Upcoming Events
Auditions and Evaluations 2025
Music Education Auditions and Evaluations (A&E) is an educational program for harp students sponsored by the American Harp Society, Inc. Participants come specifically to be heard and to hear one another. Because this is a unique two-part program, there is special focus on the improvement that can be made by participating on both days.
On the first day, participants play pieces of their own choosing for the advisor, Mary Jane D’Arville, . The advisor gives each student feedback on their performance. On the second day of the program (March 1st), about a month later, participants show their improvement by playing the same pieces again. Because this is not a competition, no prizes are given, however everyone who participates both days receives a Certificate of Participation from the Music Education Committee of the American Harp Society.
Mercer Harp Ensemble Fall Concert: "At the Ballet"
Themes evoking the imagery of some of the world’s most beloved ballets will be awakened by the Harp Ensemble performing an evening of notable staged favorites by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and more.
DUO HARPISTS JUAN RIVEROS & SAGE HARRISON
The third concert in The Nancy Frampton Rising Artists Series' 2024 season features Harpists Juan Riveros & Sage Harrison
Lilac 94 Harp Duo
The Lilac 94 Harp Do will present a concert free and open to the public!
Roswell Presbyterian Church (Sanctuary)
755 Mimosa Blvd.
Roswell, GA. 30075
Atlanta Harp Center Festival
World-class inspiration meets Southern hospitality at the upcoming Atlanta Harp Center Festival, to be held March 15 – 17, 2024, in Decatur, Georgia, a charming suburb of Atlanta. The Festival will feature Internationally renowned artists Juan Riveros, Kim Robertson, Amanda Whiting, and Valérie Milot. Other guest artists will include Rhett Barnwell, Angi Bemiss, Ashley Crosland, Paula Fagerberg, Robbin Gordon-Cartier Jacqueline Pollauf, ensembles, and more. It promises to be a weekend packed full of workshops, concerts and special events, covering classical, Latin, Celtic, jazz, sacred, and therapeutic music, designed for both lever and pedal harpists. Kim Robertson will round out the Festival on St. Patrick’s Day with a rousing concert of Celtic music.
Don't miss out - register now!
https://www.atlantaharpcenterfestival.com
Kaitlin Miller Solo Harp Concert
Kaitlin Miller, American Harp Society’s Concert Artist for 2023-2025, will present a solo harp concert on Sunday February 11, 2024 in the Sanctuary of the Roswell Presbyterian Church. The concert will begin at 4:00 and is free and open to the public. Come and bring as many family members and friends as you would like. The hour long concert will be such a gift to our harp community and to the community at large. Let's share our love of harp with all the people we know as we listen to this talented young artist share her talent with us.
Kaitlin Miller Master Class
Kaitlin Miller, AHS Young Professional winner, Master Class
Harp and Flute Fusion
Middle Georgia Harp Ensembles and Middle Georgia Flute Choir will present this combined ensemble performance. Calista Anne Koch will lead members of the Mercer Harp Ensemble, Middle Georgia Gen Z, and Middle Georgia Harp Ensemble and members of the Middle Georgia Flute choir, under the baton of Bastien Millo, will join in combined musical collaboration.
Amelia Romano Lever Harp Workshop
Accomplished harpist and teacher Amelia Romano will be giving workshop for lever harpists Sunday May 21st at 2:00 via Zoom. Workshop will present lever players with the tools and techniques for advancing the lever harp in the classical sphere and prepare and execute lever shifts and annotate chromatic works to ensure ease of execution in practice and performance. Workshop is $25 to participate, and will be followed by a virtual live recital at 4:00, which is free to all chapter members. Please visit https://www.ahsga.com/lever-harp-workshop to register for the workshop, and e-mail ahsgeorgiachapter@gmail.com to receive a Zoom link for the free recital.
Noel Wan Harp Recital
Lauded as “a huge talent [with] hidden power and amazing maturity” (Bart van Oort), Taiwanese-American harpist Noël Wan (1994) made her international debut in 2010, performing Alberto Ginastera’s Harp Concerto with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra. She has concertized across North America, Europe, and Asia and has been featured as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Eslite Hall, the Muziekgebouw, the Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival, and on NPO Radio 4’s Spiegelzaal. She can be heard on her solo album The Secret Garden (2010); with the Illinois Modern Ensemble on Dmitri Tymoczko’s album Fools and Angels (2018, Panoramic/New Focus); and forthcoming recordings of contemporary ensemble works by Tymoczko and John Liberatore. An international award-winning harpist, Dr. Wan is the Gold Medalist of the 12th USA International Harp Competition and First Prize Winner of the 2010 World Harp Competition. Other distinctions include Grand Prize in the 2014 Carmel Music Society Instrumental Competition; and Second Prize in the 2021 Orford Music Award, 2015 Korea International Harp Competition, and 2013 Nippon International Harp Competition. Furthermore, her artistic work has been generously supported by the Presser Foundation, Chimei Arts Foundation, and Ontario Arts Council.
Dr. Wan is an alumna of the University of Illinois (BM, DMA) and the Yale School of Music (MM). As a scholar, she has written and presented on topics of performance practice, ecocriticism, affect theory, new materialism, feminism, and race. Since 2022, she has served as the Assistant Professor of Harp and Entrepreneurship at Florida State University.
April 29th, 2023
First Baptist Roswell Church
710 Mimosa Blvd, Roswell Ga 30075
Purchase tickets at https://www.ahsga.com/noel-wan-recital
Alexander Boldachev Solo Recital
To buy tickets for this concert, you can purchase them at this link: https://eventcartel.com/events/orphey-by-chulpan-khamatova-buy-tickets-165/. Learn more about Alexander Boldachev at http://alexanderboldachev.com/en
Alexander Boldachev Masterclass
Tickets to audit are $20. Please e-mail ahsgeorgiachapter@gmail.com or follow this link to buy your ticket: http://paypal.me/GeorgiaChapter/20
Harpy Holidays Gathering
We will conduct our Fall Chapter Meeting and enjoy each other's company in person for the first time in many years! We will have a casual open mic-style performance if anyone would like to share their Holiday favorite or just a piece that they love to play. There will be a Salvi concert grand pedal harp and Lyon and Healy Ogden available to play.
RSVP by 12.10 via email to mollyoroark@gmail.com
The Nightmare Before Christmas with the ASO
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will present Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” featuring a screening of Disney’s timeless holiday classic with Grammy®-winning composer Danny Elfman’s musical score performed live to the film. The concert will be led by conductor Lawrence Loh.
First released in 1993, Tim Burton's “The Nightmare Before Christmas” was directed by Henry Selick (“James and the Giant Peach”) and based on a story and characters by Tim Burton. The film follows the earnest-but-misguided adventures of Jack Skellington, Halloween Town's beloved Pumpkin King, as he attempts to take over the Christmas holiday. Against the advice of Sally, a lonely rag doll who has feelings for him, Jack enlists three mischievous trick-or-treaters – Lock, Shock, and Barrel – to help him kidnap Santa Claus. The film is rated “PG.”
Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” Live in Concert is presented by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lawrence Loh and will be performed at Atlanta Symphony Hall on October 29 & 30, 2021.
*Costumes are welcomed and encouraged
Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto - Emma Burnsworth
Congratulations to local harp student Emma Burnsworth, winner of the Carrolton Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition! She will be performing the Mozart Flute and Harp Concert on Thursday October 14th. More information to come.
ASO: Tao’s Violin Concerto, Strauss’ Don Juan and more
September 17th and 18th
Conrad Tao is known for his virtuoso piano playing, but he's beginning to make his name as a composer, and we're privileged to perform the world premiere of his newest violin concerto. American violinist Stefan Jackiw, whose playing is hailed as "striking for its intelligence and sensitivity" (Boston Globe), takes center stage for the concerto.
The concert also contains some of our favorite works conducted by one of our favorite maestros: Music Director Laureate Robert Spano conducts Alvin Singleton's Different River. Debuted by the ASO in 2012, it's a single-movement work that follows the ebbs and flows encountered on the journey of life. Spano bookends the concert with two rollicking tone poems by Strauss, one features the infamous German prankster Till Eulenspiegel, the other profiles the legendary womanizer Don Juan, which features two harps.
Sounds of the New Normal
Harpist Angelica Hairston is joined by cellist Khari Joyner and harpist Brandee Younger in an unforgettable afternoon of music. Join us as three internationally acclaimed Black artists perform works by BIPOC (Black Indigenous, and People of Color) composers and discuss ways to celebrate communities of color as we navigate a "new normal" for our nation.
Quest by Elisabeth Remy Johnson
Congratulations to Atlanta Symphony Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson on her latest CD, Quest!
Remy Johnson’s new solo recording, Quest, features repertoire that in many cases she has helped bring to life – not only through her performances, but also (in many cases) through her own transcriptions of some of the pieces. Twelve women composers are represented here, in performances that are frequently revelatory.
Young Composer's Project Winners
Congratulations to local harp students Eleni Witte and Annalynn Waddy who were chosen to participate in the 2021 American Harp Society’s Young Composer’s Project! The Young Composers Project offers an opportunity for young harpist/composers to work with professional mentors to experience, explore, and develop a deep connection to the harp through composition.
Spring Meeting and Recital
Join us for our Spring Chapter Meeting followed by a recital performed by members of the Georgia Chapter who participated in this year's Auditions and Evaluations!
Join Zoom Meeting
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Caroline Wilkins Solo Recital
Caroline Wilkins is the 2019-2021 touring “Concert Artist” of the American Harp Society after winning the prestigious national competition. As such, she frequently presents recitals and masterclasses throughout the United States and Canada. She also won the 2018 Concerto Competition at the Music Academy of the West in her third summer as a fellow.
Auditions & Evaluations
Our annual A&E music education program is going virtual this year. A program for harp students of all ages that takes place over two dates with a non-competitive atmosphere and culminating in a final performance for all participants. Our guest adjudicator, Dr. Rosanna Moore, will be joining us via Zoom from Oregon!
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Holst's The Planets
One the most exciting conductors of his generation, Jonathon Heyward makes his Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut for a program featuring Gustav Holst's timeless orchestral suite, The Planets.
The Orchestra also welcomes the Montenegrin guitar sensation Miloš Karadaglić for a new work by the dynamic composer of film, television, opera, and dance Joby Talbot. A piece titled Ink Dark Moon, Talbot's concerto blends "the magical with the dangerously dark...with sparing hints of funk, folk and pop occasionally creeping in" [bachtrack.com].
Ruth Kern Young Artists Concerto Competition
With the Atlanta Community Orchestra and student Emma Burnsworth performing the Handel Harp Concerto!
Atlanta Ballet presents Giselle
Experience one of ballet’s grand romantic ghost stories—a tale of love, betrayal, madness & passion.
Achingly beautiful and tragic, Giselle is an enrapturing masterwork that remains one of the most enduring romantic ballets of all time. After a young peasant girl named Giselle is deceived by her true love, Albrecht, she falls into a fit of despair and dies of a broken heart. A woman scorned, she is destined to rise from the grave with the vengeful otherworldly beauties known as the Willis, entrapping men who unwittingly cross their paths. At once beguiling and maleficent, the Willis capture Albrecht and condemn him to dance until his death, but the power of Giselle’s enduring love protects him and ultimately sets them both free.
March 27th at 8:00
March 28th at 2:00 and 8:00
March 29th at 2:00
Caroline Wilkins Solo Harp Recital
As a winner of the grand prize at the American Harp Society (AHS) 2019 Young Professional Division, harpist Caroline Wilkins is serving as the AHS Concert Artist (touring the country with performances and masterclasses) for two years. Wilkins is a graduate of the prestigious University of Southern California Thorton School of Music with her Bachelors's and Masters's degrees in music. Caroline's trip is sponsored by the American Harp Society Inc. and the Georgia Chapter of the AHS, she will present both a masterclass and concert in the Atlanta area.
This recital will take place at Oglethorpe Art Museum, Lowry Hall, 3rd Floor.
Admission is $10 at the door
American Works for Today and Tomorrow
The Merian Ensemble, ASO musicians Elisabeth Remy Johnson, Christina Smith, Emily Brebach, Marci Gurnow, and Jessica Oudin, will perform Listen: Works by Women 2020: “American Music for Today and Tomorrow”, featuring works by Mary Kouyoumdjian, Reena Esmail, Margi Griebling-Haigh, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and more.
American Works for Today and Tomorrow
The Merian Ensemble, ASO musicians Elisabeth Remy Johnson, Christina Smith, Emily Brebach, Marci Gurnow, and Jessica Oudin, will perform Listen: Works by Women 2020: “American Music for Today and Tomorrow”, featuring works by Mary Kouyoumdjian, Reena Esmail, Margi Griebling-Haigh, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and more.
They will also be performing this program Tuesday March 17th at 8:00 at Emory Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
