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November 2023 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I hope you are having a beautiful fall! I would like to challenge you to invite a friend and enjoy some live music this month! First, I would like to invite you to my Harp Concert this Saturday, October 28th at 7.00pm in the 4th Street Theatre in Moberly. I know it's 40 minutes away, but please consider coming. I don't play solo recitals often due to my otherwise busy schedule, so it takes extra time and energy to prepare and it would be lovely to see a good turn out for this live performance. The concert will be about an hour in length and I will be covering music from classical, through romantic and popular to fun and one of a kind piece like the Baroque Flamenco! For those of you who come to Harp and Healing, this is a very different energy level in a beautifully restored historic theatre! Back here in Columbia, I will be collaborating with the Columbia Chorale on Chichester Psalms by Bernstein and Gloria by Poulenc. The performance will be on November 4th at 7.00pm at Launer Auditorium, Columbia College, 901 Rogers Street and the concert is called Perseverance of Hope. More information here: https://www.choralartsallianceofmissouri.org/caam-concerts/ Our Harp and Healing mission to bring this service to different churches in our community this year is off to a great start! In November we will be at the Missouri United Methodist Church, 204 S Ninth Street. The service will be as always on the first Tuesday, November 7th...

November 1, 2023

October 2023 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, Please join us on Tuesday October 3rd for Harp and Healing at 6pm. This time we will meet at Rockbridge Christian Church! We are looking forward to this 45 minutes of healing words and meditative music. I will also be joining the MU Wind Ensemble for a concert in the Missouri Theatre on Monday night, October 2nd at 7pm. These are wonderful young talented musicians and it's always a joy to join them under the direction of our friend Brian Silvey! I will be in Springfield on October 7th, playing a concert with the Springfield Symphony at 7.30pm at the Hammons Hall. More info here: https://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/concerts/october/rivers After this concert, I have a few lovely fall wedding ceremonies to play in Hermann and Saint Louis and also playing background harp music for a corporate event in Kansas City. At the end of this month I will be playing a solo harp recital in Moberly, if you can, please come to that one, I will be playing music from Baroque through Romantic and modern including the Baroque Flamenco! This concert is organized by Moberly Area Arts Council and will happen at the 4th Street Theatre at 7pm on October 28th! Hope to see you tonight or at any of these events!

October 5, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

April 2022 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I hope you are enjoying the signs of spring outdoors! March was a traveling month for me, first going to Slovakia and then to Mexico for spring break, now back to busy teacher and performer life! Please join me tomorrow evening for Harp and Healing tomorrow evening at 5.30pm at Broadway Christian Church. It's a monthly service on the first Tuesday devoted to reflection, prayer and healing. On Easter Sunday I will be performing at Broadway Christian Church again during the 9am and 11.15am services. For more information, visit http://www.broadwaychristian.net/worship Then on April 23th I would like to invite you to come to the Missouri Academy of Music Spring Concert - again at Broadway Christian Church at 7.30pm! My husband and I founded this organization last spring, so come to see what we have been up to along with these talented young musicians! More information www.missouriacademyofmusic.com I am also looking forward to performing two orchestra concerts - on April 28th at Jesse Hall with the Columbia Civic Orchestra and the Choral Union at 7pm and on May 1st collaborating with the S&T orchestra in Rolla. http://cco.missouri.org/2021-2022-season.html For new pictures and harp videos, please follow me on social media, just click on any of these: My Facebook page My Instagram Watch my music videos on my YouTube channel Thank you, hope to see you at on of the upcoming events! Best wishes,

April 4, 2022

March 2022 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, A new month is here and I want to invite you to concerts and events that I perform for. It has been difficult last few days as we watched the news of war starting in Ukraine. I have to admit I was kind of paralyzed with disbelief on Thursday. Please accept my humble offering of invitation to Harp and Healing on first Tuesday of the month aka tomorrow evening at 5.30pm at the Sanctuary of Broadway Christian Church. It's 45 minutes of live harp music and prayers and readings provided by BCC minister Terry Overfelt. This coming Saturday, I will be playing with the Springfield Symphony. It's been so nice to be back to orchestral performing! One of my favorite pieces is on the program, so that's even more exciting! Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances! Here is a link for more information and tickets: https://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/concerts/march/symphonic-dances Then on Sunday March 6th from 4pm to 6pm I will take part in a special wedding event - Open Venue at Emerson Fields! If you know of any future brides and grooms please recommend this event to them. Not only will they to visit and get a feel for this beautiful place, but they will also meet a selected group of wedding professionals. I am excited to be part of this! I am planning two big trips in March, so as far as performing - this is it! I continue teaching my students aging from 8 to 78 and marvel at their dedication and progress! If you know of anyone who loves harp and wants to learn, please let...

February 28, 2022

January 2022 Newsletter

Dear friends, wishing you all happy and healthy New Year and looking forward to making beautiful music for you in 2022!

January 3, 2022

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