in school, gaining Grade 8 with Distinction in both Harp and Piano. I studied the harp at Bristol University where I completed a BA (hons) in Music. I further developed my performing abilities by completing a Postgraduate Advanced Diploma in Harp Performance at the Royal Welsh College College of Music and Drama (Cardiff.) ​

Katie McClaughry 
I am a freelance harp and trumpet player living in Cornwall and working across the south of England.  I offer a friendly, professional service providing instrumental music for a wide range of private and corporate events.
Music is my passion. I have been playing the harp and the trumpet for over twenty years, during which time I have amassed a wealth of experience and gained an extensive repertoire of solo, chamber and orchestral works.  
Most recently I have studied the harp with the internationally renowned harpists Gabriella Dall'Olio, Head of Harp Studies at Trinity College of Music and Catherine White, Professor of Harp at the Royal Academy of Music and the natural trumpet with John Hutchins of the Royal Academy of Music. 
In 2009 I graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters degree.

Marie-France Riboulet
I started to play the harp at the age of 12 at the Conservatoire de Besancon, France with Madame Adloff and finished my studies after 8 years. I have been playing since in the UK, many residencies in Bath, Bristol and the South West. I enjoy playing for weddings and private functions and if possible happy to play request and make my own arrangements of modern songs.

Sue Sherratt

EX31
Susan Sherratt has gained a widespread reputation as an experienced and versatile harpist performing in concerts both as a soloist and in orchestras throughout the UK.  She also performs regularly at weddings, social events and at hotels and enjoys teaching the harp to pupils of all ages and abilities.
Susan began her career as a clarinettist and recorder player and studied in London at the Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  However, she had always longed to play the harp and eventually took it up at the tender age of 36!  She has  studied with Ruth Faber and Catherine White and has taken part in masterclasses with Imogen Barford, Charlotte Seale and Karen Vaughan (LSO).
Susan lives in North Devon and has taught at Exeter University, Dartington College of Arts, Dauntsey’s School , West Buckland School , Taunton School and Blundell’s School
Available for events in: Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire

Martin Solomon

BS5
An experienced teacher and performer on the Celtic (lever) harp, I specialise in teaching beginners of all ages, eight to eighty, either at your house or at my studio in Bristol.
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