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Please find the preliminary 11th World Harp Congress Program below, by day and time.
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| Sunday, July 24 | Monday, July 25 | Tuesday, July 26 |
| Wednesday, July 27 | Thursday, July 28 | Friday, July 29 |
| Saturday, July 30 |
*Program is subject to change*
Friday July 22 |
| 2:00pm – 4:00pm Sheraton Hotel Junior Ballroom D |
WHC Members of the Corporation Meeting |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm Sheraton Hotel Junior Ballroom D |
WHC Members of the Board of Directors Meeting |
| 7:00pm - 10:00pm Sheraton Hotel Junior Ballroom D |
WHC Board of Directors Meeting |
Saturday July 23 |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm Sheraton Hotel Granville Room |
WHC Board of Directors Meeting |
| 1:00pm - 5:30pm Sheraton Hotel Granville Room |
WHC Board of Directors Meeting |
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Registration Open |
| 7:00pm - 10:00pm Sheraton Hotel Granville Room |
WHC Board of Directors Meeting |
| 8:00am – 7:30pm | Registration Open |
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| 9:00am - 10:30pm First Baptist Church |
Church Service Prelude Music, Offertory Music and Postlude Music will be performed by local harpist, Miya Otake. |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm Sheraton Hotel Granville Room |
WHC Board of Directors Meeting |
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| 10:20am - 12:00pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Church Service with Kaori Otake | ||
| 11:00am - 12:00pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Church Service with Sharlene Wallace |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm First Baptist Church |
Church Service Prelude Music, Offertory Music and Postlude Music will be performed by local harpist, Miya Otake. |
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3:00pm – 4:30pm |
Opening Gala |
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| 5:00pm – 6:30pm Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Welcome Reception & Exhibits Open Jan Jennings (USA), Marta Cook (USA) |
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| 7:00pm – 10:15pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Opening Recital |
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| 7:00 – 8:30 |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Jazz:
Rossitza Milevska (Bulgaria/France) and
Kristian Alexandrov (Bulgaria/Canada), drums & keyboard |
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| 9:45 – 10:15 | Jazz: Christa Grix (USA), Kristian Alexandrov (Bulgaria/Canada), percussion |
| 8:00am – 7:30pm | Registration Desk Open |
| 9:00am – 5:00pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:30am – 9:15am Sheraton Hotel Galiano Room |
Lecture: Amplified "Gig" Workshop Alison & Stephen Vardy (Canada) |
| 9:00am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Coffee Concert: BC Harpists Josh Layne (Canada) Mozetich: Songs of Nymphs: Prelude, Reflection, Ritual, Freedom Joy Yeh (Canada/Taiwan) Chatman: Creatures of Earth and Sky |
| 10:00am – 11:30am St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Focus on Youth |
| 10:00am – 10:45am First Baptist Church |
Concert: The Godefroid Brothers Celia Chan Valerio (USA) - lecturer, performer Godefroid: Bolero pour harpe seule John Wickey (USA) and Lynn Aspnes (USA): True North Harp Duo Godefroid: Bolero pour deux harpes, and Fantaisie pour deux harpes |
| 11:00am – 11:45am First Baptist Church |
Lecture/Recital: Harp Music in 20th century Spain Maria Rosa Navaz Perez (Spain) |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch
(on your own) & Shop at Exhibits |
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm Sheraton Hotel Granville Room |
Meeting of WHC Review Correspondents |
| 12:00pm – 12:40pm Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Lunch Concert Eastman Harp Ensemble Megan Sesma (USA), Julie Spring (USA), Louise Vickerman (USA), Marguerite Lynn Williams (USA) |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Concert: Chamber Music Trio Verlaine (Canada): Heidi Krutzen, Lorna McGhee, David Harding R. Murray Schafer: world première, Ravel/Morlock: Tombeau de Couperin, Jeffery Cotton: Six Departures |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm First Baptist Church |
Lecture: Power Performance Carrol McLaughlin (USA) Download Lecture Notes Here |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm Tom Lee Music Hall |
Lecture: Business of Music Stephanie Bennett (USA) Download Lecture Notes here |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Master Class: The Crown of Ariadne Judy Loman (Canada), R. Murray Schafer (Canada) |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Lecture/Recital: Jazz - Interpreting and Arranging Stacey Berkley (USA) Download lecture notes here |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm Sheraton Hotel Galiano Room |
Lecture: Financial Independence for Harpists Jan Jennings (USA) Download lecture notes here |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Concert: Duo, Solo
Ernestine Stoop /Astrid Haring (Netherlands) |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Lecture/Recital: Ancient Harps of the Mideast Bo Lawergren (USA), Tomoko Sugawara (USA)  |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:30pm – 10:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Evening Concert |
| 7:30 – 8:50 | International Prize - Winners' Concert Rino Kageyama (Japan) - 2010 USA International Harp Competition Best Concerto Performance Agnes Clement (France) - 2010 USA International Harp Competition Gold Medal Winner |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Harpa Bossa Cristina Braga (Brazil), bass Ricardo Medeiros (Brazil), drummer Sal Ferreras (Canada) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Labirinto Chiara Pedrazzetti, harp (Switzerland), Sean Lanigan, electric guitar (Ireland) |
| 8:00am - 7:30pm |
Registration Desk Open |
| 9:00am – 5:00pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:30am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Pavilion A |
Lecture: Surviving in between regulations! Jason Azem, Production Manager, Lyon & Healy |
| 9:00am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Coffee Concert: "Jewel Box" Mel Lauf (USA), Christie Reside, Nadia Kyne and Rosanne Wieringa (Canada), flutes Higdon: Music Box of Light for 3 flutes and harp Robin Best (Canada) Caroline Lizotte: Suite Galactique |
| 10:00am – 10:45am First Baptist Church |
Panel Discussion: Harpist/Composers' Panel Ruth Inglefield (USA), R. Murray Schafer (Canada), Garrett Byrnes (USA), Anne LeBaron, Caroline Lizotte (Canada), Michael Maganuco (USA) |
| 10:00am – 11:30am St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Focus on Youth |
| 11:00am – 11:45am Tom Lee Music Hall |
Concert: Let The Harp Sound! - Norwegian and Danish New Music Sunniva Wettre (Norway) |
| 11:00am – 11:45am First Baptist Church |
Lecture/Recital: The Small but Serious Harp Harper Tasche (USA) |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) & Shop at Exhibits |
| 12:00pm – 12:40pm Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Lunch Concert Benjamin Creighton Griffiths (Wales, UK) |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm Tom Lee Music Hall |
Plenary Session: General Membership Meeting |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Master Class: Music of Bernard Andrès Isabelle Perrin (France) |
| 3:00pm – 3:45pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Concert: JS Bach: Goldberg Variations Sylvain Blassel (France) |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm Vogue Theatre |
Concert: "Transformations"Suzuki Harp Ensemble - Creativity Unleashed! ShruDeLi Ownbey (USA), Mary Kay Waddington (USA)- Directors |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Concert: Travelling Patterns: Traditional Meets Contemporary Ann Yeung (USA), Marisela Gonzalez (Venezuela), Mercedes Gomez (Mexico), Sirin Pancaroglu (Turkey), Meric Dönük (Turkey) |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:30pm – 10:40pm Orpheum Theatre |
World of Harp Concertos, Blues and Techno Harp |
| 7:30 – 9:25 |  Evan Mitchell (Canada) conducting the Vancouver Symphony OrchestraChristoph Bielefeld (Germany) and Merve Kocabeyler (Turkey) Reinl: Impression et Jou Jou Katerina Englichová, harp, Vilém Veverka, oboe  (Czech Republic) Lutoslawski: Oboe and Harp Concerto Baltazar Juarez (Mexico) Boieldieu: Harp Concerto Ann Hobson Pilot (USA)/Susan Pejovich (USA)/ Paula Page (USA) Kaska: Knights of the Red Branch |
| 9:45 – 10:05 | Caroline Lizotte (Canada), Étienne Ratthé (Canada), timpani Lizotte: Techno Concerto |
| 10:15 – 10:40 | Brenda Dor-Groot (Netherlands), Michael Michalkow (Canada), drums, Laurence Mollerup (Canada), bass, Bryan Binnema (Canada), keyboard Blues: electric pitch-bending harp |
| 8:30am - 2:00pm | Registration Desk Open |
| 9:00am – 5:00pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:30am – 9:30am Junior Ballroom C |
"Aaa! My Harp is Broken!" (Survival Guide for Every Harpist) Aoyama Presentation |
| 8:30am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Granville Room |
Panel Discussion: The Acoustics of Harps Chris Waltham (Canada), Benjamin Elie (France), Jean-Loïc Le Carrou (France) |
| 9:00am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Coffee Concert: Katrina and Nandor Szederkenyi (Canada/Austria) Kimbell: Poème for violin and harp Isabelle Marie (France) and Jeanette Bernal (Mexico/Canada) Damase: Sonata for violine and harp |
| 10:00am – 11:30am St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Focus on Youth |
| 10:00am – 11:30am First Baptist Church |
Panel Discussion: Editing Orchestra Parts |
| 10:00am – 10:45am St. Paul's Anglican Church Labyrinth |
Yoga and Pilates for Harpists Danielle Perrett (England, UK) |
| 11:00am – 11:45am St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Lecture/Recital: Parish-Alvars: "Norma" Variations Jing-I Jang (Taiwan) Hindemith Sonata Florence Sitruk (Germany) |
| 12:00pm – 2:00pm | Lunch (on your own) & Shop at Exhibits |
| 12:00pm – 12:40pm Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Lunch Concert: Hongyun Konghou Ensemble Hong He (China), Shuhan Dong (China), Yirang Wang (China), Meixin Sun (China), Yu Zhang (China) |
| 2:00pm | Free Afternoon and tours |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:30pm – 10:45pm Vogue Theatre |
Evening Concert |
7:30 – 8:15 |
Winter Harp Alys Howe, Janelle Nadeau, harps, Caroline Markos, Lauri Lyster, Jeff Pelletier, Joaquin Ayala, Bruce Henczel |
8:30 – 9:30 |
Patrick Ball - O'Carolan's Farewell to Music - a solo musical theater piece performed by Celtic Harpist & Storyteller Patrick Ball written by Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer (USA) |
9:45 – 10:45 |
Jazz Concert Stacey Berkley (USA) |
| 8:30am - 5:00pm | Registration Desk Open |
| 8:30am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Galiano Room |
Hot Rods......or not (the not-so-hot job of replacing that broken rod) Otto Keyes (Canada) |
| 9:00am – 5:00pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 9:00am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Coffee Concert: Beating Harps: Harp and percussion Kristan Toczko (Canada), Daniel Tones (Canada), percussion Robin Engelman: Dance Movements for harp and marimba Lori Gemmell (Canada), Craig Scott (Canada), steel drum Kevin Fox: World premiere Margaret Ashburner: Small Rooms |
| 10:00am – 11:30am St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Focus on Youth |
| 10:00am – 10:45am First Baptist Church |
Lecture/Recital: History of Argentine Music Marcela Mendez (Argentina) |
| 11:00am – 11:45am First Baptist Church |
Lecture/Recital: African and Asian harps Rüdiger Opperman (France) |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) & Shop at Exhibits |
| 12:00pm – 12:40pm Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Concert: Debussy Trio Marcia Dickstein (USA), harp, Angela Wiegand (USA), flute, David Walther, viola (USA) David Evan Thomas: In the Blue Glen, B.Broughton: World Première |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Concert: Four Seasons Quartet Lori Gemmell (Canada), Caroline Leonardelli (Canada), Caroline Lizotte (Canada), Jennifer Swartz (Canada) |
| 1:30pm – 2:15pm Tom Lee Music Hall |
Lecture: More than a Lecture - Suzuki Teaching and What Makes it Work Mary Kay Waddington (USA), ShruDeLi Ownbey (USA) |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Master Class: A Ceremony of Carols Karen Vaughan (England, UK) |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Concert: Cape Breton harp duo Alys Howe (Canada) and Seumas Gagne (USA) Traditional dance tunes and Puirt-a-Beul (mouth music) from Eastern Canada and Scotland |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Concert Emily Mitchell (USA) CPE Bach: Sonata Natalia Shameyeva (Russia) Valeri Kikta: Sonata #2 "Bylina Scales" in E flat Major Mickhail Glinka: Nocturne "Separation" Sergei Slonimsky: Russian Toccata Ekaterina Walter-Kuhne arr. M. Agazarian: Fantasy on Themes of the opera "Eugene Onegin" by P. Tchaikowsky |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Breton Lever Harp Concert Anne Postic (France) Generous donation provided by Puget Sound Folk Harp Society |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:30pm – 9:30pm Vogue Theatre |
Evening Concert |
7:30 – 8:15 |
Jazz: Harp Summit: Park Stickney (USA/Switzerland), Rüdiger Opperman (Germany/France) with
bassist Ricardo Medeiros and drummer Kristian Alexandrov |
8:35 – 8:40 |
Latin American Concert: Eastman Chamber Ensemble Megan Sesma (USA), Julie Spring (USA), Louise Vickerman (USA), Marguerite Lynn Williams (USA), Sharlene Wallace (Canada) Alfredo Rolando Ortiz: Venezolana for 5 pedal harps |
8:45 – 9:30 |
"Duelling Harps" Eduardo Betancourt (Venezuela), Celso padre and Celso hijo Duarte (Paraguay/Mexico) |
| 8:00am - 9:00am | Exhibitor's Meeting |
| 8:30am - 5:00pm | Registration Desk Open |
| 8:30am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Galiano Room |
Lecture: Ask the Regulator Peter Wiley (USA) |
| 9:00am – 5:00pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 9:00am - 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Coffee Concert: Pictures on Silence Duo (USA) - Jacqueline Pollauf, harp, Dr. Noah Getz, sax RagHarps (Switzerland) - Johanna Fullemann, Leonora Kugler, Francesca Pesenti: Mahalia Kelz's arrangements of ragtime pieces for 3 harps |
| 10:00am – 11:30am St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Focus on Youth |
| 10:00am – 11:30am First Baptist Church |
Panel Discussion: Hand position and relaxation for better playing and preventing injury Lieve Robbroeckx (Belgium), Alison Austin (USA), Carol Duffy (USA), Alfredo Ortiz (Cuba/USA), Roxane Martin (France) |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) & Shop at Exhibits |
| 12:00pm – 12:40pm Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Concert: Renaissance to Early Baroque Music Therese Honey (USA) |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Concert: Tribute to Ceren Necipoglu Sebla Akbulut (Turkey), Emel Celik (Turkey), Maire Ni Chathasaigh (Ireland), Meric Dönük (Turkey), Benjamin Creighton Griffiths (Wales, UK), Elif Gungor (Turkey), Baltazar Juarez (Mexico), Lavinia Meijer (Netherlands), Nur H. Orak (Turkey), Sirin Pancaroglu (Turkey), Florence Sitruk (Germany), Ece G. Yavas (Turkey), Ann Yeung (USA) |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Concert: Gone to Sun Michelle Gott (USA), Caroline Cole (Canada), Charles Gott (USA), percussion, Roderick Gorby (USA), keyboard, Sean Rice (USA), clarinet, Dylan Palmer (Canada), bass Gorby: Gone to Sun for harps, vocals, clarinet, keyboard, percussion, bass Duo Milonga (Poland): Aneta Janiszewska, hp, Konrad Salwinski, accordion Astor Piazzolla: Transcriptions for harp and accordion |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Master Class: Marie Pierre Langlamet (Germany) |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Concert Dolce Duo (Brazil): Cristina Carvalho and Luciana Morato Jennifer Swartz (Canada) |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Recital Arpello Duo: Ina Zdovoretchi, harp (Romania/USA) and Holgen Gjoni, cello (USA) |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Kim Robertson & Sharlene Wallace: Contemporary Lever Harps Kim Robertson (USA), Sharlene Wallace (Canada) and George Koller (acoustic bass) solo & duo arrangements of Celtic, South American & original melodies |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:30pm – 10:15pm Orpheum Theatre |
Gala Harp Concertos and Spindrift (world/jazz) |
7:30 – 9:30 |
Evan Mitchell (Canada) conducting the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Kyo-Jin Lee (Korea) Elizabeth Hainen (USA) Alice Giles (Australia) Kristan Toczko (Canada) |
9:45 – 10:15 |
Spindrift Jazz/pop Maria Palatine (Belgium) Vern Griffiths, percussion (Canada) |
| 8:30am - 1:30pm | Registration Desk Open |
| 9:00am – 1:30pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:30am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Galiano Room |
Lecture: Tips and guidelines for deriving the most benefit from your harp regulation Ed Galchick (USA) |
| 9:00am – 9:30am Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Coffee Concert: I-sis Trio: Katryna Tan, harp (Singapore) Con Brio - Asian and jazzy selections |
| 10:00am – 11:30am St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Concert: Young Talents Seika Dong (USA), Kyoko Okuda (Japan), Noel Wan (USA), Elizaveta Mernaya (Russia) |
| 10:00am – 11:30am St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Panel Discussion: Composing + Arranging for Lever Harp Sharlene Wallace (Canada); Kim Robertson (USA), Meg Robinson (USA), Sunita Staneslow (Israel), Chiara Pedrazetti (Switzerland) |
| 11:00am – 11:45am First Baptist Church |
Lecture/Recital: Russian ballet cadenzas Anna Levina (Russia) |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) & Shop at Exhibits |
| 12:00pm – 12:40pm Sheraton Hotel Atrium |
Concert Alex Bonnet (Netherlands), and mezzo-soprano Caroline Markos (Canada) Haim Permont: Songs of Love and remembrance (world premiere) Mariano Gonzalez (Paraguay), and shakuhachi player Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos (Japan/Canada) Paraguayan Harp Concert |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Lecture/Recital: Baroque style and the Handel Harp Concerto Maxine Eilander (USA) on triple-strung harp with Pacific Baroque Orchestra 1st violins: Paul Luchkow, Jenny Essers, Masako Matsumoto 2nd violins: Angela Malmberg, Arthur Neele Viola: Glenys Webster Cello: Nathan Whittaker Recorders: Liz Hamel, Karen Epp |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm St. Paul's Anglican Church |
Concert Unsung Songs: music by women composers - Songs from the late 18th and early 19th century for voice and harp Isabel Moreton Achsel, harp (Germany) with Ute Schulze, soprano Katerina Gima (Greece), Andreas Papanikoilaou (Greece), violin Simos Papanas: Sonata for Violin and Harp |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Master Class: Jana Bouskova (Czech Republic) |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm Vogue Theatre |
Recital: White Nights: Scottish Harp and Fiddle Virtuosity Catriona Mckay (Scotland, UK), harp and fiddler Chris Stout (Scotland, UK) |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Recital with Marie-Pierre Langlamet Marie Pierre Langlamet (Germany)/ Naoko Yoshino (Japan)/ Lara St. John, violin (Canada) |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm Vogue Theatre |
Recital: Irish Harp through the Centuries Maire ni Chathasaigh (Ireland)  |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:30pm – 9:30pm St. Andrew's Wesley Church |
Chamber Harp Concertos Mieko Inoue (Japan) Belgrade Harp Quartet (Serbia) |
| 10:00pm | Fireworks |
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