Festival of Trees

Enjoyed a wonderful performance Saturday night at the Festival of Trees benefiting Brenner Children's Hospital at Dixie Classic Fairgrounds in Winston-Salem! Thank you performers, parents, and supporters for making our first performance a huge success! We wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!

November Rehearsal

Enjoyed another great rehearsal today! Thank you Ian and Austin for performing your beautiful solos! Ian performed Grandjany's Rhapsody and Austin performed Hasselman's Petite Berceuse. Looking forward to our first public performance on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the Festival of Trees in Winston-Salem! Please come and join us for this fun event supporting Brenner Children's Hospital!

The NC Harp Ensemble will be performing at the 23rd annual Festival of Trees, benefiting Brenner Children's Hospital at the Education Building on the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds at 5:30pm on Saturday, November 20, 2010. Come and experience the magical sights and sounds of the holidays at the Festival of Trees!

October Rehearsal

We enjoyed another great harp ensemble rehearsal on October 10, 2010! Ensemble members, Ian and Kristen performed harp solos during the group performance aspect of our rehearsals. They both did an outstanding job! If you are interested in hearing the harp ensemble perform, we have several public performances this season. All of these performances are open to the public. We hope to see you there as we share the beauty of multiple harps performing together!

2010 NC Harp Ensemble Performances

Festival of Trees, benefiting Brenner Children's Hospital
Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 5:30pm
The Education Building on the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds
421 West 27th Street, Winston-Salem, NC

Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 6:00pm
The Chapel at WhiteStone
700 South Holden Road, Greensboro, NC

Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 4:00pm
The Spirit Place at Abernethy Laurels
102 Leonard Avenue, Newton, NC

September Rehearsal

We had a wonderful first rehearsal of the NC Harp Ensemble on Sunday, September 12! We have a great group of student harpists participating, as well as a wonderful repertoire of ensemble music to perform! We are looking forward to our upcoming rehearsals in October and November, as well as our holiday performances!

Informational Meeting!

Thank you to all that participated in the informational meeting/group performance class for the NC Harp Ensemble on Sunday, August 29 in Greensboro! We are so excited to have such a talented group of student harpists participating in the inaugural season of the ensemble! We enjoyed getting to know the student harpists and their parents, as well as hearing each of them perform a solo on the harp! They all did an outstanding job! At the meeting, we distributed the folders with the selected ensemble music for the Fall/Winter season and assigned parts to ensemble members. If you are still interested in participating in the ensemble this season, please contact Grace Ludtke for information. Our first rehearsal will be September 12 in Greensboro. We are looking forward to a wonderful inaugural season of the NC Harp Ensemble!

Introducing the NORTH CAROLINA HARP ENSEMBLE!

We are very excited to offer beginning to advanced harp students of all ages an opportunity to participate in the inaugural season of the North Carolina Harp Ensemble! The North Carolina Harp Ensemble is directed by Jacquelyn Bartlett, who serves as the professor of harp at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Appalachian State University. Our mission is to provide professional harp ensemble instruction to student harpists throughout North Carolina, allowing them to benefit from participating and performing with an ensemble, which is an essential component to any musician's training.

There are numerous benefits to participating in an ensemble, which include:

• Reinforcing technique, rhythm, and musical concepts learned in private lessons.
  
• Valuable ear training as each member tries to listen to all of the parts simultaneously.


• Skills learned through ensemble playing lead to better solo performances.


• Performing in an ensemble helps take the pressure off the individual, which is a great way to ease students into public performance.


• It's an easy way for students to make friends and meet other harpists!
  

Ensemble members also have an opportunity to participate in the group performance class component of our rehearsals, where students are able to perform harp solos they are working on for each other in an informal and supportive atmosphere. This offers students an opportunity to share what they are learning in their private lessons with other harp students, as well as exposes ensemble members to a variety of solo harp repertoire.