Harpists Magdalena Hoffmann, Parker Ramsay, Brandee Younger, and Madison Calley received shout outs from The Washington Post in a recent article titled "Beyond Vivaldi, a classical playlist to bring on the spring." The April 2 article by Michael Andor Brodeur praises...
Brandee Younger, Marilu Donovan, Hannah Stater, and Madison Calley are the subjects of a new article from The New York Times titled "How the Harp Got Hip." Author Alexis Garcia's March 16 article outlines the harp's stereotype as a "niche instrument" with "prudish...
Harpist Angelica Hairston is featured on the latest episode of From the Top: "Where Are They Now?" with host Peter Dugan on National Public Radio (NPR). In the episode, Hairston shares her journey with Challenge the Stats (CTS), an organization she founded, and...
Mary Lattimore's latest album Silver Ladders is gaining national attention. The album made The New Yorker's "Best Music of 2020" list in November, coming in at number three. Now, NPR has labeled it one of the "50 Best Albums of 2020." Author Lars Gotrich states that...
Kirsten Agresta Copely's album Around the Sun received a silver medal for outstanding achievement from the Global Music Awards. We caught up with Agresta Copely to hear her thoughts on the achievement. "I'm especially excited and proud to have won a silver medal from...
Two harpists have received praise from major publications for their latest albums. Mary Lattimore's album Silver Ladders made The New Yorker's "Best Music of 2020" list, coming in at number three. The list's author Amanda Petrusich describes the album as "dissonant...
Brandee Younger's new album, Soul Awakening, was recently featured on NPR. Reviewed by Nate Chinen, the article summarizes her musical trajectory, saying, "Younger, 35, has spent much of the last dozen years in a state of arrival, or maybe a process of emergence....
Ukrainian–Polish harpist Alina Bzhezhinska was interviewed in DownBeat, following the release of her debut album, Inspiration, in June. The album is a tribute to Alice Coltrane, a mix of favorites from the Alice and John Coltrane songbooks and Bzhezhinska’s original...
Mary Lattimore’s new album, Hundreds of Days, was recently featured in The New Yorker. Reviewed by Amanda Petrusich, the article also emphasizes the harp’s history and significance “in an era in which new synthesizer plug-ins are programmed, released, and then used by...
Sarah Bullen, principal harpist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was recently featured in the Chicago Sun-Times for her performance of Debussy’s Dances sacrée et profane with the CSO, conducted by Riccardo Muti. Kyle MacMillan’s review references her “feathery...
