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Tuesday, July 28
 

14:30 EDT

Neuron Mirror Neuron II
Tuesday July 28, 2026 14:30 - 16:00 EDT
Vendor Exhibit Hall
A hybrid installation-performance inviting audiences to co-create sound through physical gestures, blending pose-tracking technology with harp improv for an experience inspired by human mirror neurons.
Presenters
avatar for Ariel Sol

Ariel Sol

Ariel Sol pioneers the future of sound as an LA-based composer, harpist, and interactive media designer. Hailing from Chicago, he is passionate about bridging disciplines to foster community. From cinematic pop to virtual reality soundscapes- storytelling, identity, and empowerment... Read More →
Tuesday July 28, 2026 14:30 - 16:00 EDT
Vendor Exhibit Hall
  Performance, Multimedia
 
Wednesday, July 29
 

11:30 EDT

21st Century Female Composers 🍁
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:30 - 12:30 EDT
Grand Ballroom
Beneath the Waves, Beyond the Stars. Renée Qin performs featuring original compositions blending acoustic and electronic soundscapes, showcasing the harp with immersive audiovisual elements and interactive technologies.

Out of Darkness, Into Light. Anna Dunlap performs 21st-century works by women composers exploring the theme of finding the threads of hope in difficult times.
Presenters
avatar for Renée Qin

Renée Qin

AHS Young Composers Project
RenĂ©e Qin is a harpist-composer bridging classical tradition and emerging technologies. She holds a B.A. in Music and Economics from Stanford, an Artist Diploma from OAcademy, and is pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford. A 2025 Orchestra of the Americas fellow... Read More →
avatar for Anna Dunlap

Anna Dunlap

Anna Dunlap is Principal Harpist of the Huntsville, Alabama, Symphony Orchestra, and the Kalamazoo, Michigan, Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the New Downbeat collective in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anna has performed world premieres of chamber works by up-and-coming composers. Anna holds... Read More →
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:30 - 12:30 EDT
Grand Ballroom Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
  Performance, Multimedia
 
Friday, July 31
 

09:30 EDT

Valentina V. by Timothy Roy, for Solo Harp and Immersive Electroacoustic Sound
Friday July 31, 2026 09:30 - 10:05 EDT
Birchwood Ballroom
Valentina V. is a powerful and evocative new work for harp and immersive electronics exploring the dramatic and tragic life of Valentina Visconti.
Presenters
avatar for Timothy Roy

Timothy Roy

Electronics
Timothy Roy composes music steeped in imagery and allusion, which seeks to elicit a sense of time, place, and feeling. His music has been presented at such venues and events as the National Theater of Taipei, Music Biennale Zagreb, ZKM Karlsruhe, Los Angeles County Arboretum... Read More →
avatar for Hope Cowan

Hope Cowan

Hope Cowan performs and teaches throughout the Houston area as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and event harpist. Active as both an orchestral and chamber musician, she is principal harpist with the Symphony of Southeast Texas and is a core member of the chamber music... Read More →
Friday July 31, 2026 09:30 - 10:05 EDT
Birchwood Ballroom
  Performance, Multimedia

14:00 EDT

Nico Muhly's The Street
Friday July 31, 2026 14:00 - 15:15 EDT
St. Thomas Anglican Church
 The Street is fourteen meditations on the Stations of the Cross, music composed by Nico Muhly, text/libretto by Alice Goodman. The Street was commissioned by King’s College, Cambridge, with the generous support of the American Harp Society, the Association of Anglican Musicians, Michael Davidson and Benedict Cadbury. First performed on April 16, 2022 and recorded by Parker Ramsay. The first performance was given on 16 April 2022. 

Note: This church is approximately a 40 minute walk from the Sheraton. It is 16 minutes by Metro.
  1. Walk 4 minutes to the Osgoode Metro Station.
  2. Take train 1 Yonge-University to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station. Trains every 3 minutes. 6 min, 4 stops:
     St Patrick
     Queen's Park
     Museum
     St George EXIT HERE
3. Walk about 6 min (483 meters, 0.3 mi) to St. Thomas's Anglican Church, 383 Huron St,
Presenters
avatar for Parker Ramsay

Parker Ramsay

Parker Ramsay has forged a career that defies classification. Whether premiering, rediscovering, or transcribing, he dedicates himself to expanding the harp’s repertoire, bringing the instrument to conversations — and audiences — it had never before known.
Friday July 31, 2026 14:00 - 15:15 EDT
St. Thomas Anglican Church 383 Huron Street, Toronto
  Performance, Multimedia
 
Saturday, August 1
 

10:15 EDT

Trees.Listen 🍁
Saturday August 1, 2026 10:15 - 11:05 EDT
Willow
An immersive sonic journey for lever harp and fixed electronics by Canadian composers Frank Horvat and Sharlene Wallace with photography-video-projections by Sharlene.
Presenters
avatar for Sharlene Wallace

Sharlene Wallace

Sharlene Wallace is a Canadian lever and pedal harpist, composer, educator and visual explorer. Winner of two international lever harp competitions, she has given concerts and workshops across Canada, the United States and Europe. Sharlene has released nine albums, including two electronic... Read More →
Saturday August 1, 2026 10:15 - 11:05 EDT
Willow Willow West + Willow Centre
  Performance, Multimedia

11:30 EDT

Powerful Imagery, With and Without Words
Saturday August 1, 2026 11:30 - 13:00 EDT
Birchwood Ballroom
Gallos y Huesos for Harp and Vocal Ensemble (Lucrecia Jancsa): Original composition by Pablo Ortiz, poetry by Sergio Chejfec, for three sopranos, two altos, baritone, and harp, exploring ontological themes on roosters and bones, with visuals images by Eduardo StupĂ­a. 

Hear US (Veronika Lemishenko): The program features works by contemporary female harpist-composers, each carrying a profound social message. Through music, it explores themes of psychological pressure, the restriction of rights, humanity’s reconnection with nature, the impact of lockdowns, the realities of war, and deep reflections on love, death, and eternity.
Presenters
avatar for Veronika Lemishenko

Veronika Lemishenko

Veronika Lemishenko is a distinguished Ukrainian harpist with an international career as principal harpist of the Croatian National Theater in Osijek, visiting artist at the Royal Birmingham Conservatory, artistic director of the “Glowing Harp" competition and festival.nnVeronika... Read More →
avatar for Lucrecia Jancsa

Lucrecia Jancsa

Whc
Lucrecia Jancsa is Principal Harpist of the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra and Professor at the Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires. She has performed major harp concertos with leading Argentine orchestras, collaborated with international ensembles including the Dresden Philharmonic... Read More →
Saturday August 1, 2026 11:30 - 13:00 EDT
Birchwood Ballroom
  Performance, Multimedia
 
Monday, August 3
 

10:30 EDT

Land & Sky: Original works for harp, voice & electronics, and harp & guitar
Monday August 3, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 EDT
Birchwood Ballroom
Lullabies for the Land (Eleanor Turner): Eleanor uses the language of lullabies as a backdrop to self-expression and a telling of her own truth, blending Arabic, Indian and Western musical traditions.

Southern Skies: New Australian Works for Harp and Guitar (Emily Granger & Andrew Blanch)
Presenters
avatar for Andrew Blanch

Andrew Blanch

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Guitarist Andrew Blanch is an associate artist of the Bowerbird Collective, Vice-President of the Classical Guitar Society Sydney and a founding member and co-artistic director of the Australian Guitar Quartet. With harpist Emily Granger, Blanch collaborated on a new album described... Read More →
avatar for Emily Granger

Emily Granger

Chicago Harp Quartet
Praised for her “impressive virtuosity and eye-opening versatility" by Limelight Magazine, harpist Emily Granger is Principal Harp with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, on the faculty at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and a member of Ensemble Q. She has performed  as guest Principal Harp with orchestras in Australia and the U.S. She is a graduate of Indiana University's Jacobs School... Read More →
avatar for Eleanor Turner

Eleanor Turner

Eleanor Turner is a harpist and composer who creates intriguing and meaningful live experiences as a solo and chamber musician, in acoustic and electric performances. Eleanor’s western classical technique informs, but does not inhibit, her musical choices as she carves a unique... Read More →
Monday August 3, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 EDT
Birchwood Ballroom
  Performance, Chamber Music, Multimedia
 

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