We are deeply honored to be included in an elite roster of performers affiliated with Camac Harps at next weekend’s Camac Festival, November 3-5. We will be performing a 30-minute set of new music, including pieces by Russell Nadel, June Violet Aino, and Rachel Brandwein, on Friday night’s (November 3) 7:30pm concert alongside the young celebrated harp soloist Janice Hur and the world-famous harpist Isabelle Moretti.

The entire festival is FREE to attend, courtesy of Camac Harps, and is held at the Sheraton Suites Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia. If you’d like to come, there is still room for you! Please RSVP to the Virginia Harp Center, who is graciously co-sponsoring the festival.

We are delighted to be returning for a second season as an ensemble-in-residence at Connecticut Summerfest in Hartford, CT! We had a great time collaborating with the festival’s composers last year and look forward to a similarly rewarding and fruitful time this season.

Our opening concert on Friday, June 16 highlights four contemporary compositions for harp and horn with vivid literary connections: Roland, by Michael Weinstein-Reiman; Mask of the Red Death, by S. Beth May; In the Vicinity of Asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330, by June Violet Aino; and AOIDOI: An Odyssey for Horn and Harp, by Lothar Klein.

We will also be performing premieres of new works by Connecticut Summerfest composers Patrick Holcomb, Joshua Sparkman, and Jonathan Newmark in an evening of premieres on Tuesday, June 21.

Please come join us for any of these concerts if you are in the Hartford area this week! We would love to see you at and after the concerts. (As an added incentive, there may be amazing local ice cream served afterwards!).

All performances are in Berkman Recital Hall at the Hartt School at 8:00pm and are free to the public.

We are very excited and honored to be performing a 30-minute recital at the first DC-area Camac Harp Festival this November! We will be performing on the same larger concert program as Isabelle Moretti on Friday, November 3.

Thanks to Camac Harps for the invitation! We can’t wait to share some fresh chamber music with the DC-area, and to showcase how Colleen’s Camac harp in action.

Unfortunately, due to an unforeseen and unavoidable family situation, we have had to postpone the premieres of CCSU faculty works scheduled for March 7 and 9 until later this fall. CCSU has been wonderfully accommodating and helpful and we are confident that we will be able to finish this important part of our residency in early September. Stay tuned for announcements of the new dates for the premieres of pieces by Dr. Charles Menoche and Dr. Brian Kershner.

Update: We will be performing works by Drs. Menoche and Kershner at CCSU on Tuesday and Thursday, September 19 and 21! Event information has been updated on our calendar page.

We are fresh off an invigorating week of working with three very talented student composers at CCSU! It is always a whirlwind experience to learn and workshop entirely new music, and we spent a good amount of our “winter break” between the fall and spring teaching semesters learning, editing, and collaborating long-distance not only with each other but with each composer. It was such a delight to finally meet the composers at CCSU this week! Their pieces were all very different in a way that made for an exciting program. We were also thrilled to perform with CCSU horn professor Barbara Hill; thanks to Barbara for joining us for Nate Pawelek’s two-horns one-harp piece!

With CCSU music faculty and student composers. Pictured left to right: Brian Kershner, Ethan Sadoian, Nathaniel Schull, June Violet Aino, Charles Menoche

Enjoy these pictures from the open rehearsal and concert! We will also be posting videos of their pieces on YouTube.