NEWSLETTER | Maria Duhova Trevor, Harpist

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

November 2018

2018 November Harp Concerts and Healing Harp

Hello friends of harp music, I apologize for this late night email, but I got way behind over this weekend and the kids being off school today (and tomorrow). Anyway, I hope it's not too late to invite you to Harp and Healing tonight Tuesday November 6th at 5.30PM at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. Despite election tomorrow, we will go ahead with H&H as planned. For those who are interested, this is a monthly service, where I provide 45 minutes of soothing relaxing live harp music and our minister Terry Overfelt provides readings or poems and prayers on the subject of healing. This service is meant for people going through life's difficult situations such as loss of a loved one, illness, recovery, divorce etc. So if you are going through any of these situations, please join us, also feel free to forward our invitation to anybody who could benefit from it. Free and open to everyone. More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/295473704625777/?ti=icl On Wednesday, November 7th, I will be presenting harp to the Boonslick Kiwanis Club at 7.30AM! If you are a member, I am looking forward to seeing you at Rock Bridge HyVee! ( I am looking forward to it, except the early morning part of it ; -) More info: https://boonslick.kiwanis.missouri.org/(X(1)S(hbljsv2u3gydlk5aw554bcq3))/Page/13479 On Sunday November 11th The Missouri Symphony Conservatory Orchestras will present their Fall concert. These are very talented young instrumentalists from all over Columbia, JC, Moberly and Lake who rehearse once every week under the direction of my husband Kirk Trevor. One of my harp students plays harp...

November 1, 2018

October 2018

2018 October Harp Concerts and Healing Harp

Dear friends of Harp music, September has been very busy for me and really flew by. Some of my favorite moments included performing in collaboration with an incredibly talented artist Vesna Delevska in Saint Louis, our family mini vacation to the Smoky Mountains, performing for Super Sam foundation and a Fantasy themed wedding in Castle Unicorn in Iowa. I will attach some pictures for you to loo at. You can also find pictures and updates from events I play at my Facebook page Maria Duhova Trevor - Harpist and Instagram maria_duhova_trevor_harp. Now I am looking forward to events in October (and my birthday too!) Some of the private events I will take part of will be weddings in Missouri and Illinois and an employee recognition dinner for 3M. The public events that I can actually invite you to are listed bellow. Harp and Healing - tomorrow - Tuesday October 2nd at 5.30pm at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. Join me and pastor Terry Overfelt in contemplative 45 minutes of live harp music and inspirational word on a theme of healing. Physical healing, emotional, relational.... this is a monthly ecumenical service happening on first Tuesday of each month, completely free and open to public. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1706866392755633/?ti=icl Springfield Symphony Concert - this is for those of you in Springfield, I am looking forward to joining my colleagues again this season in concert performing Mahler 4th Symphony. The concert is on Saturday October 6th at 7.30pm at the Hammons Hall. more info and tickets: http://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/concerts/october/who-am-i-and-where-am-i-going Columbia Civic Orchestra concert - I will be back in Columbia on Sunday October 7th to...

October 1, 2018

September 2018

2018 September Harp Concerts and Healing Harp

Dear friends of harp music, It's good to be back! I went to Slovakia to see my family and friends for most of July and August. Now I am back to teaching and performing, kids are back in school- in fact all three of them full time! For the first time in 12 years, I don't have a little one with me at home at least a few days a week. ( Sob) But, on the bright side, it has been nice not to have to practice at night only these past 2 weeks so far. :-) I am excited to restart Harp and Healing, we will continue to meet first Tuesday of each month at 5.30 pm at Broadway Christian Church. I will play therapeutic music and Pastor Terry Overfelt will have inspirational readings to share. I am sorry to announce that Tim Carson retired from Broadway and we will miss him. Terry will take on the pastoral leading role for H&H and we will continue our monthly services of healing, relaxation, renewal and prayer. Please join us on September 4th at 5.30PM at the Loft of BCC. I am so grateful for the spotlight we got for this service just this morning on the radio. Here is a segment from Radio Friends with Paul Pepper, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzOEJG30iW8&feature=youtu.be Another public event I am playing for this month will be in Saint Louis. I am collaborating with artist Vesna Delevska again. She is an amazing painter who specializes in painting to live music and capturing the feelings of music on her...

September 1, 2018

July 2018

2018 July Harp Concerts and Healing Harp

Dear friends of harp music, as July approaches, I would like to invite you to the remaining concerts of the Hot Summer Nights festival. Tomorrow at 7.30pm we are performing La Boheme - my favorite opera. We have a wonderful cast of lead singers. The singers are part of Resident Opera Artists program and 4 singers are chosen every summer to come to Columbia and take the leading roles in the opera production with the Missouri Symphony. Around 100 singers auditioned in New York and in Columbia when the auditions took place in March. We have additional roles covered by a great local singers and chorus. So do not let this opportunity to hear them slip by! Friday June 29th Missouri Theatre 7.30 pm. Next performance is Silent Movie with live music on Sunday July 1st at 6.30pm - Missouri Theatre. There is no harp in that one, but it's always amazing to watch how the music is synchronized to the silent movie. It's 3 short Charlie Chaplin movies this year. Then on July 3th at 7.30pm our ever popular Patriotic Pops concert. Music of Americana and patriotic standards this bellowed concert always fills the hall to the brim. Our resident opera artists take part in this concert as well. ( Missouri Theatre) On July 7th, my stepdaughter Chloe Trevor will come to perform Sibelius Violin concerto and the MSO will play Dvorak's Symphony no.9! Chloe is an amazing concert violinist and Dvorak's 9 is a classic! ( 7.30pm, Missouri Theatre ) Our final Pops concert is on July 13th, 7.30 pm, Missouri Theatre and is featuring Asleep at the Wheel in concert...

July 1, 2018

June 2018

2018 June Harp Concerts and Healing Harp

Dear friends of harp music, for those of you who know me well, you know that my summers are filled with music! I am the harpist for the Missouri Symphony - an international festival orchestra that pulls musicians from all over USA to come to make Columbia their home for next 6 weeks during the Hot Summer Nights festival. It's an incredibly talented group of musicians and I am honored to be a member and only one of the handful of local players. Our musicians arrived 2 days ago and we are ready to perform our first concert tomorrow Thursday June 7th, at 7pm at Stephens Lake Park. It's a free concert, family friendly, bring a blanket or a folding chair to sit on. After we kick off the season, a roller coaster of concerts will last next 6 weeks. We have masterworks concerts, pop concerts, free family concerts, tours and free outdoor concerts around Columbia, Patriotic Pops, fully staged opera - La Boheme, Silent Movie with live orchestra performing music to it and I am probably forgetting a bunch. It would take me an hour to just list them all. But I am really looking forward to playing with Missouri Contemporary Ballet this Saturday, Oscar Night at the Movies concert, La Boheme of course and Dvorak's New World Symphony. Please check out our full season at http://themosy.org/hot-summer-nights-2018 and also check out these posters bellow. Most of the concerts are at the Missouri Theatre, so when you walk by pick up our flyers and brochures. Have a great...

June 1, 2018

May 2018

2018 May Harp Concerts and Healing Harp

Dear friends of harp music, I would love to invite you to a very special Harp and Healing service that we have planned to close our season with before we part for the summer. Harp and Healing is 45 minute long service of live harp music creating a healing ambiance in a quiet sanctuary. Tim Carson has inspirational readings between the songs, Tim brings a very special aspect to this service and I truly couldn't do this without his support! H&H happens every month, but this time we have a very special guest - artist Vesna Delevska from Saint Louis is joining us to live paint. Vesna specializes in painting to live music and I had a privilege to play for her in her gallery in February. I am so glad she accepted our invitation and you will be able to experience her artistry. Since this is the last Harp and Healing of our 7th season we decided to celebrate it with some lemonade and cake in the Fellowship Hall following the service. Vesna's finished painting will be on display and available for purchase through Silent auction. She is also bringing some additional paintings that will be displayed. Please check out Vesna's website www.vesnadelevska.com Whether you consider coming for the healing atmosphere or relaxation, please join us, it's free and open to everyone! One of our attendees described it as " the massage for the soul" :-) I have been invited on several shows to promote this special Harp and Healing, here are the links, if...

May 1, 2018