Sheila Larchet Cuthbert at 100 – Her Life and Harping Legacy

Cruit Éireann|Harp Ireland

Sheila Larchet  Cuthbert @100 - Her Life and Harping Legacy
Featuring Cliona Doris, Denise Kelly McDonnell and Andreja Malir

Pepper Canister Church

Sheila Larchet Cuthbert @100 - Her Life and Harping LegacyFeaturing words and harp music from Cliona Doris, Denise Kelly McDonnell and Andreja Malir with special guest Mary CuthbertSunday 19th November 4.30pm The Pepper Canister Church, Mount St Crescent. Dublin 2Sheila Larchet Cuthbert has led a remarkable life of harping, both as a performer, teacher, author and advocate for the harp in Ireland. Her international contribution at World Harp Congress level, her seminal publication The Irish Harp Book, featuring new works by many of Ireland’s leading twentieth century composers together with her teaching and distinguished performing career as the RTESO (NSO) principal harpist for many years, have contributed significantly to a resurgence of interest in harping during the twentieth century, and undoubtedly set the scene for our vibrant harping tradition today.Cruit Éireann | Harp Ireland’s 2023 annual lecture marks Sheila’s remarkable achievement in her 100th year. With harp music and words, Denise Kelly McDonnell, Cliona Doris and Andreja Malir discuss her pivotal role and share personal insights into the life and harping legacy of a crusader who transformed the harp in Ireland, and who exerted a profound influence on Irish musical life throughout the twentieth century.

Denise Kelly McDonnellHarpist Denise Kelly began her musical studies in Dublin and following her graduation from Trinity College, Dublin with a MusB Degree, she moved to London where she studied harp with the renowned Russian harpist Maria Korchinska. She also studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. An Arts Council scholarship enabled her to finish her harp education at the Conservatoire Royale de Musique, Brussels. In 1999 she was appointed as lecturer in harp at the DIT Conservatory of Music &amp; Drama. She has a great interest in contemporary music and is herself a composer and arranger. As a freelance orchestral harpist, she has worked with the N.S.O., RTECO, Orchestra of St. Cecilia, and the Ulster Orchestra. She has recorded solo and chamber music with BBC, RTE, UTV, radio and TV, and has made numerous CDs with the cellist Moya O’Grady and choral group ‘Anuna’

Clíona DorisClíona Doris joined DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in 2005 and has held the positions of Head of Orchestral Studies and Head of Conservatory. She is a graduate of The Queen's University of Belfast and Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, where she studied with the acclaimed harpist, Susann McDonald. She graduated with the Doctor of Music Degree in Harp Performance and Music Literature from Indiana University.Clíona has extensive experience as a soloist and chamber musician and has performed throughout Ireland, Britain, Europe and the United States. Her broadcasts include performances on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Ulster, RTÉ LyricFM, National Public Radio USA, ClassicFM TV, UTV, RTÉ Television and BBC Television, including as soloist at the BBC Proms in the Park from Belfast broadcast as part of the BBC Last Night of the Proms. An active exponent of contemporary music, her CD recordings include two solo CDs, a pale yellow sky (RTÉ lyricfM label), and in blue sea or sky (Riverrun Records) and a concerto recording of Handel’s Harp Concertowith the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (RTÉ lyricfm label). She also features on contemporary chamber music recordings for Louth Contemporary Music Society, NMC Recordings and Diatribe Records.She a member of the Board of Directors of Music Network, Music Generation and the World Harp Congress. She is former Chair of the Ninth World Harp Congress Dublin 2005 and the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland.

Andreja MalirAndreja Malir is the principal harpist with the National Symphony Orchestra since 1988. She began her study of the harp with Sheila Larchet Cuthbert, initially playing the Irish Harp and subsequently the Concert Harp. She has won many awards for both instruments.Her exceptional ability led to her being accepted as a student by the eminent harpist and teacher, Professor Edward Witenburg, at the Royal Dutch Conservatory in the Hague, where she pursued advanced level study for four and a half years, culminating in the award, with distinction, of the Performers Diploma.Miss Malir also holds a diploma for the Interpretation of Spanish Music awarded to her by the legendary harpist virtuoso Nicanor Zabaleta at the International Music Course in Santiago de Compostela.In January, 1988, Andreja was one of the youngest principals to be appointed to the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. She has appeared as soloist to critical acclaim with the NSO playing the Handel and Ginastera Concertos, and also the Concerto by Philip Martin, which was commissioned for her by RTE, and which she has recorded on the Marco Polo label.Other concerto performances include the Mozart and Ginastera Concertos with the Shanghai Radio Orchestra, the Mozart with the RTE Concert Orchestra and the Debussy, 'Dances Sacree et Profane', with Classical Graffiti, which she has recorded a CD.Andreja has given solo and chamber recitals in Dublin and throughout Ireland as well as abroad in Holland, Belgium, France, Israel, Spain and Sweden as well as radio recitals for RTE and the BBC.

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