We have some news for you … our 2023 Edinburgh International Harp Festival dates are now CONFIRMED, and we will be celebrating 4 days and 5 nights of all things harp from:
FRIDAY 7 – TUESDAY 11 APRIL
So put them in your diary and as we can’t wait to see you again for our next festival at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh!
IMPORTANT NEWS –
We’re extending viewing access to allow you more time to enjoy (again and again!) our wonderful concerts and workshops that we filmed for you at the 2022 Edinburgh International Harp Festival.
You’ll now be able to watch them until midnight on the 14th of May.
f you’ve yet to purchase access to view our films you can continue to do so at our Box Office until midnight on the 30th of April.
? Have you been having trouble accessing the films? Remember to check out our Attending Online Help page.
It’s now over a week since we said our farewells at the 41st EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL HARP FESTIVAL. It was so wonderful to be reunited with you all and celebrate all things harp.
We hosted our first ever “hybrid” festival with online courses, concerts and workshops as well as our in-person festival at our new venue George Watson’s College.
With so many “firsts” we’d love to know your thoughts on this year’s festival. We read every piece of feedback and your thoughts will help shape our plans for future festivals.
We’ve put together a very short survey of 6 questions that we’d love you to take a few minutes to fill in.
To access the feedback survey click HERE
We’re gradually adding a wonderful collection of photos taken at the 2022 festival by our official festival photographer Chantal Guevara.
You can view them on our Facebook page HERE (you don’t need a Facebook account to view our page)
We’ve still more to add so keep checking back!
If you attended the EIHF in person for a concert or workshop you may have spotted an email from us like this in your inbox over the last few days … that’s because we’ve been busy processing your details to allow you online access to rewatch the concerts and workshops that you attended HOORAY!
You can rewatch them again and again until midnight on the 30th of April.
To access these films you need to click the Login to my wallet button in the email you received, login to your harp festival account (with the email you purchased your ticket with) and click “online events”. More info and HELP on how to do this is on the Attending Online page of this website.
Remember if you didn’t attend but would still like to view some of the amazing concerts and workshops you can still purchase access to these via the what’s on page (Due to the admin involved, there will be a wait of of up to 24hrs in accessing these films)
Due to the administration that’s involved in our online zoom courses: SALES FOR ONLINE COURSES WILL CLOSE AT 10:00am (BST/UK time), on Wednesday 6th April.
Sales of all in-person courses AND all workshops/concerts (both in person and online/on-demand) will still continue.
We are VERY excited to announce that the EIHF Late Night Sessions are back for 2022.
We will be hosting sessions at our wonderful new venue of George Watson’s College after our concerts in the bar area.
To download our session tunebook click HERE.
The Clarsach Society and the Edinburgh International Harp Festival are proud to announce that the 2021 winner of the Iain Macleòid Young Composer Award is Rhiannon Ramsey-Brimberg.
We’re overjoyed that Rhiannon’s composition will be part of our festival this year.
Read on to discover more about her…
Rhiannon Ramsey-Brimberg is a lever harpist from Stonington, Connecticut, U.S.A.. While earning a Performance degree from Berklee College of Music, she studied under harpists such as Maeve Gilchrist and Mairi Chaimbeul. Rhiannon will be attending the University of Limerick in September for an MA in Irish Music Studies. Rhiannon (stage name, Rhiannon Skye) began playing the harp for others soon after she began her lessons nine years ago, and has only recently begun to write for the harp. Her goal with each piece is to tell a story, while still remaining true to the genre’s stylistic origins.
This year’s festival will be hybrid with separate in-person and online zoom courses, in-person/filmed workshops and in-person/filmed concerts.
We’ll be updating this post daily from Monday the 31st January with who you can expect to see performing and tutoring at the festival!
KEY DATES:
OUR LIST SO FAR….
SAVOURNA STEVENSON & STEVE KETTLEY (Scotland) – Performing as a duo on harp and sax.
TRISTAN LE GOVIC (Brittany) – Breton harp
CORRINA HEWAT’S “THE SONG of the OAK and the IVY” – another chance to hear the EIHF (2010) 80th/30th Festival commission), composed by Corrina Hewat and performed live by Corrina, Bill Taylor, Heather Downie, Tristan le Govic, Mary Macmaster and Wendy Stewart.
WENDY STEWART (Scotland) – Solo harp/voice
CALUM & MÀIRI MACLEOD (Scotland) – Brother & sister duo
MAEVE GILCHRIST (Scotland/USA) – with a *NEW* commission celebrating the 40/90 joint anniversary of The Clarsach Society and the EIHF
GABRIELLA DALL’OLIO (Italy/England) – Pedal harp
FRAYA THOMSEN (Scotland) – Winner of the 2021 Princess Margaret of the Isles Prize for Senior Clarsach
TRANSATLANTIC HOT CLUB (Wales/US) – Jazz trio with Ben Creighton Griffiths on Harp, Adrien Chevalier on Violin and Ashley John Long on Bass.
A NEW GENERATION: ROMY WYMER (Netherlands), PHOENIX ZHANG (Scotland), STEPHANIE HUMPHREYS (Scotland)
CORMAC DE BARRA (Ireland) – Irish Harp
SIOBHÀN ARMSTRONG (Ireland) with the Donegal singer DOIMNIC MAC GIOLLA BRÍDE
Our EIHF 2022 tutors are:
We are planning our 2022 festival as a 4-night, 3-day celebration of all things harp, taking place between Friday the 8th April & Monday the 11th April.
We hope to be able to offer you a hybrid festival with a selection of courses, concerts and workshops on offer, online and in-person in our fabulous NEW VENUE…
Yes, you heard right! We are MOVING and we can’t wait to welcome you to the stunning surroundings of GEORGE WATSON’S COLLEGE, on Colinton Road.
We are sure you’ll appreciate Watson’s:
Whilst the school will be unable to be offer accommodation during the festival we’ll be sure to let you know what options there are nearby in the coming months.
If you’d like to get a feel for the new venue, you can visit their website and watch a video showing the campus, HERE
We’ll be letting you know more details about EIHF 2022 over the coming months but rest assured the safety and health of our EIHF visitors, artists, tutors and volunteers are at the forefront of all our plans.
