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Harpist Carol McClure in Concert - Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 4:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church/Nashville presents Harpist, Carol McClure in concert on Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Carol McClure, internationally acclaimed concert harpist and composer, and member of First Presbyterian Church, will present a free recital on Sunday afternoon, October 29, at 4:00. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, she studied with renowned teachers Marcel Grandjany of The Juilliard School and concert artist Mildred Dilling, earned two American Harp Society National Compeition awards by age fourteen, and began her international solo concert career at age sixteen, performing in Europe. A competition winner in both classical and Celtic harp performance, she has held positions as harpist with symphony, chamber, ballet, opera and pops orchestras in Louisville, Glasgow, New Orleans and Atlanta. She has performed solo recitals throughout the United States, in Great Britain, Europe, Bermuda, the Caribbean and South America. Carol McClure's solo recording catalog includes sixteen releases. Coventry Music serves as her record label.
Also an active composer, Ms. McClure received grants from the Mary and Barry Bingham Fund for two bicentennial commissions for major orchestral works, Song of Kentucky and A Kentucky Overture. Recent commissions and premieres by the Nashville Boychoir at Vanderbilt University include Kentucky Shaker community based anthems for treble voices and harp, and the anthem Antiphon, based on a text by the late Tennessee Poet Laureate Paul Ramsey.
Currently, Carol McClure serves as national Artistic Director of The Harp School, Inc., teaching in Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville and Knoxville, Artistic Director of the Summer Harp Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, and, along with her husband Wes Ramsay, as regional representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. The October 29th program will include rarely performed Victorian works by Charles Oberthur, along with contemporary British and American selections for solo harp by David Watkins and Carol McClure, as well as newly commissioned pieces for harp and organ by Yorkminster Director of Music Philip Moore and 2006 MTNA National Composition Competition winner Parker Ramsay. Parker Ramsay will perform on the recital.
For more information about this and other concerts at First Presbyterian Church, contact Daphne Garey at music@fpcnashville.org.
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