AHS 2024 National Conference

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AHS 2024 National Conference

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7:00am EDT

Yoga Peninsula 1Alix Raspé Gray

8:30am EDT

Approaches to Playing Bach on Lever and Pedal Harps Biscayne 1Dr. Anne-Marie O'Farrell • Dr. Laura Sherman Jazz Harmony for the Classically Trained Biscayne 3Felice Pomeranz Performing Venezuelan Music Biscayne 2Leonard Jácome Master Class: Harp Quartet Arranging Merritt 1 & 2Willi Maerz • HarpBeats • Jaymee Haefner

9:00am EDT

Mock Orchestra Audition Peninsula 1Ann Hobson Pilot • Abigail Kent

9:30am EDT

Looping Biscayne 2Nikolaz Cadoret • Ben Creighton Griffiths • Leonard Jácome New Lever Harp Notation Biscayne 1Dr. Anne-Marie O'Farrell

1:30pm EDT

Harp Care & Safety Biscayne 1David Kolacny • Jason Azem • Peter Anderson • Dr. Steve Guerra Secrets of Pedagogy Biscayne 2Elzbieta Szmyt Venezuelan music, fusion music & arranging Peninsula 1Eduardo Betancourt Celtic Harp Circle with Nikolaz Cadoret Merritt 1 & 2Nikolaz Cadoret

2:30pm EDT

Ann Hobson Pilot & the Music of John Williams Biscayne 2Michael Maganuco • Ann Hobson Pilot Six Steps to Basic Arranging Biscayne 3Jan Jennings The Harp Ensemble in Education Biscayne 1Lydia Cleaver • Maurice Draughn • Jaymee Haefner • Charles W. Lynch • Joseph Rebman • John Wickey

7:00am EDT

Yoga Peninsula 1Alix Raspé Gray

8:30am EDT

Harmony in Marketing: Tuning Up Your Brand for Success Biscayne 1Nichole Rohrbach-McKenzie Om is Where the Harp Is Peninsula 1Alix Raspé Gray The Legacy of Dorothy Ashby & Alice Coltrane Biscayne 2Alison Reese • Brandee Younger William Marx's Concerto For Two Harps and Orchestra Biscayne 3Dr. Jaclyn Wappel • Dr. Colleen Potter Thorburn

9:30am EDT

IDEA Round Table Peninsula 1IDEA Committee • Johanny Navarro Music of Latin America Biscayne 2Eduardo Betancourt • Leonard Jácome • Mónica Gallego Tech Aids: Apps, Social Media & Software for Harpists Biscayne 1Kristina Finch • Kristen Elizabeth Hoyos Think it, do it, finish it! Biscayne 3Kimberly Rowe • Alison Reese

1:30pm EDT

Business for Harpists Q & A Session Biscayne 2Kimberly Rowe • Kristina Finch • Kristen Elizabeth Hoyos • Alison Reese • Nichole Rohrbach-McKenzie Harpists in Women's Orchestras and All-Girl Bands Biscayne 3Emily Laurance Improvisation Peninsula 1Nikolaz Cadoret New World Symphony Panel Biscayne 1Dr. Laura Sherman • Abigail Kent • Christine Van Arsdale • Janet Harriman

2:30pm EDT

Memories of Camden & The Teaching of Alice Chalifoux Peninsula 1 Notation Software Biscayne 2Christopher Green • Rachel Green • Dr. Steve Guerra Playing Pain Free: A Guide to Early Identification & Prevention of Injury at the Harp. Biscayne 3Kai Rasmussen • Angela Schwarzkopf Working with Composers Biscayne 1Sara Cutler • Dr. Laura Sherman • Charles Norman Mason • Elisa Torres • Johanny Navarro • Dr. Stella Sung • Kristina Finch • Dannel Espinoza

7:00am EDT

Yoga Peninsula 1Alix Raspé Gray

8:30am EDT

AHS Grants Peninsula 1Kela Walton • Karen Lindquist Chapter Ambassador Projects Biscayne 3Chapter Ambassadors The "Exotic" in the Music of Marcel Tournier Biscayne 2Alexander Rider Zabaleta in Columbia Biscayne 1Mónica Gallego

9:30am EDT

Elements of Puerto Rican Bomba Rhythms for Harp and Cello Biscayne 1Johanny Navarro • Elisa Torres • Luis Miguel Rojas Introduction to Jazz Merritt 1 & 2Ben Creighton Griffiths Strategies for Practicing Sight Reading Biscayne 2Phala Tracy