Harpist - Lucy Haslar

Lucy Haslar from Bushey, began her harp studies with Julia
Mackinder and Margaret Knight in London and continued with
Danielle Perrett at the Royal College of Music Junior Department.
From here she attended the Royal Northern College of Music with
renowned harpist Eira Lynn Jones and from which she graduated in
2006 with a Bachelors degree with first class honours.

In May 2008 Lucy completed her Masters Degree in Performance
and Literature from the prestigious Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, NY where she studied with internationally recognised
harpist Kathleen Bride. Here she was awarded the Eastman School
of Music Performer's Certificate and the Robert Barlow award for
excellence in harp performance.

Biography

As a soloist Lucy often gives recitals around the country; recent
performances have been at the Clarendon Muse, Delrow House and for
the Bushey Music and Arts Festival. She has also performed as a
soloist on the Fred. Olsen cruise line. Last summer she was awarded a
place on the Live Music Now! scheme – a project designed to bring
music to the wider community.

Lucy is teacher of harp at the Foremarke Preparatory School and the
Repton School, Derbyshire.

Since her return to the UK Lucy has enjoyed a busy freelance career
in and around London. She is a keen orchestral harpist and has
performed with many of the top orchestras in Britain including the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and
the Southbank Sinfonia. In 2008 she went on tour with the American
Wind Symphony Orchestra, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here
she gave a solo performance of the recently commissioned concerto
for harp and wind orchestra by H. Badings. In the summer of 2007,
Lucy was presented with a scholarship to attend the Brevard Music
Centre in North Carolina where she performed with the Brevard
Music Centre Faculty Orchestra. She has also performed Saint-
saens’ Morceau de concert with the Maltings Symphony Orchestra.

Lucy enjoys collaborating with other musicians and is particularly
interested in the performance of contemporary music. In 2007 she
was invited to perform in the Spazio Music Festival in Cagliari,
Sardinia as a part of the Eastman Broadband Ensemble, in
performances of a new opera. During her time at Eastman she was a
member of the Ossia new music ensemble and the Eastman Virtuosi.
Recently she has joined the Theseus Ensemble – an ensemble
dedicated to the performance of modern music from recent decades.

She is a founder member of the Pelléas Trio; an ensemble consisting
of flute, harp and viola, who have given various popular recitals in
the London area.