She has been a recital soloist and chamber performer at such reputable programs as Connecticut’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, the Trinity College Summer Concert Series, and Hartford’s New World Chamber Ensemble series. She has co-founded and arranged music for her flute and harp duos, and flute, harp and cello trios.
As an orchestral harpist, Susan has enjoyed a long relationship with the The Hartford Symphony, and was their featured concerto soloist in June of 2008, performing Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto with principal flutist, Grieg Shearer. She also plays regularly for the Waterbury Symphony, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and performed as harpist for the U.S. Coast Guard Band from 1987-2002. Ms. Thomas regularly plays touring shows for the Bushnell and the Shubert Theaters in Hartford and New Haven, CT, and frequently for Frank Sinatra Jr. and other well known celebrities.
Ms. Thomas, a passionate harp instructor and coach, runs a vigorous harp studio in Connecticut, in addition to her role as faculty member for MusicMakers Academy in Manchester, Trinity College, and Central Connecticut State University. She has coached varied configurations of student ensembles at both the Hartford Conservatory and MusicMakers, and has developed, marketed and run her own student summer course and harp ensemble programs since 2002. An experienced administrator, Ms. Thomas was the Summer Program Coordinator at the Hartford Conservatory from 1999-2002. Her students were first and second and third prize winners in the American Harp Society Connecticut Chapter Harp Competition in the spring of 2005, and 1st and 2nd prize competition winners in 2002.
For more information on Susan Knapp Thomas, harpist, go to: www.harppro.com.
Each December since 1994, Teresa has performed daily at the famed Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts where Yankee Magazine has featured her in their Christmas issue. She plays regularly at other resorts and at hotels from Albany to Nantucket and from the Adirondacks to Connecticut. In the Berkshires she often plays for holidays and special occasions at The Red Lion Inn, Cranwell Resort, The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Blantyre, and Wheatleigh.
Ms. Mango has been a regular guest artist at New York Hudson River Historic sites from Olana and Claremont to Montgomery Place and the Senate House in Kingston. In the Berkshires she has been featured at the Norman Rockwell Museum and The Clark Art Institute. Teresa is a featured artist on the "Summer in the Garden" music series at Naumkeag in Stockbridge, MA.
In addition to solo programs, Teresa continues to perform chamber music and major works in the repetoire written for harp and chorus. Her orchestral experience includes performances with orchestras throughout southern New England and New York including Hartford Symphony, Albany Symphony, Berkshire Symphony and Pioneer Valley Symphony. She has played with Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, Barrington Stage in the Berkshires, The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck and The New York Theater Institute.
Ms. Mango resides in Great Barrington, MA. She has a formal classical training with a Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music. Teresa is associate faculty at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT, teaches harp at The Taft School in Watertown, CT, Westover School in Middlebury,CT and Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, MA, and she maintains a private teaching studio at her residence.
For more information on Teresa Mango, go to www.theharp.org.
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