HARP
Degrees Offered:
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
- Form and Analysis
- Harp Ensemble and Performance Seminar
- Harp Pedagogy
- Harmony & Counterpoint
- Keyboard Skills or Theory/Piano Class
- Liberal Arts Core and Electives
- Music Electives
- Music History
- Recital and concert attendance
- Science or Mathematics
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
Regular Guest Teachers:Deborah Henson-ConantUrsula Holliger
Nancy HurrellFelice Pomeranz
*Chamber Music Faculty
Your Performance Opportunities
- Boston Harp Gala (annual 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:
Recent Harp Events
All program and faculty information is subject to change.
