HARPISTS UK

Harpist - Liehsja
Covering; London, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire,
Berkshire, Hertfordshire

Liehsja began the folk harp at the age of nine in
Aberdeen, Scotland. On moving to Sussex she won a scholarship to study the pedal harp with Helen Arnold. She toured with Brighton Youth Orchestra to Hong Kong in 1999 and to Italy with the East Sussex Youth Orchestra the following year.
In 2003 Liehsja made her debut as a soloist with the Keele Philharmonic Orchestra touring to Paris and across Brittany performing Debussy's 'Danses'. Graduating with Firsts in Performance from Keele Liehsja was invited to join
Birmingham Symphonic Winds to attend the prestigious Midwest Clinic World Conference in Chicago, December 2003.
As a freelance harpist Liehsja is in demand for
orchestral playing, weddings, parties and functions, and as a member of the folk band 'Andrew Norman and the Blaxland Sisters' she was invited to headline at the chiddinglye Folk Festival in October 2004. An exciting upcoming event is a collaborative project with Brian Keenan (author of 'An Evil Cradling' and 'Turlough')on the seventeenth-century Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan, as part of the Cambridge Music Conference on the theme of the heart in July 2005.

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