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Trained classically, but with a passion for traditional music, Sunita has become one of the leading Celtic harpists of today. She has been teaching and arranging harp music for over twenty-five years and her numerous books of arrangements have become standards for teachers, students, and performers.
Originally from Minnesota and now a resident of Israel, Sunita's life is filled with music, travel and adventure. She is a featured performer and presenter at the major folk harp festivals in the USA and Canada, and also travels to Europe and South Africa.
Sunita has a masters degree from the Manhattan School of Music, is a certified clinical musician and works as a therapeutic harpist in two Israeli hospitals. Sunita also tours with her fiddle and harp duo, Tzalool in addition to her busy schedule of performing, teaching, recording, and producing new books of arrangements.
For more about Sunita Staneslow visit:
www.sunitaharp.com
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Greg is a world-class harpist whose aggressive style of playing redefines
the listener’s concept of harp performance. His ministry has been
a mainstay in American churches for twenty-five years. Greg’s innovative
style draws the listener into the very presence of our Lord, from tender
worship to foot tapping, hand clapping, jazz-styled praise. His love for
the Lord and his appreciation of his deliverance from many years of addiction
to drugs, alcohol, and the occult give him a genuine love for others that
is expressed
powerfully through his ministry. Greg presents a heartfelt testimony to which
today’s hurting people can truly relate. He has multiple recordings to
his credit and has appeared at many major conferences, conventions, churches,
and Christian colleges.
He has been married to his wife Becky, for twenty-five years, and they have
three children, Matthew, Erik and Bree.
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Angi has been a musician for most of her life. She studied the piano beginning at the age of 6 and was a church musician for many years. During her school years she played a number of other instruments, including the flute, oboe, and guitar. In 1989, her husband surprised her with a harp, and lessons, for their 10th wedding anniversary. It was at this point that her life as a musician took a meaningful turn. With the harp, Angi realized that she would have the opportunity to quietly serve others with the peaceful and unique sound that comes from its strings. Almost from the beginning, it was her desire to play the harp in hospitals.
Angi has recorded four CDs entitled "Simply the Harp": I – Peaceful Songs, II – Lullabies & Tranquil Songs, III – Contemplative Songs of Faith, and IV – Quiet Songs of Christmas. She has also published over 80 sheet music arrangements and 5 books for harp.
Angi Bemiss is a Certified Music Practitioner, having graduated from the Music for Healing & Transition Program in January, 1998. One of Angi’s favorite quotes is “Life without music would be a mistake,” and she has found the experience of playing the harp in medical facilities to be rewarding in ways that are beyond description. Truly, her life has been blessed by the experience of providing music for the patients, their families and visitors, and the hospital staff.
For more about Angi Bemiss visit:
http://www.simplytheharp.com/
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Verlon's dream of playing the harp began less than 2 decades ago when she discovered a real calling from the Lord. She frequently comments how the harp has truly changed her life! Realizing the harp's healing capacity, she began using her God-given gifts to minister to the sick and dying.
Verlon is a trained Certified Music Practitioner (CMP) where she has been on staff as Healing Artist Specialist at Orlando Health Hospital for 10 years. Patients in ICU, Palliative Care, Progressive Care, Moms in Labor, ER, Post-Surgical and Infusion Therapy as well as staff and families all benefit from the calming effects of the harp music. De-stressing occurs as one listens to the soothing harp tones. The rewards of playing for others in stressful settings cannot be measured, she often proclaims. Her heart to minister to others has been notated in articles nationwide.
Verlon holds a B.A. in piano and voice and is a classically trained harpist who teaches at Saint Andrews Music Conservatory as well as in her home studio. She has recorded three harp CD's, arranges her own music and plays regularly with her church orchestra.
Visit www.verloneason.com to read more about her.
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Laura Logan has served on the Texas Christian University School of Music faculty since 2001, where she teaches harp and harp pedagogy, coaches the TCU Harp Ensemble and is director of the TCU Summer Harp Workshop. She is founder, director and member of the Octavia Harp Ensemble, performing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and beyond for the past 20 years. A highly regarded freelance harpist, Logan currently serves as Principal Harp with the Lewisville Lake Symphony. She held the position of Principal Harp with the Richardson Symphony Orchestra from 1990 – 2010 as well as Principal Harp in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic from 1995 - 1997.
Active as a camp clinician specializing in harp ensemble repertoire, Logan was founder and director of the popular HarpFire summer camp, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2010. In 2011, she directed one of two Institute Ensembles at the 9th Summer Institute of the American Harp Society. She has served as a long time board member of the AHS in Dallas chapter. In addition to her duties at TCU, Logan maintains an active private studio, teaching both Suzuki and traditional students.
Logan considers her most significant lifetime achievement to be her two sons, Ethan and Luke, who have fallen asleep to the sound of harp music their entire lives and never once complained. |
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Joanna Mell is an accomplished performer on both orchestral (pedal) and Celtic harps. She is classically trained in harp, piano and voice. She received her musical training at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Moravian College. She also studied the harp privately with Alison Simpson.
Joanna first became aware of the powerful effects of therapeutic harp music during the illness and death of a close friend in 1990. She discovered that music is able to reach into the soul and spirit long after the physical body with its limited capacities and senses has deteriorated. Since 1994, she has been working with Grand View Hospital Hospice in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, using her harp and voice as channels of God's love, compassion and healing power. Joanna learned that only by completely yielding oneself to the Holy Spirit can the musician become "God's harp", playing the music of the highest order. In 2007, Joanna became the founder and director of the Heart of God Foundation, home of the Heart of God Harpers and Heart of God Harper Training Program for therapeutic harpists.
Joanna uses her musical gifts to bring healing to those who are suffering in mind, body, and spirit, as well as to ease the transition of the soul from this world to the eternal. Joanna is a full member of the International Order of Saint Luke the Physician, a network of Christians practicing healing in Christ's name.
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more about Joanna Mell visit:
www.joannamell.com
www.heartofgodfoundation.com
www.orderofstluke.org
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Anna Vorhes teaches harp, at Augustana college. She is the principal harpist with the Sioux City Symphony and is a member of the South Dakota Symphony. She has performed with numerous community, college and secondary school choirs throughout the region.
Ms. Vorhes spent more than a decade as a South Dakota Arts Council touring artist. She organizes a harp ensemble concert every other year, with 25 to 40 harpists participating. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., with majors in music and psychology and a master of music degree in harp performance from Dr. Carrol McLaughlin at the University of Arizona.
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