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Danielle
is renowned both as a soloist and as a chamber music player. She gained
diplomas in harp playing whilst still at school just five years after
taking up the instrument, which she studied with Daphne Boden (at school
and the Royal College of Music Junior Department) and later with Renata
Scheffel-Stein (while studying for her BMus at Exeter University) and
she can trace her harpist tuition lineage back to several of the great
virtuoso harpist-composers of the 19th century.
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Subsequently,
she gained a Master’s degree in Performance & Related Studies at
Goldsmiths’ College, London University. She specialises in solo and
chamber music on both modern and late eighteenth century harps and her
recordings have been highly acclaimed.
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Danielle’s
career has seen her perform solo and chamber music in the USA,
Australasia, South East Asia, Africa and all over Europe. She has also
worked with students and their teachers around the world giving
masterclasses and workshops as well as adjudicating. She composes, edits
and arranges harp music, writes articles and reviews about harp related
and other musical topics as well as researching the instrument and its
repertoire from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
An examiner for Trinity College, London, Danielle devised their
international harp syllabuses. Danielle has broadcast a great deal
internationally as
well as appearing in films such as Persuasion and Rough
Crossings.
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Danielle’s
interest in good posture and healthy performance practice also led to
her becoming a qualified Pilates teacher and she teaches this to
harpists and other musicians. She is a Liveryman of the Worshipful
Company of Musicians.
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Danielle’s
recital programmes offer an attractive and wide-ranging repertoire from
Classical to Jazz and traditional and offers a wide range of themes.
Danielle is passionate about her instrument and its music and she
conveys that with persuasion, fun and wit to her listeners, occasionally
regaling them with one of the many funny and even bizarre moments which
such a varied and exciting career has included. |
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