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Kirsty is a young freelance harpist whose
varied work takes her across the UK.
She began learning the harp at the age of
ten on a small instrument, hand-made by her mother. After
transferring to the classical concert harp she won a
number of awards and prizes, toured America as principal
harpist with the Hampshire Youth Orchestra and gave
several solo recitals. She graduated in 2000 with a First
Class Honour’s degree from the University of Manchester,
where she studied the harp with Eira Lyn Jones and in 2001
went on to gain a Master’s Degree with distinction,
specialising in issues surrounding the harp in the
Twentieth Century. She received first prize at the
Leamington Spa Harp Festival and also gave the premiere in
the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall of a new work for solo
harp (Sacred Time by Andrew Keeling) – a piece which was
written especially for her.
In 2002 she travelled to Prague to give
performances of Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto and to
Belfast to play with the Moscow City Ballet.
Her
musical experience is diverse: from the traditional,
appearing at top venues such as the Manchester Bridgewater
Hall and Hampton Court; to the bizarre, as a ghostly
on-stage harpist in contemporary music theatre. |
