OSAS-Harp

Ohio Scottish Arts School

Come Join The “Magic”! June 25—July 1, 2011 Our 33rd Year!

Harp

All Students are expected to bring their own instrument.

The Scottish Harp classes will focus on:

• Basic harp technique for beginners and intermediates.

• Repertoire at all levels, including tunes for competition sets.

• Scottish style, including ornaments, lilt, and dance types.

Evening jam sessions offer students the chance to develop accompaniment patterns and learn more tunes.

The nylon/gut harp classes will study Scottish dance music, airs, and songs, focusing on ornamentation, Scottish style, accompaniment, and learning by ear. Afternoons will include lectures, practice time, and playing in sessions. Classes will be available for beginners who have played for a few months, intermediates, and advanced players.

Be advised that class size is limited and some classes fill

BEFORE the stated deadline for registration.

Maeve Gilchrist was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. Daughter to an Irish mother and Scottish father she grew up immersed in traditional folk music. At an early age Maeve was accepted into the City of Edinburgh Music School where she spent seven years studying classical piano, clarsach (Celtic harp), pedal harp and towards the end, jazz vocals. From thirteen onwards, Maeve was an in demand member on the traditional music scene in Scotland where she performed at events such as the opening of the Scottish Parliament, the Celtic Connections Festival and the International Edinburgh Harp Festival. At seventeen Maeve received a full scholarship from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA where she studied jazz and world music, alongside a colorful career as a professional musician and teacher. Maeve has performed all over the states as well as having being well received in Switzerland, UK, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia and Canada. Maeve has played and recorded with musicians such as Matt Glaser, Meshell Ndegio Cello, Terri Lyne Carrington, Vardan Ovsepian,The Unusual Suspects, Kathy Mattea, Esperanza Spalding, Frank Ferrell, Mary Macmaster, Corina Hewitt and Martyn Bennett. She leads her own group, ‘The Maeve Gilchrist Trio’ which fuses Jazz, Latin and Scottish music to create an exciting new sound. Her Debut CD ‘Reaching Me’ was released in 2006 to international acclaim.

Allison Miller began music lessons at age three at Mt. Union College, studying Suzuki piano under Carol Wunderle and continued her studies under Mrs. Mary Louis Foster for the next 11 years. She began to play the folk/lever harp at age 14 and began attending the Ohio Scottish Arts School in Oberlin, Ohio, for harp instruction in 2001. After completing an undergraduate degree in biology in the US, Allison had the opportunity to pursue post-graduate studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland, in Clarsarch (Scottish small harp) and Scot’s Song. She has studied under masters of the harp, including Patsy Seddon, Savourna Stevenson, Corinna Hewatt, Uschi Laar, and Wendy Stewart. Allison taught Irish harp with Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann in Scotland, and has taught both privately and publicly in America. She has appeared in concert in Scotland, Canada, and at multiple venues in the States, most recently being the Celtic Roots Festival in Goderich, Ontario, and for the Welsh Society of America in Pittsburgh, PA. She has recently completed her Doctorate in Physical Therapy and has been researching balance and ergonomic positioning in musicians, which she incorporates into lessons and teaching. She has formed a duo with her sister, Sairey, The Hired Hands and they released their first CD, Something, in the spring of 2009.

Sue Richards is a traditional musician and collector of tunes. She has played the harp since childhood, and found it to be the perfect instrument for her passion. To this end, she has won the Scottish Harp Society of America (SHSA) championship four times, studied and taught in Scotland and recorded with many friends, a natural outgrowth of a good session. She is a SHSA Distinguished Judge. Sue has performed at Celtic Connections and the Edinburgh International Harp Festival in Scotland, and toured Norway and Sweden with the “Harpa” ensemble. She has played for Presidents Clinton and Bush, Queen Elizabeth of England, and sat in with the Chieftains Irish band. Sue’s main gig is touring with Ensemble Galilei, a group of five women performing Celtic, early, and original music. As a member of EG she has written music and performed in two multi-media shows, “A Universe of Dreams”, and “First Person: Letters from the Edge of the World”, the latter sponsored by the National Geographic Society. She also performs with Sharon Knowles as “HEN” harp duo. www.suerichards.net. Ensemble Galilei: www.egmusic.com.

2010 Instructors

Faculty is subject to change depending on enrollment.

Instructors for 2011 have yet to be determined