Grace Wong Leaving RPO
An Accomplished Career Grace Wong, Principal Harpist of the RPO since 1979, is one of the four RPO musicians who will retire at the close of the 2017-18 season this spring. Grace earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Oberlin Conservatory and Manhattan School of Music, respectively. Prior to joining the RPO, she had been the second prizewinner at the Fifth International Harp Contest in Israel in 1973. Including a debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1974, Grace has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States, toured Canada and the Far East, and has given a series of...
Read MoreBrowning Returning to Rochester
RPO’s Incoming Principal Harpist Grace Browning will be the new principal harpist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), following the retirement of residing RPO harpist, Grace Wong at the end of the current season. Browning won the audition after a two-day audition that took place in this past October. Currently located in Dallas, Texas, where she has been principal harpist with the Dallas Opera since 2014, Browning will be relocating to Rochester to start the job in Fall 2018. “I am so excited to be joining the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as their principal harpist,”...
Read MoreVenezuelan Harp Concert
Keuka College president in concert Dr. Jorge Diaz-Herrera promised a sound audiences “have probably never heard before” at his recent concert in Geneseo on March 26 featuring the Venezuelan Harp. “There are several types of harps in Latin America, but they are all basically the same … its sound is bright and very rhythmic,” said Diaz-Herrera, who started playing the Venezuelan harp as a young teenager in his native Barquisimeto, Venezuela, and says that performing is his therapy. Diaz-Herrera, who is also the president of Keuka College, presented an afternoon of traditional South...
Read MoreHarmonious Harps Concert
Harp Ensemble at Eastman Museum On Sunday, April 9, at 3 pm, Harmonious Harps will be giving a concert at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester that is free with museum admission. Harmonious Harps is an ensemble of student harpists from the studio of Roxanne Ziegler, one of Susan’s harp teachers in the 1990s, that has been performing since Fall 2012. Adults and teenagers comprise the six to ten-member group. The program will feature familiar light classical selections, folk songs, popular standards, and beloved hymns. The sight and sound of so many harpists has been delighting...
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