Patrick Ball
Patrick Ball is one of the premier Celtic harp players in the world and a captivating spoken word artist. In playing the ancient, legendary brass-strung harp of Ireland with its crystalline, bell-like voice, and in performing marvellous tales of wit and enchantment, he not only brings new life to two cherished traditions, but blends them [...]
Cormac De Barra
Cormac De Barra is the third generation of harpers in his family. He first studied Irish harp with his grandmother Róisín Ní Shé in Dublin and went on to study concert harp in the USA. Cormac has recorded numerous albums of traditional music including Barcó with his brothers Fionán and Éamonn, Tarraing Téad with fiddler [...]
Sally Beamish
After moving to Scotland in 1989, Sally Beamish’s career as a composer began to flourish. Her orchestral output is considerable, including two symphonies, and the concerto form is a continuing source of inspiration to her, with requests from many soloists of international standing. Sally often draws on Scottish inspiration in her work, and collaborates regularly [...]
Dimitri Boekhoorn
Dimitri Boekhoorn, musician and former teacher in Celtic studies, comes from the Netherlands and now lives in Brittany. He plays traditional Celtic and Early Music as well as his own compositions on harps, flutes, whistles and bagpipe. Dimitri is principally self-taught using the method of plucking the wire-strung and other harps with his nails like [...]
Alina Bzhezhinska
Alina is one of Scotland’s leading educators and performs. Originally from Poland/Ukraine, Alina studied at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and The University of Arizona, USA. She has performed with many major European orchestras including the Young World Symphony Orchestra, the National Opera in Warsaw and Scottish Opera and is a member [...]
Murray Campbell
Murray Campbell was born and brought up in the Highlands of Scotland. He is now Senior Professorial Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, where he directs the Musical Acoustics Research Group. He has carried out research into the acoustics of both stringed and wind instruments, and is co-author [...]
Edmar Castaneda
Edmar Castaneda was born in Colombia and since his move to the United States of America in 1994, has quite literally taken New York and the world stage by storm with the sheer force of his virtuosic command of the harp. Edmar’s journey traces back to humble and altogether inspiring beginnings. The son of a [...]
Lamine Cissokho
Lamine grew up in Casamance, a region in Southern Senegal well-known for its rich culture of musical traditions. He is a descendant of the Mandingue griot family, famous musicians whose traditions date back to the 15th century. Family members help preserve their inheritance by passing down their musical talents to the next generation. Lamine and [...]
Margaret Collin
Margaret is an experienced teacher who has worked with students aged six to sixty plus at all levels. She studied clarsach with Isobel Mieras and Sanchia Pielou and performed traditional music as a self-accompanied singer. For the last ten years she has taught at Bun-sgoil Croise na Cise/Tollcross Primary and James Gillespie’s High School in [...]
Tana Collins
Tana has been a fully qualified Massage Therapist and member of the Scottish Massage Therapists’ Organisation since 2000 and has been the EIHF’s Masseuse since 2002. During this time, Tana has built up a hugely successful client base, working in a number of businesses and from her home in Edinburgh. Tana uses massage as a [...]
Marianne Cranston
Marianne is a qualified member of the Dutch Societies of Holistic Pulsing and Astrology, with wide experience of working in Europe and the UK. Her goal as a spiritual astrologer and holistic pulser is to help clients become attuned with their inner self, to help build up self-esteem, trust and self-belief. View related events.
Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies was born in 1971 in Aberystwyth, Wales and now lives in Gateshead in the northeast of England. He plays harp, electric harp, live-electronics and builds wind, water and fire harp installations. His regular groups include: a duo with John Butcher, The Sealed Knot, a trio with David Toop and Lee Patterson, Common Objects, [...]
Yi Dong
Classical zheng performer, Dong Yi, is the most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese musical instrument of her generation. Since giving her first public performance at the age of 8 and studying under many of the most distinguished teachers in colleges and conservatoires throughout China, her career has taken her to USA, Europe, Japan and [...]
Susan Enochsson
Susan Enochsson’s car would be full of harps almost any given day. Free-lance harpist in southern Sweden and part-time Instructor of Harp at Music School of Kristianstad, her passion is arranging Scandinavian tunes for solo harp or harp ensemble. Susan is one of three founders of Öresund Harp Weekend, in the Öresund region of Sweden/Denmark, [...]
Gwenan Gibbard
Gwenan, from the Ll?n peninsula of North West Wales, stands at the forefront of today’s thriving Welsh traditional music scene. Brought up in a Welsh speaking family in which singing and Welsh culture in general played an integral part, she graduated in music from the University of Wales Bangor, and having gained a masters degree [...]
James Graham
James, from Lochinver, competed at Mods from nine years old. He was inspired by his great Aunt Seordag Murray, a native Gaelic speaker from Achilitibuie. James graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2003 with an Honours degree in Scottish Music. In 2004 he won the BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician [...]
Kate Gray
From a young age at junior school, Kate loved ceilidh dancing and was from a Scottish dancing family in the North East of England. She has taught around the world from Russia to Japan, America to Australia as well as throughout the UK. She is pleased to be asked back to teach ceilidh dancing at [...]
Rachel Hair
Rachel is a prominent performer in the Scottish Traditional Music scene and having just released her third album, is a much sought after performer and tutor of the harp. A first class honours music graduate, she has toured extensively throughout Europe both as a soloist and with her acclaimed trio “The Rachel Hair Trio” and [...]
Naomi Harling
Naomi has been playing the harp from a very young age. Over the years she has become an accomplished performer and teacher for people of all ages, and enjoys teaching and performing thoroughly. She has had success in many competitions in the past, nationally and internationally, and has been a finalist in the BBC’s Young [...]
Corrina Hewat
Corrina Hewat’s style of teaching and performing has developed over the years, soaking up the music around her, and incorporating this into her joy of playing. She runs a 22-piece Scottish big band “The Unusual Suspects” having released their second album ‘Big Like This’ in January 2011 to critical acclaim. She works with singers Karine [...]
John Hoare
John Hoare has been making harps for 45 years, working on the design and manufacturing of lever harp and pedal harps and the restoration of the pedal harps from the single action to the 19c concert harps. He has experience of both the modern materials and techniques and the historic methods. John was a founder [...]
Andy May
Andy May is an award-winning Northumbrian piper and piano player who works with Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies, UK/Finnish/Danish group Baltic Crossing, and his own Andy May Quartet amongst others. Andy became a full-time musician in 2002 and splits his time between playing, making pipes, and teaching. View related events.
Isobel Mieras
As one of Scotland’s most experienced and successful teachers, Isobel has taught and influenced many of today’s best known Scottish harp players. One of her greatest joys is working with and arranging or composing music for harp ensembles of all abilities. For many years she has worked with Na Clarsairean, the Scottish Harp Orchestra, which [...]
Catriona McKay
Catriona McKay is a leading light of the Celtic Harp. A Scottish musician and composer of integrity and depth who has a daring rhythmic style developed through her playing with fiddle genius, Chris Stout. They explore sounds that connect and challenge through a dynamic and adventurous dialogue of their native Scottish music. Her exceptional inventiveness [...]
Rob MacKillop
Rob MacKillop is an Edinburgh-based performer and teacher of lute, guitar, banjo and ukulele. He has many published editions, including four ukulele books, each with an accompanying CD. View related events.
Màiri Macleod
As a harpist, teacher and composer, Màiri’s portfolio is already quickly expanding to cover many instrumental and choral genres. Having trained classically at the RNCM but originally growing up in the traditional culture of Gaelic music, her knowledge of repertoire in a variety of areas is extensive and provides an exciting range of inspiration for [...]
Rachel Newton
Rachel Newton was born in Edinburgh, where she first began learning the harp with Charlotte Petersen at Tollcross Primary School’s Gaelic Unit. Rachel later went on to study with Isobel Mieras at the City of Edinburgh Music school and then with Corrina Hewat on the Folk and Traditional Music Degree at Newcastle University. Since graduating, [...]
Anne-Marie O’Farrell
Leading Irish harp recitalist, Anne-Marie O’Farrell is especially noted for her unique levering techniques and expansion of the repertoire. Her albums include Heads & Harps, Harping Bach to Carolan, The Jig’s Up, My Lagan Love and Just So Bach. An honours UCD graduate, with a first class honours MA in Composition from NUI Maynooth; she [...]
Tiárnan Ó Duinchinn
Tiarnán started playing the uilleann pipes when he was around nine years of age. He won 4 Fleadh Ceoil (1st place) All-Ireland titles –and two Oireachtas titles. He toured with Máíre Ní Bhraonáin (Clannad) from 1997-2001 and recorded two albums with her. He has recorded with Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Sinead O Connor, Damien Dempsey, [...]
Charlotte Petersen
Charlotte is one of Scotland’s most talented composers and arrangers of traditional music for the clarsach. Her compositions have delighted audiences around the world and have been recorded as soundtracks for several BBC radio plays. Charlotte has published a series of books containing her own arrangements and teaches clarsach at the City of Edinburgh Music [...]
Hannah Phillips
Hannah Phillips is a Scottish and pedal harpist based in Glasgow. She studied at the RSAMD graduating with a first class BMus (hons) degree and a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction. She won the Non Pedal Harp Competition at the Wales International Harp Festival 2010 and was a finalist in the 2010 BBC Radio Scotland Young [...]
Fiona Rutherford
Fiona is from Edinburgh. She learned to play the harp with Sophie Askew, Isobel Mieras and Savourna Stevenson. She studied at The City of Edinburgh Music School and went on to gain degrees in Composition at Dartington College of Arts and Edinburgh University. She has written for theatre and film, including acclaimed feature films ‘The [...]
Patsy Seddon
Patsy Seddon is well known to EIHF having been involved every year except the first. She is also known for her innovative approach to the harp through her work with Sprangeen, Sileas, Clan Alba and, particularly, The Poozies. She likes to explore the possibilities of sound, rhythm, melody and harmony pushing boundaries wherever called for. [...]
Nadine Stah White
US expatriate Nadine Stah White has been playing the autoharp for forty years. She has extensive experience in organising and leading autoharp workshops and was the founding secretary of UK’s autoharp society ‘UK Autoharps’. She is also an accomplished performer and prize-winning competitor. Nadine runs a monthly autoharp gathering from her home near Whithorn in [...]
Wendy Stewart
Wendy’s relaxed but incisive style of teaching brings praise and results in equal measure. Through her layered arrangements and measured pace, she can bring a group of mixed ability learners together in confident, relaxed harmony. Over the past year she has produced two new music books and CDs, taught lots of lovely people and become [...]
Bill Taylor
Bill is a specialist in the performance of ancient harp music from Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and is one of very few players investigating these repertoires on medieval gut-strung harps, wire-strung clarsachs and harps with buzzing bray pins. He teaches for Ardival harps, leads classes through Feis Rois and is a guest lecturer at the [...]
Heather Yule
Heather is an established harp teacher in Scotland. She has taught and performed on the clarsach throughout Scotland and at various events in the USA and Carp Breton, Canada. She also performs in Europe and North America as a traditional storyteller, combining harp music and stories in a unique way. View related events.
Tai Chi
The International Taoist Tai Chi Society is a global volunteer organisation with memberassociations in more than 25 countries around the world. In keeping with the aims and objectives laid down by the Society’s founder, Master Moy Lin-shin, instructors are not paid for teaching, must attend regular training workshops at their expense and meet annual reaccreditation [...]