Suffolk
HARPISTS ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Ramona EgleCT6 |
Ramona is an accomplished, professional harpist/musician/singer and has been performing for 20 years and teaching for over 10. She plays a beautiful Pilgrim Clarsach and also an Alexander Blazdell Victorian Gothic Concert Harp. Her repertoire spans Celtic, classical, traditional and popular modern pieces.
Much in demand playing for weddings and events in Kent, across the South East and throughout the UK, Ramona travels extensively, performing in many stunning venues including: Leeds Castle, Allington Castle, Chewton Glen, Lympne Castle, Whitstable Castle, and Eastwell Manor to name but a few. Ramona also performs at concerts, cultural events, handfastings, civil partnerships, garden parties, corporate events, funerals, welcoming ceremonies and with storytellers in schools. Alongside her performing career Ramona is one of Kent’s leading tutors enjoying a busy teaching schedule with students of all ages and from all walks of life. Some students are working towards ABRSM exams whilst others are learning simply for pleasure. As well as teaching technique she will help you on your musical journey and to play music that you enjoy. She encourages students to be creative and to explore how to arrange, compose and perform music. Ramona is a specialist tutor of Celtic lever harp and also teaches beginner/intermediate pedal harp and music theory. ON LINE LESSONS NOW AVAILABLE & PROVING POPULAR
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Helen SharpCO6 |
Currently freelancing in the UK, Helen has guested as Principal Harpist with many of the UK Symphony and Chamber Orchestras including the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia and the London Symphony Orchestra. A founder member of the chamber ensemble CHROMA, Helen also regularly works with Lontano, and has issued recordings with the Gabrieli Consort, Britten Sinfonia, Berkeley Ensemble and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Recent concerto appearances include Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto with the Orchestra of the Swan and Handel’s Harp Concerto with the City of London Sinfonia.
Alongside her playing career she enjoys coaching young harpists and is one of the harp tutors for the National Children’s Orchestra. She has also had success with coaching instrumentalists through the mental side of audition preparation. She has a successful teaching practice and is happy to work with any age of student. In addition to her playing and teaching careers she is Chair of the United Kingdom Harp Association. After reading music at Clare College, Cambridge, Helen became a scholar at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded many prizes and was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra for three years. Helen is also a keen sportswoman: she has run the London Marathon, and is an experienced coxswain. In the latter capacity, she is a veteran of both men’s and ladies’ first 8’s at Clare College and has coxed at the Henley Women’s Regatta many times. She is a qualified rowing coach and regularly coxes and coaches at Sudbury Rowing Club.
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Mary Anne BarclayIP4 |
Mary Anne read Music at St Peter’s College, Oxford, before training as a Music Therapist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She undertook her ATCL in the principles of instrumental teaching in 2011 and has been teaching the harp privately to students aged 5- 80 years old since then. She currently works as a music therapist around East Anglia and teaches the harp at Woodbridge School in Suffolk. She also coaches the harp section for Suffolk Music Service.
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"The finest pedal harp that has ever been made in Britain. It is much lighter than most concert harps and, this combined with an original body construction, has a range of sonority and dynamic that is quite remarkable.”
David Watkins |
Contact UsPilgrim Harps,
Stansted House, Tilburstow Hill Road, South Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8NA 01342 893242 info@pilgrimharps.co.uk |