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Lively and engaging as a performer, Danielle Perrett has provided the music  for some of this country’s highest profile events and people. She has played on many occasions for the Royal family including for their special birthdays. From Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Versailles to concerto soloist at major international concert halls such as the Musikverein in Vienna and the Wigmore Hall in London, Danielle’s solo recital career spans the globe.

"thoughtful musicianship and keen interpretative intellect"

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.
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.
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.
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.
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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