ANNE DENHOLMAnne Denholm is one of the leading British harpists of her generation and served as Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales from 2015-2019. Anne studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Junior Department, the Purcell School, Newnham College Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, after starting her harp lessons at school in South West Wales. She received her Master’s from the RAM with distinction, studying under Karen Vaughan, and graduating as the first ever harpist to win the historic RAM Club Prize. In 2020 she was elected an Associate of the RAM (ARAM).
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LISE VANDERSMISSENLise Vandersmissen, born in 1996 in Belgium, graduated with Distinction from her Master’s Degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Imogen Barford, London. She is currently a Fellow at the Guildhall.
Lise participated successfully in national and international competitions. In 2019-2020, she won the First Prize at The 5th International Harp Competition in Slovenia, the Second Prize at the Fifth International Harp Competition in Hungary and the Second Prize at the North London Harp Competition 2020. She was awarded the Guildhall Harp Prize and was selected to be a Live Music Now musician. She was awarded a place as a UKHA Emerging Artist. |
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Tristan Le Govic is a well known Breton harp player with an acclaimed international career. He has performed in many festival in Europe, US, Canada and Russia, and has given many workshops during harp festivals. He has recorded many albums as a solo musician and also with other musicians. His recent trio with Tangi Le Hénanff (bass) and Alan Quéré-Moysan (drums) was awarded with the Nevez Flamm Trophy for best Fest Noz (folk dances) band of the year 2018, a band with whom he has recorded his last album Dañs.
Tristan has released also music books, he is the editor of the Antologiezh Telenn Breizh (the Breton harp anthology), a unique collection of Breton harp music in three volumes, bringing all together the greatest harpists of Brittany (among them Alan Stivell...) A gold medalist in the Celtic harp, he holds an M.A. and a National Diploma in teaching traditional music. He is actually writing a PhD Music at the University of Rennes with the Breton harp player Kristen Noguès as a subject. |
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