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Elizabeth Jaxon - American harpist, director of the DHF World Harp Competition and member of the band Atlantic Harp Duo; Maria Johansdotter (fl. 1706) - Swedish harpist, folk music player and parish clerk, put on trial for homosexuality and for posing as a man; Claire Jones - Welsh harpist; Edward Jones (1752–1824) - Welsh harpist and ...
Welsh classical harpists (6 P) F. Welsh folk harpists (6 P) Pages in category "Welsh harpists" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Robin Huw Bowen (born 1957) [1] is a player of the Welsh triple harp, known in Welsh as Telyn Deires (English: Three-row Harp),. [2] He was awarded the Glyndŵr Award in 2000. [3]
Catrin Ana Finch is a Welsh harpist, arranger and composer. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004 [1] and is visiting professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Finch has given recitals at venues throughout the world.
The triple harp is a type of multi-course harp employing three parallel rows of strings instead of the more common single row. One common version is the Welsh triple harp (Welsh: telyn deires), used today mainly among players of traditional Welsh folk music.
See: Telyn harps The harp is the national instrument of Wales, with an unbroken line of harpers reaching back to at least the 11th century.Little is known of the origins of these early instruments, although small details such as poems are recorded, decrying the use of the new-fangled gut strings, as opposed to the traditional strings of plaited horse hair.
Pugh Evans began taking harp lessons at age six. [1]Pugh Evans began attending the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2016, graduating in 2020. [1] [2] While at the college, she won the 2019 RWCMD Mansel Thomas Prize, the 2019 RWCMD McGrenery Prize for Chamber Music, and the 2020 Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize for most outstanding instrumentalist. [2]
Nansi Richards – a triple harp player; Robin Huw Bowen – a triple harp player; Ceri Rhys Matthews – a multi-instrumentalist, plays the pibgorn or Welsh bagpipes, wooden flute, and others; Fernhill – a folk band, that features Ceri Rhys Matthews and often employs the pibgorn