Festival Events

Guide to Course Levels & Teaching Method

Course Levels

  • Beginner: You have no experience of playing the harp.
  • Post-Beginner: You took last year’s beginners’ class, have had relatively few lessons and/or require help with basic technique.
  • Elementary: You can already perform simple tunes, require further help in consolidating basic technique and wish to work slowly and carefully.
  • Intermediate: You already have good technique and can work at a moderate pace.
  • Advanced: Your technique is good and you wish to stretch yourself.
  • Mixed Ability: For all levels, except Beginner or Post-beginner.

For further advice about course levels please contact us on +44 (0) 131 445 2022

Teaching Method

  • E: teaching will be by ear with no written music given out
  • E+M: teaching will be by ear with written music given out during or at the end of the class or course
  • M: teaching will be from written music
  • M+E: written music will be given at the start of each course. Teaching methods will be sympathetic to all levels of skill in reading music.

Wednesday April 4th

The Kora – its place in traditional and contemporary music / Lamine Cissokho

Start: Wednesday April 4th, 11:15 am
End: Wednesday April 4th, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W14
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Tuesday April 3rd

Making a Concerto / Sally Beamish

Start: Tuesday April 3rd, 11:15 am
End: Tuesday April 3rd, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W11
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Modern, Early and Hybrid Harps: how they can be played / Dimitri Boekhoorn

Start: Tuesday April 3rd, 11:15 am
End: Tuesday April 3rd, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W12
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Harmony Singing / Corrina Hewat

Start: Tuesday April 3rd, 11:15 am
End: Tuesday April 3rd, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W13
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Monday April 2nd

Chinese Zheng: sound history, development and techniques / Yi Dong

Start: Monday April 2nd, 11:15 am
End: Monday April 2nd, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W8
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Pipes of their own sort / Andy May and Tiarnán Ó Duinchinn

Start: Monday April 2nd, 11:15 am
End: Monday April 2nd, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W9
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The science of strings and soundboards / Murray Campbell

Start: Monday April 2nd, 11:15 am
End: Monday April 2nd, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W10
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Sunday April 1st

Experimental Harp / Rhodri Davies

Start: Sunday April 1st, 11:15 am
End: Sunday April 1st, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W5
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Anne-Marie and Cormac

How to Duet better/Anne-Marie O’ Farrell and Cormac De Barra

Start: Sunday April 1st, 11:15 am
End: Sunday April 1st, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W6
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Gaelic song / James Graham

Start: Sunday April 1st, 11:15 am
End: Sunday April 1st, 12:15 pm
Cost: £8 each or 4 for £28
Event Code:
W7
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