About The London Wedding Harpist – professional wedding harpist based in London, UK
The London Wedding Harpist is an experienced and versatile freelance harpist based in London.
She is a talented Portuguese harpist who has performed widely in all the most prestigious venues in Portugal and broadcast live for the national classical music radio station.
Her performances also include recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Harp on Wight Festival and at the Proms at St. Jude’s Music Festival.
I'm regularly booked to perform for weddings and events at The Bentall Centre in Kingston upon Thames.
The London Wedding Harpist is a winner of the Guy Magrath Harp Prize, the Casa da Musica Prize, the Yamaha prize and an International prize winner in the Camac Harp Competition in London and the International Harp Competition in Szeged.
She has also won the Young Musicians Awards in Portugal in the category of chamber music.
The London Wedding Harpist has also been a Finalist at the Patrons Awards, Royal Academy of Music, London.
She is passionate about chamber music and working closely in small ensembles which has led her to establish several groups such as her duo with tenor Kieran White, Portucale Trio with flute and viola, 94 Strings Duo with harpist Glain Dafydd and a duo with violinist Beatriz Rola.
She has been invited to play with numerous orchestras including the Orquestra Gulbenkian, the Royal Orchestral Society, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Bloomsbury Opera Orchestra, and the Academy Symphony Orchestra, working with prestigious conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Semyon Bychkov, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Pedro Neves, Christopher Warren-Green, Manuel Lopez-Gomez and Eugene Corporon.
She has also toured Portugal with the Orquestra XXI with emerging conductor Dinis Sousa and the Estágio Gulbenkian Orquestra under the baton of conductor Joana Carneiro.
The London Wedding Harpist graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2015 and with a Master of Arts with Distinction in 2017 under tutelage of Professor Karen Vaughan and Professor Emerita Skaila Kanga, supported with a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Santander Universities UK and the Golden Charitable Trust.
"Exceptional, was so happy with the service and The London Wedding Harpist was a lovely very talented harpist, couldn’t recommend her enough!"
"The London Wedding Harpist was punctual, played amazing music and was really helpful. I can't recommend her enough."
"The London Wedding Harpist is a beautiful, professional and highly talented young lady. We had her for my wife’s 50th birthday and we cannot praise her enough, she played some difficult pieces that we requested and played her harp beautifully, she is truly fantastic and we think she will be a super star of the future. Personally she is very easy to chat with, which is amazing for such a young person. We wish you a wonderful and highly successful life. Love Jeff & Dawn xx"
"The London Wedding Harpist is polite and friendly. She played our requested pieces and the music was beautiful, it really made our day! I would highly recommend her."
"The London Wedding Harpist was absolutely wonderful! She was professional and accommodating and played everything that we requested (even some obscure songs). She made the day perfect and we only wished that we'd provided a smoother set-up for her. We cannot recommend her enough!"
"She was very polite and played everything which we have asked her to play."
Prelude no.1 - Bach
The Swan - Saint-Saëns
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Traditional Bridal March - Wagner
Wedding March - Mendelssohn
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Ave Maria - Gounod
Ave Maria - Shubert
Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach
Greensleeves (Traditional)
Claire de Lune - Debussy
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
When you wish upon a star (Pinocchio)
My prince will come (Snow White)
Glasgow love theme (Love Actually)
Over the rainbow (Wizard of Oz)
I dreamed a dream (Les Miserables)
Bring him home (Les Miserables)
Memory (Cats)
The music of the night (Phantom of the opera)
My favourite things (The Sound of Music)
Don't cry for me Argentina (Avita)
A thousand years (Twilight Saga)
One Call Away - Charlie Puth
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Marry You - Bruno Mars
All of Me - John Legend
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Hey Jude - Beatles
Yesterday - Beatles
Let it be - Beatles
Morning has broken - Cat Stevens
Ain't misbehavin'
Autumn Leaves
Fly me to the moon
My funny Valentine
Misty
Moon river