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SNOWMAN with live orchestra! Delighted to be playing with all the wonderful musicians involved in this marvellous production with nearly 50 shows across the North UK throughout December. Public performances are listed here From Chester, York, Hull, Coventry, Liverpool... from 1st-30th December please see detail on their website Photo of scary snowman (and scary harpist) taken from last years tour. 
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Performing with Psappha in new piece by Philip Cashian - Leonora Pictures at St Michael's Church, Ancoats, Manchester.
Details and tickets available here Solo harp recital for Middlewich & District Concert Society. "In a Landscape" Details and tickets available here Programme to include pieces by John Cage, Michael Kurakek, Monika Stadler. My new Starfish lever harp will be arriving soon, so I'm hoping to debut it in concert here, along with performing on my concert Salvi Iris.  A first for me, playing Holst's The Planets arranged for Brass Band with harps & celeste. Great to be playing again with the mighty Foden's Band in concert at Keele University Chapel. Ticket details here Good excuse for another gratuitous Saturn shot taken by Cassini - photo by Nasa  YAY!!! Planets at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Thursday 19th October & Sunday 22nd. I'm a science fan so good excuse to post a lovely photo of Saturn taken by the amazing Cassini - photo by Nasa. Tickets available here  Performing with Nantwich Sinfonia for concert with the lovely Nantwich Singers at St Mary's Church Nantwich at 7.30pm. Rutter Mass for the Children.
info here Stravinsky's Firebird (3 harp version) has got to be one of the most amazing pieces out there! Playing in the harp section with Petrenko conducting at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Thursday 5th October. Tickets here Also in Preston on Sunday 8th October.
 Throughout June & July I'll be working with the Northern Chamber Orchestra again for their annual residency at Buxton Festival.
This year I'll be playing harp in two operas as well as a concert by NCO during the festival. Macbeth by Verdi and Albert Herring by Britten The operas are on various dates throughout July and details can be found here I'l be playing the reduced chamber version (organ, harp & percussion) of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Liverpool Welsh Choral at their concert at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool.
I'll also be performing a solo harp piece by Michael Kurek, Moon Canticle. details here I'm delighted to be joining the fabulous Nantwich Singers chamber choir for their Summer concert at St Mary's Church in Nantwich. I'll be performing a wonderful work for choir & harp - Cecilia McDowall's A Fancy of Folksongs. I'll also be performing a solo harp piece by Michael Kurek, Moon Canticle. Two very exciting pieces which I've very much looking forward to performing in this fabulous church which has an amazing acoustic. info here  I know a lot of harpists are not so keen on playing this piece, but I love playing it! The epic Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz conducted by Vasily Petrenko, I'm on 2nd harp duties playing alongside the Phil's new principal harpist, Elizabeth McNulty.
Concerts in Liverpool on 6th and 7th April tickets here I'm playing principal harp in one of my favourite choral pieces... Elgar's Music Makers in Leeds Town Hall
tickets here I'm playing in the harp section of Damnation of Faust by Berlioz conducted by John Nelson details here
Just the four harps on stage for this concert!!! This is a new one for me... Ravel's Piano Trio orchestrated for orchestra by Paul Tortelier who will also be conducting this concert.
I'm on 2nd harp duties and there are concerts in Liverpool on the 12th & 13 and in Sheffield on the 15th details here  This year I'm doing 4 performances of "A Flute & Harpy Christmas" in Cheshire, and I'll be joined by the wonderful Nichola Hunter on flute.
Three of them are private performances, between 21st-23rd December bringing a little bit of Christmas concert magic to elderly residents in care homes across Cheshire. On the 22nd December we will be doing a public performance at St Mary's Church in Sandbach, and for that we'll be joined by special guests Nick Birch on Euphonium and Kevin Birch on Organ. Nichola and I did a couple of duo outreach performances for the Snowman Tour at the end of November. We performed at the Manchester Childrens Hospital and then to a dementia unit in Eccles for Pro-Viva who are a wonderful forward-thinking caring organisation who sponsored one of the performances at this years Snowman Tour as a relaxed performance aimed at children and adults with a range of abilities and differing requirements.  Yay!!! It's that time of the year for The Snowman Tour. As featured in The Guardian, The Sunday Times and the Telegraph as one of the 'top things to do at Christmas'. A Screening of Raymond Brigg's classic Christmas film to live orchestra, with lots of other seasonal musical treats. Lots of dates across the North of England from 1st-18th December and some are already booked up so BOOK NOW! Details of all the dates here  A glorious 7 harps are involved in Wagner's epic opera! There are 6 harps on stage and I'll be playing the off-stage harp accompanying the Rhine maidens towards the end of the opera. booking details here  Playing harp with Psappha in Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (22 strings, harp and tape). The rest of the concert features the amazing "The Impossible Gentlemen" joining Psappha strings for a performance of Mike Walker's Ropes. This should be an AMAZING gig of contemporary music. booking details here |
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