Dr Janet Harbison Email & Phone Number

Dublin

London, United Kingdom

Performer, composer and music publisher. Director of The Irish Harp Orchestra (professional touring stage production) and leisure and professional harp training for Irish, Celtic and lever harp players.

Magee College, Derry, Londonderry

Academic position furthering specialism in Irish Music Pedagogy

World-touring Irish stage production (26 artistes) featuring a unique and contemporary concert of Irish harpers, musicians, singers and dancers; evolved from the multy-award-winning Belfast Harp Orchestra (including a Grammy Award with the Chieftains 1993). See www.irishharporchestra.com

Limerick

Performer on the Irish Harp, composer, teacher and director of the Irish Harp Orchestra

Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

The Irish Harp Centre (2002-2016) was a residential harp college and training centre also serving as a music school to the Limerick East region. At the Harp Centre in 2014, six Harp Centre trained teachers serviced over 100 harp students in regular weekly lessons, gaining stage experience with the Irish Youth Harp Orchestra and professional touring experience with the Irish Harp Orchestra. At the College, up to 3 full-time apprentices each year prepared for full-time harp careers in stage and… Show more The Irish Harp Centre (2002-2016) was a residential harp college and training centre also serving as a music school to the Limerick East region. At the Harp Centre in 2014, six Harp Centre trained teachers serviced over 100 harp students in regular weekly lessons, gaining stage experience with the Irish Youth Harp Orchestra and professional touring experience with the Irish Harp Orchestra. At the College, up to 3 full-time apprentices each year prepared for full-time harp careers in stage and studio performance, corporate musicianship, ceremonial performing, palliative therapy and teacher training. The College operated its own syllabus and examination system (with the Harbison Method) and many graduates are now prominent players nationally and internationally. Show less

Limerick

Directed the Brian Boru Millennium Harp Festival in Limerick - an extraordinary week of international harping collaboration supporting Harbison's orchestral suite: 'Brian Boru, Lion of Ireland'. Performed by almost 100 harpers, with the voices (of Maire Keary-Scanlan's Limerick choirs and the Gunas from Clonlara) and the Limerick Pipe Band with solos: Ann Heymann (Early Irish Harp), Shane Lillis (Pipes) and vocal solos: Siobhan Egan, myself and Costas Koutsikouris performed in St.Mary's… Show more Directed the Brian Boru Millennium Harp Festival in Limerick - an extraordinary week of international harping collaboration supporting Harbison's orchestral suite: 'Brian Boru, Lion of Ireland'. Performed by almost 100 harpers, with the voices (of Maire Keary-Scanlan's Limerick choirs and the Gunas from Clonlara) and the Limerick Pipe Band with solos: Ann Heymann (Early Irish Harp), Shane Lillis (Pipes) and vocal solos: Siobhan Egan, myself and Costas Koutsikouris performed in St.Mary's Cathedral through the week August 18 to 24, 2014. With no funding support from Limerick City of Culture or the Arts Council, it was nevertheless a phenomenal week and a celebration befitting of a millennium. Show less

Registered charitable community organisation supporting harping activities in Northern Ireland comprising harp schools in 8 locations across the province and management of the Belfast Harp Orchestra.

Responsible for advising Dept of Education and training teachers and students in N Ireland secondary schools on Irish music curriculum in GCSE, building a music and performing arts archive and managing an annual calendar of festivals and events representing region's folk traditions.

Company organising a year of festivities (including the BELFAST WORLD HARP FESTIVAL, events and exhibitions commemorating the Bicentenary of the Belfast Harper's Assembly of 1792)

Research into the role of music in Irish society in revolutionary times

D. Lit., Irish Music

P.G. Dip.Cultural Management, Cultural Management

Phd, Social Anthropology / Ethnomusicology

Pending

Education record

Transferred from MA Cork to PhD programme in Queen's University, Belfast 1984

M.A., Music

B.A., Music, Psychology

Activities and Societies: College Singers, TCD Choral Society, Central Music Society