September 2023 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music,   I hope you had a wonderful relaxing summer! I was able to see my family and friends in Slovakia and England and had a great time visiting, relaxing, hiking and traveling.   I am back in US, performing and teaching and I hope to see you at one of these events :-)   Harp and Healing - tomorrow night, Tuesday September 5th at 6pm. Join us for 45 minutes of uplifting meditations and relaxing music. Bring a friend along to share this experience. It is hard to describe this service that started 12 years ago and continues on every first Tuesday September through May, but someone in the past described it to me as "this felt like a massage for the soul". It's free and open to all. This service will take place in Broadway Christian Church, new starting time this year - 6pm. We are also branching out a bit this year, collaborating with various other churches on this monthly service, so our October Harp and Healing will be at the Rock Bridge Christian Church. If you think your church would be interested in this collaboration in the future, please let me know. On Sunday September 10th, I am happy to return to a wedding venue dear to my heart to meet future brides and tell them about the beauty of live music for their wedding. The Emerson Fields Open House is a great place to meet my favorite wedding vendors and see the venue in its full beauty. So if you know of anyone getting married this...

September 4, 2023

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May 2023 Newsletter

Dear friends of Harp music, With this lovely weather outside, I would love to invite you to events where you will be able to hear the harp in the month of May. Tomorrow, we close our season of Harp and Healing at 5:30 at Broadway Christian Church. Whether are you are in need of healing -  physical, emotional, or healing from grief, or whether you just want to quiet down with calming and relaxing live Harp music and meditations by Pastor Terry Overfelt, you’re more than welcome to attend this free 45 minute long event. The next event I warmly invite you to is happening this Sunday May 7th at 6 PM at Broadway Christian Church. It is a Harp Recital given by all my students! They are all so talented, bringing first and second prize is from the Kansas City Lyra harp competition and the best ratings from the Federation of Music Clubs! I have two graduating seniors whom I have been teaching for last 10 years and this is your last chance to hear them for a while in Columbia! So, don’t miss this chance and come to the Harp recital on Sunday! It will be about an hour in length and you will hear performance on lever harp as well as pedal harp. If you know of anyone, child or adult interested in learning to play the harp, please invite them to this recital. I will have openings in my studio next semester and a beginner instrument available for rent. On Saturday May 13th, I will be...

May 1, 2023

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April 2023 Newsletter

Hello friends of harp music,   please join us tomorrow for Harp and Healing at 5.30 pm at Broadway Christian Church Sanctuary. Relax with therapeutic harp music and meditations from our Pastor Terry Overfelt. Rest of this month is pretty busy for me, performing movie scores with the Missouri S&T orchestra in Rolla on April 15th and then with the Springfield Symphony on April 22nd. Both projects very exciting! With the Springfield Symphony we are doing a full production of Swan Lake not only in Springfield, but also in Saint Louis on April 28th, 29th and 30th at Touhill PAC. This is a collaboration of SSO and the Saint Louis Ballet. I am including the STL ballet website in case you want to purchase tickets for one of the STL performances: https://www.stlouisballet.org/swanlake   Here in town, our Missouri Academy of Music will have a Spring concert on April 23rd, 7pm at Broadway Christian Church. Please come and support these talented young musicians. Admission is free.   If you like to stream or download music, please check out my newly released single Abide with Me. It is my own harp arrangement of this beautiful hymn and it's available on Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, Amazon music, Apple music etc. I will be releasing another single this month on April 10th - Be Still my Soul and it will be available on all of those platforms as well. I hope you take a listen!  Have a great month and take care!  

April 3, 2023

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February 2023 Newsletter

Dear friends of Harp music, I apologize for not keeping in touch while I was on sabbatical Slovakia last semester. My family and I had a great time, it was really lovely to be close to my family and an amazing experience for the children to attend an international school. We returned right before Christmas and I have been back to performing and teaching since. I would like to let you know of the opportunities to hear my harp this month! As I write this, I am in Springfield getting ready to play a concert with a Springfield Symphony here tonight. https://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/concerts/february/star-crossed-lovers Back in Columbia, I’m looking forward to performing  for romantic evening  on Valentine’s Day at the Old Hawthorne Club. The club provides such a great atmosphere for couples celebrating this special day and I’ve been honored to be part of it for last several years. On February 22nd my harp will be part of Ash Wednesday service at Broadway Christian church at 7 PM. Please join us for this solemn service at the beginning of Lent. I am preparing some very special new music specifically for this service. Some of you may have noticed that while we continued Harp and Healing throughout November with my video submissions from Slovakia, we didn’t continue in December or January. We felt it was difficult to sustain our audience while I was not present in person. We will restart Harp and Healing on March 7th, so if you love this free service, please support us with your presence in March. We...

February 4, 2023

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May 2022 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I am looking forward to the month of May and the performances it holds as well as finalizing this school year and slowing down my pace this summer! I would like to invite you to Harp and Healing tomorrow evening May 3rd at 5.30pm at Broadway Christian Church. This is the final Harp and Healing of this season, before we take a break for the summer and then start again in September. Enjoy 45 minutes of live harp music and readings, meditations and prayers by Pastor Terry Overfelt. Free and open for all. I am grateful for the invitation of Radio Friends with Paul Pepper to talk about this upcoming H&H and play live music in the studio, the video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSw21mEkbms Then this weekend while I will be playing a fun Flamenco Concert with the Springfield Symphony, my husband and our Missouri Academy of Music will be performing here in town at the Missouri United Methodist Church as part of their Concert series. May 7th, 7.00PM. More information: https://moumc.org/concert-series All the following weekends are taken by performing for wedding ceremonies and also planning on my Harp Studio recital on May 21st at Community United Methodist Church. Keep watching for further  information on my social media as I am still deciding on the starting time! My Facebook page My Instagram Watch my music videos on my YouTube channel, I have been adding new content weekly. You can listen to my music on Spotify,...

May 2, 2022

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