So, You’ve Always Wanted to Play the Harp?
AAC8006 This course introduces students to the most important basic principles of playing a lever or folk harp. Folk Harp Ensemble AAC8007 is designed to provide harp students with an opportunity for learning new repertoire from the traditional folk idiom as well as early music literature in a supportive ensemble environment.
Christine Van Arsdale was classically trained as a harpist at Queens College and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and received her master’s from Winthrop University. She has gone on to become a folk harp enthusiast and relentlessly embraces new and fascinating aspects of the harp world, such as in her travels to Spain to study the ancient, cross-strung Spanish harp, or her recent training in philosophical performance practices with jazz harpist Deborah Henson-Conant.
