Maria Trevor | Maria Duhova Trevor, Harpist

February 2020

Feb. 2020 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, First I want tell you that there is no Harp and Healing tonight. Never in the last 8 years since we started Harp and Healing have I had to reschedule! Well, my luck ran out this month as I am needed for rehearsals and concert in Springfield to play a new Oratorio. But we will still hold the service at the later date - 3th Tuesday this month February 18th. But let’s start in order at the beginning of the month and let me invite you to some events and concerts I am part of this month: Tomorrow - February 5th, I will be playing in Springfield with the Drury - Civic orchestra for the premiere of a new choral-orchestra work by award winning composer Carlyle Sharpe - Of These Years I Sing, featuring the Drury Chorale and mezzo soprano Ann Marie Daehn. Concert is at 7.30pm, Hammons hall. More info: https://www.springfieldmo.org/events/46451/springfield-drury-civic-orchestra-to-perform-choral-orchestra-work-by-carlyle-sharpe On February 14th - I will be playing for Valentine’s dinner at the Old Hawthorne Club. It is a member only event, but I still want to share this as some of you might be members there and interested. I played there last year and the romantic atmosphere and dinner are wonderful. On February 15th I will be back in Springfield, playing with the Springfield Symphony. The concert is at 7.30 at the Hammons Hall. More information here: http://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/concerts/february/american-pictures As I mentioned earlier, Harp and Healing will be held this month on Tuesday February 18th at 5.30pm. Come and rejuvenate with the sound of live harp music and a selection of quiet prayers and reflections. Free...

February 4, 2020

January 2020

Jan. 2020 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I bring you best wishes for the New Year, let it be filled with good health, peace and happiness. I hope you had a nice Holiday season. I was very busy in December, with orchestra concerts,solo performances and my new CD promotion that I really welcomed the downtime with my family and took 2 weeks off completely to be just a mom and a wife. :-) January is a fairly quiet month for me, focused on teaching, planning, booking and updating my website, YouTube etc. That said, here are a few events I would like to invite you to: Harp and Healing tomorrow at 5.30pm at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. After our special event called Blue Christmas in December where we enjoyed painter Vesna Delevska live painting to music and word, we will be returning to our monthly quiet and contemplative services at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. Join us for 45 minutes of therapeutic harp music and inspirational word. This ecumenical service is free and open for everyone to attend. More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/481485245888205/?ti=icl Studio Recital - every six months both my husband's cello students and my harp students perform at the joint Trevor Studio Recital. This is mainly for our studio families to see their children's progress in concert, but if you are interested, it is open to public. The date is this Saturday January 11th at 4pm at Broadway Christian Church. Wedding Expo - I will be one of the vendors at Super Wedding Show happening on January 19th between 12pm and 4pm at the Holiday Inn Executive...

January 7, 2020

December 2019

Dec. 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I hope you had blessed Thanksgiving spent with family! My family and I traveled to Chicago to spend time with friends. We had a wonderful time visiting the Science and industry museum and the Art Institute and just looking around! The final month of 2019 is here and I would like to invite you to the following events I am involved in this December: Blue Christmas, Tuesday December 3th, 5.30pm, Broadway Christian Church Sanctuary. This is our Christmas Harp and Healing special. December can be a wonderful month filled with joy and excitement with anticipation of Christmas, but for some this month is extra hard. The loss of a loved one, divorce, illness... If your pains and burdens seem especially heavy, join us for this solemn, reflective and meditative event. We will have live harp music, meditations of our ministers and a special guest artist from St.Louis Vesna Delevska live painting during the event. Free and open for all! More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/745984245813999/?ti=icl As you may know I have released a new album! It’s called Christmas Harp and it has my favorite Christmas tunes specially arranged for harp! I will be selling my CDs at every event this month, but CDs are also available at Clovers locations and The Music Suite locally. You can also listen, download or order them on my website or anywhere you go to for downloading music: https://mariaharp.com/cds1/ On December 5th at 6pm I have a solo concert in Jefferson City at Grace Episcopal Church. This concert will be a combination of Christmas music and classical and...

December 1, 2019

June 2019

June & July 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music,my June and July is filled with the Missouri Symphony concerts during Hot Summer Nights festival. I hope you can attend some of the following concerts. This newsletter is coming a few days into the festival, so 3 concerts are already gone, but there is one right this evening! For information and tickets go to: https://themosy.org/hot-summer-nights-2019/A Grand Night for Singing! June 8th, 8pm, Missouri Theatre The Missouri Symphony and Columbia Chorale welcomes Columbia’s own Melissa Bohon and friends in a semi-staged evening showcasing the best of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Including iconic moments from Oklahoma, Carousel, The Sound of Music and more. Great songs, choruses and dancing- it will truly be “Some Enchanted Evening!”Strike Up the Band! Take 2, June 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm, Lake Ozarks AmphitheaterJoin MSO for Take 2 of the ‘Strike Up the Band’ Community Concert at the beautiful Lake of the OzarksChamber Recital – June 10, June 10, 2019 at 7:00 pm, Broadway Christian Church Missouri Symphony Orchestra musicians perform in small groups with a wide range of repertoire from the baroque to the very newest works. While enjoying the superb acoustics of the Broadway Christian Church, the audience has a unique opportunity to get close to the musicians and meet with them after the concerts. Buster Keaton in: The General, June 12, 2019 at 7:00 pm, Missouri TheatreWhen Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines. Enjoy Buster Keaton’s 1926 American silent film comedy accompanied by the Missouri Symphony Orchestra.Dvorak and Brahms, June 15, 2019 at 7:30 pm, Missouri TheatreThe MSO...

June 1, 2019

May 2019

May 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I would love to invite you to the following events in May. Tomorrow, Friday May 2nd - Odyssey Chamber Music Series concert at 7pm at First Baptist Church downtown. I have been practicing for about a month now to polish the harp part for this special concert, I will be playing Cantilena and Scherzo by Gian Carlo Menotti for harp and string quartet with the Esterhazy string quartet. It has so many pedal changes it's unreal, but that stays hidden from your view! If you can, please join me! More information: https://www.odysseymissouri.org/ On Sunday May 5th at 7pm in the Missouri Theatre we have the final Missouri Symphony Conservatory Concert. This is a culmination of the semester's worth work for Junior Sinfonia, Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber Players. Two of my talented harp students will be performing with the orchestra. More information: http://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/ Tuesday, May 7th at 5.30pm at Broadway Christian Church - Sanctuary we will hold the final Harp and Healing of this season before we break for the summer. We decided to call it Spring renewal as everything around us in the nature is sprouting and giving us hope. To make it even more special, we will have a local artist Jenny McGee to live paint during the service and my husband Kirk will join me on a couple of pieces on cello. Pastor Terry Overfelt will have selected poetry and inspirational readings. More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/346748006200248/ Then next weekend I will be in Springfield playing with the Springfield Symphony. The concert is entirely...

May 1, 2019

April 2019

April 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I would like to invite you to the following events this month, although I will be playing more in Springfield than in Columbia! On April 2nd we hold Harp and Healing at 5.30 pm at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. This is a monthly service, free and open for all. Whether you are in need of any kind of healing, be it physical, spiritual, relational or just want to listen to relaxing live harp music and inspirational word by pastor Terry Overfelt - join is tonight! Tomorrow I am going back to Springfield for the rest of the week of rehearsals leading to the performance of Bernstein's opera Candide this Friday night with the Springfield Regional Opera. More info: https://www.sropera.org/ I will also be back there playing with the Springfield Symphony the following weekend, in concert on April 13th, Copland's Appalachian Spring on the program. More info: https://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/concerts/april/will-you-marry-me On April 17th at 6PM, my students and I are presenting our annual harp concert at Lenoir Woods, if you know any residents there, let them know! On April 28th, both my harp students and my husband's cello students will perform in a Studio recital at 3PM in the Sanctuary of Broadway Christian Church. This is for families mainly, but feel free to join us if you like! Taking a peak into May, I will be performing a chamber music piece on Odyssey Concert Series on May 3th More info: https://www.odysseymissouri.org/programs.html And we will have a final Harp and Healing of this season on Tuesday May 7th at 5.30PM. The...

April 1, 2019

March 2019

March 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, It's March and we still have snow on the ground around us. As much as I enjoyed this winter, I am ready for beautiful spring and looking forward to Spring Break at the end of this month. But before I head out of town late this month, there are several events and concerts I would like to invite you to. Tonight at 5.30pm, Loft of Broadway Christian Church - Harp and Healing, monthly service of live therapeutic harp music and inspirational words by Pastor Terry Overfelt. Free and open for all in need of healing, be it physical, emotional, relational, healing from grief. More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1111291372384383/?ti=icl I just had the privilege to present the harp and talk about Harp and Healing this morning to the Tuesday Club ( General Federation of Women's Clubs) What a wonderful group of ladies doing so many great things in our community! This coming Sunday, March 10th, 7.30pm at First Baptist Church I will join the Columbia Civic Orchestra in their Missouri Composers Project. The Columbia Chamber Choir joins the CCO to perform new works by Missouri composers,which are selected by a competitive process, during the seventh annual Missouri Composers Project. More information: http://cco.missouri.org/2018-2019-season.html On March 11th, I will join the Missouri Symphony to play 3th Grade concerts. This is the third year the Missouri Symphony has partnered with CPS and is providing 2 concerts in the morning and every third grader enrolled in CPS attends as part of the curriculum. While this is not open to...

March 1, 2019

February 2019

February 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, with the new month I would like to invite you to some events that I will participating in with my music. But first let me tell you about a few highlights from this past January. I enjoyed playing with the MU Wind Ensemble in concert in Saint Louis ( Touhill Center ) and at the Missouri Music Educators conference at the Lake ( Tan-Tar-A). While our church hosted the Room at the Inn ( homeless shelter) in January, I took my harp and played for the guests. I have done this annually for a few years now and both I and the guests enjoy the experience. We talk, and I play some songs and it's very special. Personally, I loved the snow and all the school days off, when life slows down, kids stay home from school and we can go sledding and build snowmen, I hope there is yet more to come! So here is my February Calendar: Tuesday 5th Harp and Healing, Broadway Christian Church, 5.30PM, Loft. Monthly service of meditative and therapeutic live harp music and inspirational word by Pastor Terry Overfelt intended for those in need of any kind of healing, be it physical, emotional or relational.Saturday 9th, Springfield Symphony Concert - Will You Be my Valentine, Hammons Hall, 7.30PM, Springfield MOTuesday 12th Harp Presentation for Kiwani Club, 12PM Broadway Hotel, Columbia, MOThursday 14th, Valentine's Day Dinner music, Club at Old Hawhthorne, 6PM - 9PM, Columbia, MO. Looking forward to performing here this year, dinner reservations...

February 1, 2019

January 2019

January 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of Harp music, Happy New Year! Hope this finds you well and rested after the Holidays. We had a wonderful time off with the kids, took time off from teaching and performing over Christmas and new Year with the exception of playing New Year's Eve dinner music at MU Club. December went by fast, Harp and Healing on December 4th saw about 150 people when artist Vesna Delevska created a beautiful painting during this hour of slow and soothing Christmas Carols. We had a anonymous donor come forward and buy the painting for BBC. So it will be on display for future Harp and Healing services! That said, we plan to have Harp and Healing tomorrow at 5.30pm at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. It's a service filled with hope, healing and breath and at the same time place and time for sorrow, tears and prayers. Join us in this quiet nondenominational service, come light a candle for your concern or for your loved ones. Pastor Terry Overfelt makes us feel at peace each and every month and I try my best to contribute to that by therapeutic and sacred harp music. Other than that January is generally pretty quiet month for me. My husband's and my students will be performing at our studio cello and harp recital on Saturday the 26th at 3PM at Broadway Christian Church, in case you are interested. I will be performing out of town with the MU Wind Ensemble this month in Saint Louis on the January 18th and...

January 1, 2019

December 2018

December 2018 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, with beginning of December, I would love to invite you to public events and concerts I am playing this month. On December 1st and 2nd the harps of local harpists and my students will sound at Holiday Home Tour. Featuring 4 beautiful Columbia Homes decorated for the Holidays - The Missouri Symphony League Fundraiser. Harps will be sounding live at the Tina and Mark Workman house. More info: https://mosymphonysociety.z2systems.com/np/clients/mosymphonysociety/event.jsp?event=158& Harp and Healing special - Blue Christmas on December 4th at 5.30 PM, Broadway Christian Church Sanctuary. December can be a wonderful month, filled with the excitement and expectation of Christmas. For some people though it might bring back memories of loss, illness or hardship. Perhaps you lost your loved one just recently and are not ready for the joyous festivities. Harp and Healing special- Blue Christmas is here for you. We will join you in your journey of sorrow and healing with live peaceful Harp music, inspirational words, candle light and live painting. I am so delighted that two special guests agreed to join Pastor Terry Overfelt and myself. Artist Vesna Delevska creating a work of art and singer/songwriter/ harpist Ruth Acuff performing her new Holiday single “Peace”. This Christmas special will be held in the Sanctuary of Broadway Christian Church. We hope you will join us for an evening of healing through beauty of music, art and poetry. Free and open to all. Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1703071933138474/?ti=icl If you want to learn more about this event you can listen to our segment with Paul Pepper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgevzF9f1hg Or...

December 1, 2018