Category: 2022 Festival

The 42nd Edinburgh International Harp Festival will take place from the 7th -11th April, in George Watson’s College, Edinburgh. We can’t wait to welcome you back to our wonderfully friendly in-person festival. We will also be hosting a small number of courses on zoom.

 We’ll be updating this post daily from Saturday the 10th December with who you can expect to see performing and tutoring at the festival!

• Our box office will open in January.
• Full information on all concerts/courses/workshops will be available in January.

2023 PERFORMERS:

• KIM ROBERTSON (USA)
• MICHAEL ROONEY (IRELAND)
• GILLIAN FLEETWOOD (SCOTLAND
• AILIE ROBERTSON (SCOTLAND)
• DRÅM: Erik Ask-Upmark & Anna Rynefors (SWEDEN)
• EVA CURTH (GERMANY)
• GWEN MÀIRI (WALES/SCOTLAND)
• NA CLÀRSIREAN (SCOTLAND)
• HARPA (USA)
• MUSIC GENERATION HARP COLLECTIVE (IRELAND)
• NEIL WOOD (SCOTLAND)
• RUTH KEGGIN & RACHEL HAIR (ISLE OF MAN & SCOTLAND)
• HEAL & HARROW: Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl (SCOTLAND)
• LUNE BLEUE, featuring Clotilde Trouillaud (BRITTANY)
• GRACE STEWART-SKINNER (SCOTLAND)

2023 COURSE TUTORS

*Course titles, content, level and schedule will be released in 2023

4 DAY COURSES

(90mins per day, Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue)

• AILIE ROBERTSON
• CLOTILDE TROUILLAUD
• CORRINA HEWAT
• ELEANOR HETHERINGTON
• ELINOR EVANS
• ERIK ASK-UPMARK
• EVA CURTH
• FIONA RUTHERFORD
• GWEN MAIRI
• HEATHER YULE
• KIM ROBERTSON
• NEIL WOOD
• PATSY SEDDON
• RACHEL HAIR
• RACHEL NEWTON
• WENDY STEWART

WEEKEND COURSES

(2x 90mins per day, Sat/Sun)

• CHARLOTTE PETERSEN
• MICHAEL ROONEY

ZOOM COURSES

(90mins per day, Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue)

• CHEYENNE BROWN
• FIONA RUTHERFORD
• GILLIAN FLEETWOOD
• GWEN MAIRI
• NEIL WOOD

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

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)

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:

• Monday 31st Jan: We begin our daily announcements letting you know the fantastic artists and tutors who will be appearing at this years festival – check back here to see who the latest is!
• Thursday 10th February: Our box office will open for all in-person and on demand EIHF ’22 events.
• Friday 8th- 11th April: The 41st Edinburgh International Harp Festival.Iin-person at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh and online to the world. 

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:

• Adrien Chevallier
• Ben Creighton Griffiths
• Bill Taylor
• Cheyenne Brown
• Cormac de Barra
• Corrina Hewat
• Doimnic Mac Giolla Bride
• Elinor Evans
• Fraya Thomsen
• Gabriella Dall’Olio
• Gillian Fleetwood
• Heather Downie
• Heather Yule
• Isobel Mieras
• Neil Wood
• Rachel Hair
• Savourna Stevenson
• Siobhan Armstrong
• Tristan Le Govic
• Wendy Stewart