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Doan's latest video project is a 90-minute documentary that he wrote and starred in titled In Search of the Harp Guitar. John hosted an International Harp Guitar Festival at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. [9] Doan was recently awarded "World's Leading Harp Guitarist" by the Brand Laureate Awards.
The 2024 version of the Dutch Harp Festival was titled Night of a 1000 Strings and the lineup included Deborah Henson-Conant, Brandee Younger, Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain (violin), Remy van Kesteren, Alexander Boldachev and Alexandr Misko (guitar), Tom Monger (from Florence + The Machine), Angélica Salvi, Tempo!
Elizabeth Jaxon is the director for the World Harp Competition. She is also one of the board member for the Dutch Harp Festival along with Remy van Kesteren, Gert Wijnalda and Paul Hooijmans. [7] Volunteers help to make the event possible by supporting as guides, harp movers, drivers, and roles in the restaurant, ticketing desk and information ...
A harp guitar must have at least one unfretted string lying off the main fretboard, typically played as an open string. This family consists of many varieties of instrument configurations. Most readily identified are American harp guitars with either hollow arms, double necks or harp-like frames for supporting extra bass strings, and European ...
[5] [6] [7] In October 2013, Henson-Conant performed and represented the United States at the 7th annual World Harp Festival, in Asunción, Paraguay. As you know, a lot of my music is compositional, and there's a lot of arpeggiated guitar parts. They work really well on the harp, especially since it's an electric harp and you can process it.
Pilgrim Harps held the first iteration of the festival, then called the Celtic Harp Festival, in 1982 to coincide with the now-defunct Edinburgh Folk Festival.After two years, the quick growth of what had become the Edinburgh Harp Festival necessitated additional funds and assistance to run it, and Pilgrim Harps continued to support the festival but handed the reins over to the Edinburgh ...
No. 2, for harp, clarinet, timpani bells (chimes or glockenspiel), and double bass (1963) Koke no Niwa, for English horn (or B flat clarinet), 2 percussion and harp (1954; rev. 1960) The Garden of Adonis, for flute and harp (or piano) (1971) Firdausi, for clarinet, harp and percussion (1972) Spirit of Tress, for harp and guitar (1983)
The Partita for Harpsichord and Orchestra, [1] sometimes also referred to as Partita for Harpsichord, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Harp, Double Bass, and Chamber Orchestra [2] [3] [4] or Harpsichord Concerto, is a composition by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was finished in 1971 and is Penderecki's only major composition for a ...