Harp
Degrees Offered
- Bachelor of Music in Harp Performance
- Master of Music in Harp Performance
- Graduate Performance Diploma in Harp
- Professional Studies Certificate in Harp Performance
- Artist Diploma
Note: Undergraduate music performance students may apply in their junior year for admission into the dual degree program to earn a Master of Music in Music Education.
Your Training
The Boston Conservatory offers everything a harpist could want to explore and experience: a collaborative harp department; a school where individuality is welcomed and nourished; a city that has renowned and extraordinary harpists in a wide spectrum of genres; and an arts environment that features an amazing range of audience and performance opportunities.
Courses
- Applied lessons and recitals
- Chamber Music
- Conducting
- Ear Training
- Harp Ensemble and Performance Seminar
- Harp Pedagogy
- Harmony & Counterpoint
- Piano Class
- Liberal Arts Core and Electives
- Music Electives
- Music History
- Orchestras/Large Ensembles
- Recital and concert attendance
- Science or Mathematics
- Theory & Musicology Electives
Your Teachers
The Coordinator of the Harp Department, Cynthia Price-Glynn, is the Principal Harpist with the Boston Ballet, has a broad range of musical experience and interests, and works in numerous genres. The Harp Department also benefits from the rich resources of many other harpists in and beyond the Boston area.
Harp Department Faculty:
- Cynthia Price-Glynn* (Department Coordinator)
- Ina Zdorovetchi* (Principal Harpist with the Boston Lyric Opera)
Regular Guest Teachers:
- The Boston Harp Festival (held biennially)
- Boston Harp Gala (biennial performance by harpists from Boston area colleges)
- Chamber music concerts
- Chorale concerts
- Collaborative performances with composers, musicians, dancers and actors
- Community outreach performances in Greater Boston
- GentleMUSES (therapeutic music program at Massachusetts General Hospital)
- Harp Ensemble
- Master classes
- Orchestra repertoire class
- Pit orchestra for opera, dance and musical theater productions
- Solo recitals
- The Boston Conservatory Orchestra
- Wind Ensemble
- WorldFest (featuring international music and traditions)
Your Future
Your Boston Conservatory education can prepare you to audition for orchestras, to enter competitions, to work with composers, to master traditional recital repertoire, to develop unique singer-songwriter talents and repertoire, to create programs for school and community audiences and to arrange music for harp in a variety of genres. Our alumni are performing and teaching at prestigious organizations throughout the world, including:
- Boston Ballet
- Boston Lyric Opera
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Boston Pops
- Bucharest International Harp Competition
- China Philharmonic in Beijing
- New World Symphony
- Paris International Harp Competition
- Savannah Music Festival
- Tanglewood Music Center
- The International Harp Contest in Israel
Recent Harp Events
- The Boston Harp Festival (September 25-26, 2010):In the fall of 2010, our harp department hosted the first edition of the Boston Harp Festival as organized by the festival Founder & Artistic Director,Ina Zdorovetchi. The weekend-long event featured a total of 12 programs filled with amazing solo and chamber music performances, exhibitions, panel discussions, master classes and private lessons. This year performers and presenters included Ann Hobson Pilot, Jessica Zhou, Ursula Holliger, Deborah Henson-Conant, Cynthia Price-Glynn, Felice Pomeranz, Nancy Hurrell, Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, The Harp Connection representatives andIna Zdorovetchi. The event was attended by approximately 250 guests from the US and Canada. For complete program information, please visitwww.bostonharpfestival.com.
- The 2009Historical Harp Society26th Annual Workshop & Conference:Held in conjunction with the world-renowned bi-annualBoston Early Music Festival.
- MIDI Harp Workshop with harp makerDave Kortierand harpistMartha Gallagher(2009):A workshop held where participants learned about and played this cutting-edge instrument.
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