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| Susan Knapp Thomas | |||||||||||||||||
| Susan Knapp Thomas, harpist, received her Bachelors Degree from the Eastman School of Music, and is a well-known Chamber, Orchestral and Solo Concert Artist and Instructor throughout Connecticut and Southern New England. She has been a recital soloist and chamber performer at such reputable programs as Connecticuts Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, the Trinity College Summer Concert Series, and Hartfords New World Chamber Ensemble series. She has co-founded and arranged music for her flute and harp duos, and flute, harp and cello trios. |
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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 Mozarts 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. For more information on Susan Knapp Thomas, harpist, go to: www.harppro.com. |
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| Megan Sesma | |||||||||||||||||
| A versatile performer in the mediums of orchestral and harp chamber music and as a film session musician, Megan Sesma has performed in venues that range from Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow Russia, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Carnegie Hall and numerous concert halls in South America. | |||||||||||||||||
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Her experience has placed her under the batons of some of music's greatest luminaries, including conductors ranging from Neeme Jarvi and Yuri Termirkanov to John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith. No less an innovator when it comes to the harp's expressive and stylistic possibilities, Ms. Sesma has also shared the stage with such legends of contemporary and popular music as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall and Dianne Reeves. |
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