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Classical / Popular
Ellen - ID555
Styles Classical / Popular • Harp and Voice
Counties Cambridgeshire • Essex • Greater London • Hertfordshire • Kent
Biography
This harpist is available for weddings in the Kent and the South East and has played for numerous private functions in such prestigious venues as The House of Commons, the Tower of London, Claridges, The Dorchester, The Berkeley, The Langham and Leeds Castle. She has been harpist in residence at Le Meridien Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane and at The Churchill, Portman Square.
Ellen graduated from University College London with a first class honours degree in Classics before pursuing a Masters in Music Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she specialised in Early Music.
She has since been in great demand throughout the country as both a harpist and singer and has performed in some of Britain's top concert venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, St. John Smith's Square, St. Martin-in-the-Fields where she was also a choral scholar, Cheltenham Festival, Leeds Town Hall and Birmingham's Symphony Hall under such conductors as Sir Andrew Davis, Pierre Boulez and Sir Simon Rattle.
As a former member of the BBC Symphony Chorus she has often performed at the BBC Proms, including the Last Night of the Proms.
Ellen regularly plays for orchestral concerts and ensemble engagements. Particular highlights include performances of Britten's Ceremony of Carols in Westminster Cathedral and a Debussy world première conducted by Charles Hazelwood for the Broomhill Trust.
Ellen enjoys an international career and has performed at the Salzburg and Istanbul Festivals and extensively throughout Europe. She was engaged as a solo artiste for the entire 2004 Cunard World Cruise aboard Queen Elizabeth 2 and was invited to return for the opening section of the 2005 Cunard World Cruise.
More recent recital work has combined Ellen's work as both a singer and harpist. In a concert at Holy Trinity church on Sloane Street she sang, accompanied by her harp teacher, Danielle Perrett, in a concert featuring the Songs of the Hebrides from the collection by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and returned months later, this time as harpist, to accompany tenor Jake White in a performance of Michael Berkeley's song cycle Wessex Graves. Future engagements include a London performance of Handel's harp concerto.
SAMPLE REPERTOIRE
Classical
Bach Air on the G String, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Prelude No.1 in C, Sheep may safely graze
Bach/Gounod Ave Maria
Barber Adagio for Strings
Beethoven Fur elise, Moonlight Sonata
Brahms Lullaby, Theme from 1 st Symphony
Chopin Tristesse Study
Clarke Trumpet Voluntary
Debussy Clair de Lune, Premiere Arabesque
Dussek Sonata
Dvorak Largo (Symphony no. 9 New World)
Elgar Chanson de Matin, Nimrod theme, Cello concerto theme
Faure Pie Jesu (Requiem), Pavane
Greig Morning (Peer Gynt Suite)
Handel, G.F. Air and Hornpipe (Water Music), Chaconne, Sarabande
Mahler Death in Venice theme
Mendlessohn On wings of song, O for the wings of a dove, Wedding March (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Mozart Lacrymosa (Requiem), Romance (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik), Ave verum
Offenbach, J. La belle Helene
Pachelbel Canon in D
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd movement)
Saint-Saens The Swan
Satie Gymnopedie no. 1
Schubert Ave Maria, Lullaby, Serenata
Smetana Theme & Variations from the Moldau
Vivaldi Excerpts from The Four Seasons
Opera
Bizet Au Fond de Temple Saint (The Pearl Fishers), Habanera (Carmen)
Dvorak Song to the Moon (Russalka)
Gluck Air d'Orphee (Orphee et Eurydice)
Handel Largo ( Xerxes ), Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon), Where'er you walk (Semele), Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)
Mascagni Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Massenet Meditation (Thais)
Puccini O mio bab
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