Historical Harps

Concerts & Recordings - Listen - Personal Projects

From 2006-2009, I engaged in postgraduate study in Basel, Switzerland, specialising in harps that existed before our modern classical concert harp. I have worked extensively as a performing and recording artist with these instruments, both in the UK and overseas (see below for a list of recordings). I currently work mainly with Renaissance instruments, exploring the rich world of gut-strung double harp, bray harp and wire-strung harp. I see these instruments as having both a past identity and a current one, with potential for a broader range of repertoire than their origin stories dictate.

I’m on the following recordings: Mother, Sister, Daughter (with Musica Secreta); the Gramophone-Award-winning Western Wynd (with The Taverner Consort) & Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Taverner Consort); The Anne Boleyn Songbook (Alamire): In Chains of Gold (Fretwork); Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible (I Fagiolini); Colours in the Dark and Les Fantaisies de Josquin (Ensemble Leones); The Birth of the Violin (Le Miroir de Musique); Codex Chantilly II and De Tristresse, de Deuil, de Desplaysance (Tetraktys).

(Above, left to right: 1. Recording with Katharine Hawnt for Musica Secreta’s CD Mother, Sister, Daughter; 2. With Musica Secreta for a concert at Stour Music Festival, Kent. 3. In session with Ensemble Leones, Switzerland.)

Listen

Please click below to hear my Renaissance harp duet with Jacob Heringman (lute) on Alamire’s recording of Anne Boleyn’s Songbook; or head over to my Listen page for a wider variety of sounds and samples.

Personal Projects

I am usually also developing my own projects. Take a look here if you’re interested in past or pipeline projects: Personal Projects.