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O’Carolan International Harp Festival in Keadue, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, harp champion (1990s) Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), first class honours BA (1990s) BBC Radio 3 ‘Young Musician‘, finalist (1999) Jakez Francois International Celtic Harp Competition in Nantes, winner (2004) [3] [4]
"Crystal Harp" solid-body (Goas-Stivell, 1987) Alan Stivell was born in the Auvergnat town of Riom.His father, Georges (Jord in Breton) Cochevelou, was a civil servant in the French Ministry of Finance who achieved his dream of recreating a Celtic or Breton harp in the small town of Gourin, Brittany [2] and his mother Fanny-Julienne Dobroushkess was of Lithuanian-Jewish descent.
The Celtic harp also had a reinforced curved pillar and a substantial neck, flanked with thick brass cheek bands. The strings are plucked with long fingernails. [40] This type of harp is also unique amongst single row triangular harps in that the first two strings tuned in the middle of the gamut were set to the same pitch. [41]
In 1952–1953, Jord Cochevelou built the first Breton new-Celtic harp. Since then and during the 50s, the Celtic harp or Breton harp has taken its place back into Breton music thanks to Jord and his son Alan Cochevelou; Alan was the first person to play it in public and became world-famous under his stage name Alan Stivell.
Over time he had many other harp teachers including Gwendolen Mason. [3] In 1965 he became an oboist and harpist with the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra. [4] He had been known to be able to skilfully play the pedal harp, neo-Celtic harp, and wire-strung Irish-Bardic harp. Bell served as a professor of harp at the Academy of Music in Belfast. [5]
In 2007, Hair released her debut harp album, "Hubcaps and Potholes", and has since performed at many festivals including Celtic Connections, the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe. [2] She has traveled throughout Europe, the United States, and New Zealand performing and teaching. [3]
Deborah Henson-Conant describes her music as "cross-genre: jazz-pop-comedy-folk-blues-flamenco-celtic". Deborah performs one-person shows in theaters, concert halls and festivals; and she does original music and theatre shows with symphony orchestras. Her performances mix music with theatrical and story elements.
By 1976 he had returned to music, forming the Merry Band with Sylvia Woods (Celtic harp), Jerry McMillan (fiddle), and Chris Caswell (flutes, and wire-strung harp). They toured extensively for three years throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, and released three albums: Journey's Edge , American Stonehenge , and A Glint at the Kindling .