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Harpist SE32
Covering; London, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire,
Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Essex |
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Popular award winning harpist that has travelled
the world performing and teaching the harp. She received
her training from tutors at The Royal College, Royal
Academy and The Guildhall and graduated with a music
degree from the University of Surrey specialising in
harp performance. She is now considered to be
one of the fore most harpists of her generation.
During her university and former years she won a variety
of performance awards as well as scholarships to attend
European summer schools. She was awarded the
prestigious University Crosier-Hughes performance award
two years in succession.
She
enjoys a varied free-lance career playing for
weddings, civil partnerships corporate events, recitals
and orchestral work. She prides herself in delivering
a high standard of performance, with impeccable
presentation, whilst maintaining a reliable and friendly
approach. She proudly plays a Salvi Arianna concert harp
which is considered to be a distinguished harp of exotic
beauty, visually and audibly, skilfully crafted from a
collection of rare woods from around the world. |
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She is regularly invited to perform for dignitaries
including HM The Queen, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, The Lord
Chancellor and various Heads of State including playing
for private functions held at The Savoy, Claridges,
Victoria and Albert museum and many other hotels/venues
in London and the South East. She was also the resident
harpist at Warwick castle for three years and Penny Hill
Park Country Club.
She
is frequently the featured classical artiste on
the International Majerstic Page and Moy cruise ships
travelling all over the world. Luisa has performed with
some of UK’s leading orchestras including the London
Sinfonietta, London Academic orchestra, Central Festival
orchestra, East of England orchestra (Sinfonia Viva),
Opera North and Bournemouth Symphony orchestra players.
An experienced recitalist and orchestral player she
regularly performs for music societies, music festivals
and at many of the UK’s principal concert halls,
including St Johns Smith square, The Barbican,
Banqueting House in Whitehall, The Queen Elizabeth hall
and the Edinburgh festival as a solo recitalist and as
part of a duo with Soprano Sarah-Jane Dale and Flautist
Nicholas Cartlidge . Her concert work has taken her to
the USA, Portugal, France, Russia, Poland, Scandinavia
and Belgium. This has also included many television and
radio interviews and broadcasts. These broadcasts have
included features on BBC radio stations , ITV 1, Florida
and Southern French radio stations, ‘Look East’ news
when attempting a world record to perform a hundred
concerts in a week with soprano Sarah-Jane Dale to raise
money for the Tadworth children’s trust, Children’s BBC
with two talented pupils and NBC TV in America.
She has recently been featured in ‘The Classical Music
Magazine’ regarding her harp and soprano work. Luisa has
released two harp and Soprano CD’s : ‘A Million Pearls’
and ‘The Nightingale’. Also a solo CD called ‘The Swan’.
Her latest solo album is to be released shortly called
‘The Circle of Light’, recorded for holistic and
relaxation purposes.
As well as a performing harpist she is a
popular tutor who enjoys working with children and
adults passing on her love of the harp. She is a popular
adjudicator for festival because of her natural rapport
with people and her positive approach. She is the
founder and director of the International harp ensemble
which currently has thirty members. They have recently
performed at the Barbican, The Royal Albert Hall and
venues throughout the South East and the Midlands. She
has also led them on many successful concert tours to
Belgium, South of France and Portugal and Wales They
were featured on ‘The Songs of Praise’ in February 2007.
She also has many private pupils and is now harp tutor
at The Royal Holloway University, St George’s Chapel -
Windsor Castle school, St Georges Ascot, and Wellington
College.
Future projects include a debut recording of Einaudi’s
piano works arranged for harp, recitals at the London
Banqueting house-Whitehall Palace. |
