About Me

I live in Portland, OR and play a Style 21 Lyon & Healy pedal harp made in the early 1890s.

I was taught the Salzedo method by Rebecca Anstine Smith in Maryland. Salzedo method is named after Carlos Salzedo, a harpist who, with the Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, "developed a theory of esthetic gestures for the harp" (wikipedia), tended to compose with a five-beat meter, and who's style spans Romantic to Impressionist to his own very distinctive style.

My interest in the harp started in music classes in elementary school. After seeing a harp in a film about orchestras, I knew that was it for me. My dad was instrumental (Yes. Yes, I did.) in following up on my request to get some lessons. I played piano for a year-and-a-half to learn to read music, then started taking harp lessons. And today, many years later, I can't begin to imagine life without it.