The Harp School is back!
Featuring instructors Shoshanna Godber, Sharlene Wallace and Amelia Romano!
This year’s harp school runs August 17th to 21st, with a special meet and greet on Friday, August 16th in the evening!
During the mornings, dive in with your selected teachers. Then in the afternoons, hear all about a special topic!
Evening concerts and events to be announced!
Secure your space at the early bird rate ($399 until June 15th) - Click Here!
About the Instructors
Shoshanna GoDBer: Novice and Intermediate
Join Shoshanna's Novice/Intermediate Harp Workshop for a holistic musical journey! Learn practical steps to take to minimize stage fright from a self-proclaimed “Nervous Nelly” with insights learned the hard way. Gain strategies for effective practice to help you learn pieces faster. Delve into warm-up routines tailored for technique enhancement and learn how to apply the technical exercises to jamming with with fellow musicians and crafting your own unique arrangements.
Shoshanna’s Specialty Workshop: "Singing Strings - How to Accompany Yourself or Others on the Harp"
Do you wish you could sing while you play? Shoshanna will give you ideas on how to get started accompanying yourself. Not interested in singing? Fear not! The strategies presented can be applied to accompanying other instruments as well. Participants will learn hands-on how to craft a simple arrangement which will get them accompanying themselves and others right away.
About the instructor: Coming soon!
Sharlene Wallace | Intermediate
Inspiration. Fluidity. Beauty. Technique. Repertoire. Harp-Joy!
Shar's Intermediate harp class will dive into new tunes, left hand accompaniments, exercises and arranging ideas while incorporating technical ease, pattern recognition, beauty tone, expressive playing, improvisation and... other joyful inspirations!
Shar's Specialty Workshop: Learn a new Shar-Tune
Bring your harp and joy to learn a new tune written just for you! Sharlene will guide you through her piece musically, technically and compositionally. All levels are very welcome.
About the Instructor
Canadian harpist and composer, Sharlene Wallace, is a musician flowing between and mingling Classical, folk and contemporary genres and performing, recording and teaching on both pedal and lever (Celtic) harps. Winner of two international competitions, Sharlene has toured internationally and performed in festivals and concert series across North America and in Europe. She has released seven albums featuring her compositions inspired by explorations with South American, Celtic, Classical and contemporary music. This year, Sharlene will be releasing a new album of Shar-compositions for acoustic and electric lever harps with electronics by Jean Martin. She is also creating a co-composition recording-performance-environmental project, Trees.Listen, with composer Frank Horvat, also for Celtic harp and electronics. Sharlene teaches lever and pedal harp at Wilfrid Laurier University and York University. sharlenewallace.com
Amelia Romano
Dive into the world of syncopation and classical music for lever instruments with Amelia Romano’s advanced class!
Amelia’s Specialty Class: Writing for harp in chamber music
In this session, Amelia will present two works demonstrating the process of arranging with lever harp as the focal point.
About the Instructor
Amelia Romano (harp, voice) is a concertizing lever harpist, programming classical re-imaginations alongside original works. She received her master’s in classical lever harp performance at San Francisco State University under the tutelage of Karen Gottlieb, retired second harpist of the San Francisco Symphony. Her latest album, “Levers Engaged: Classical Works Re-imaged for Harp '' and sheet music collection “Classical Re-imaginations," present the instrument as a valid voice in classical music. A composer, arranger and trailblazer in the lever harp world, she is equally at home writing Latin America inspired works for solo harp as she is adapting classical pieces for chamber collaborations.