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Classical / Popular
Ruth - ID546
Styles Classical / Popular
Counties Bedfordshire • Buckinghamshire • Cambridgeshire • Greater London • Hertfordshire • Northamptonshire
Biography
Ruth studied the harp at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduated with distinction. Since then she has been very much in demand as a professional harpist in all areas of music and her work has taken her all over the world.
Ruth is currently the harpist at the London production of “Phantom of the Opera” but regularly takes time out to perform with other companies such as “The Royal Shakespeare Company” and at “The National Theatre”. She particularly enjoyed appearing on “Top of the Pops” and playing on “Classic FM” and “Womans Hour”.
Her love of light music has brought her to perform at weddings, civil partnerships and functions all over the country and at all major London hotels and splendid country residences such as Highclere Castle, Blenheim Palace and Cliveden. She appears regularly closer to her home of Hertfordshire at Hatfield House, Bush Hall, Tewinbury Farm, Fanhams Hall and Ponsbourne Park to name but a few.
Musical Education:
Zurich, Switzerland - Advanced studies with Emmy Hurlimann
Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London) - AGSM (Performers & Teachers) David Watkins
Countess of Munster Musical Trust Award for Advanced Study
Royal College of Music (London) - Sioned Williams
Orchestral, Show & Ensemble Experience:
Almeida Opera Festival
Annie get your Gun
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Carousel
English Touring Opera
Evita
The Halle Orchestra
The Kammerspiel Ensemble
London Festival Orchestra
London Mozart Players
My Fair Lady
The National Theatre
The Phantom of the Opera
The Producers
R.T.E. Concert Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra
The Royal Shakespeare Company
South Pacific
Repertoire
The harp has a very varied repertoire but to give you an idea think of classic songs, light classical, ballads, show and film themes. All the light classical pieces will be melodies you recognise but maybe don’t know the name of. It can be Robbie Williams, Shania Twain or Michael Buble or more traditionally Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole or Ella Fitzgerald.
Popular requests include:
My Heart Will Go On, Evergreen, Never Had a Dream Come True, Home, Angels, Strangers in the Night, Misty, Moonlight Sonata, Clair de Lune, One Day in Your Life, Send in the Clowns and the list is endless…
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