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...

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...

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 at the Young Artists Philharmonic. Come and see their performance...

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 play this concert at 7.30pm at the beautiful Missouri Theatre. On the program is...

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 canvas. The event is on September...