Alice Giles Harp Workshop South Australia May 17th 2025

WORKSHOP HEALTHY HARP PLAYING 

PLEASE BRING YOUR HARP (LEVER OR PEDAL) TO PARTICIPATE

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ALICE GILES AM - Harpist

"The most intelligent, sensitive and technically accomplished harpist I have ever met." Luciano Berio

Alice Giles has been celebrated as one of the world’s leading harp soloists. Alice presented her debut recital in Sydney at the age of 13 and won First Prize in the 8th Israel International Harp Contest 1982, followed by recitals in Merkin Hall, New York and Wigmore Hall, London.

Regarded by Luciano Berio as the foremost interpreter of his Sequenza II, she has taken part in tributes to Berio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Salzburg Mozarteum, and at the 92nd Street Y. She has given many premiere performances for her instrument, the most recent being a new solo show with lighting "Phoenix Angel". Alice commissioned a complete program of works for the electro-acoustic harp and was Director of the Seven Harp Ensemble (SHE), which has toured and recorded many new works by Australian composers.

As a recipient of an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, she performed a solo concert at Mawson Station in 2011 commemorating the Centenary of the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition. She has presented the multi-media program "Alice in Antarctica" in San Francisco, Oslo, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Alice was invited by Rudolf Serkin to participate for three summers in the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, USA, and has been a guest artist at numerous festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein and Insel Hombroich Festivals in Germany, Bath Mozartfest, Scotia Festival, Salzedo Centennial in Austin Texas, World Harp Congresses in Copenhagen and Vancouver, World Harp Festival Cardiff, Edinburgh Harp Festival, Adelaide Festival, Sydney Festival, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Barossa, Coriole, Huntington, Four Winds and UKARIA Festivals.

Concert highlights include solo recitals in New York’s 92nd Street Y, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, and concertos with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium Musicum Zürich, Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, English Symphony Orchestra, Mainzer Kammerorchester, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hamburg Mozart Orchestra, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra and regularly with all the major Australian Symphony and Chamber orchestras.

She was the Chair and the Artistic Director of the 2014 World Harp Congress in Sydney in July 2014 and is founder and director of the Harp Centre Australia, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the harp in Australia.

Her discography includes several solo harp discs, a concerto disc with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (conductor David Porcelijn), and many chamber music discs including with Duo Corda (Arnan Wiesel, piano), the Budapest Brass Quintet, Seven Harp Ensemble, Australia Ensemble, and Geoffrey Collins (flute).

Alice was awarded an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours for “significant service to the performing arts as a harpist, mentor and educator, and through contributions to Australia’s musical landscape.”

www.alicegiles.com

This workshop is sponsored by 

CARTER HARPS AUSTRALIA: www.carterharpsaustralia.com.au

More information about Alice Giles is available at: www.alicegiles.com