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The Harp School

Group and Private Lessons
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K-Gr1 - The Angel’s Harp™ Beginner Group Harp

(The Angel’s Harp™ -- First Class Harp™)

12 UNITS, Term Tuition: $500

  • 10 group instruction units [10 30-min group lessons -- materials included]
  • 1 musical discovery unit [1 10-week parent guided listening project]
  • 1 performance unit [1 recital with same-day rehearsal]     

Gr2-Gr5 - Elementary School Private Harp I

(The Angel’s Harp™ Bk 1/Bk 2)

20 UNITS, Term Tuition: $1110

  • 15 private instruction units [10 45-min individual lessons]
  • 1 musical discovery unit [1 10-week parent-guided listening project]
  • 2 group learning units [2 on-camera Starer rhythm classes]
  • 2 performance units [1 ensemble rehearsal • 1 recital]     

Gr2-Gr5 - Elementary School Private Harp II

(The Angel’s Harp™ Bk 3, ABRSM Grades 1-3)
20+ UNITS, Term Tuition: $1255

  • 15 30-min private instruction units [10 45-min private lessons]
  • 1 group learning unit [1 on-camera Starer rhythm class]
  • 2 technique units [2 on-camera harp technique classes]
  • 2 performance units [1 ensemble rehearsal • 1 recital]
  • video performance preparation reviews as needed for ABRSM exam and competition preparation

Gr5-Gr12 Beginning Concert Harp

(The Accelerated Angel’s Harp™, ABRSM Grades 1-3)

24+ UNITS, Term Tuition: $1400

  • 18 30-min private instruction units [9 60-min private lessons]
  • 2 group learning units [2 on-camera Starer rhythm classes]
  • 2 technique units [2 on-camera harp technique classes]
  • 2 performance units [1 ensemble rehearsal • 1 recital]
  • video performance preparation reviews guided by teacher for ABRSM exam and competition  

Gr6-Gr12 Intermediate Concert Harp

(ABRSM Grades 4-5)

24+ UNITS, Term Tuition: $1500            

  • 18 30-min private instruction units [9 60-min private lessons]
  • 4 technique units [4 on-camera harp technique classes]
  • 2 performance units [1 ensemble rehearsal • 1 recital]
  • video performance preparation reviews guided by teacher for ABRSM exams and competitions
  • additional ensemble and solo performance opportunities throughout the community

Gr6-Gr12 Advanced Concert Harp

(ABRSM Grades 6-8)

25+ UNITS, Term Tuition: $1600

  • 20 30-min private instruction units [10 60-min private lessons]
  • 3 performance preparation units [3 online performance classes]
  • 2 performance units [1 ensemble rehearsal • 1 recital]
  • video performance preparation reviews guided by teacher for ABRSM exams and competitions
  • additional ensemble and solo performance opportunities throughout the community

Instructors

Carol McClure

Carol McClure

Carol McClure, BA, MCM, founder/director of The Harp School learning program for beginning through professional harpists and founder/director ABRSM National Summer Harp Academy, University Lecturer in Harp, is a concert and recording harpist, competition-preparation specialist teacher, international adjudicator, composer, editor, arranger, conductor., and church musician. A harp student of Marcel Grandjany and Mildred Dilling, and a prize-winner in both concert harp and Celtic harp competitions, Carol’s career has taken her to the UK, Europe, the Caribbean, and both American continents as solo recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral player, master teacher and competition judge. With a career spanning three decades as a busy Nashville recording session musician, Carol has also produced a discography of more than twenty solo recordings, (sacred, classical, and seasonal) for both US and UK labels. Author of The Angel’s Harp™ curriculum for beginning harpists, in use around the world and recently adopted as the official harp curriculum of the Music Institute of Chicago, Carol has built a career teaching beginning through professional students, preparing them to win auditions and competitions, including coveted entries and scholarships to major conservatories in North America and the UK, principal chairs in national youth orchestras, awards and prizes in major national and international. Her students routinely win principal chairs in local youth orchestras and all-state orchestras. Carol and husband Wes Ramsay are Representatives of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools