Anne Denholm

Anne Denholm
Anne Denholm
Birth name Anne Denholm
Born (1991-07-29) 29 July 1991
Origin Carmarthen, Wales
Genres Classical
Contemporary Classical
Harp
Occupation(s) Harpist
Website Anne Denholm

Anne Denholm is a Welsh harpist [1] born in Carmarthenshire,[2] the fifth Official Harpist to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.[3]

Education

Denholm was educated at Ysgol Gynradd y Dderwen and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin. She then went on to study at the Junior Department of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the Purcell School and Newnham College, Cambridge University.

Denholm recently received her Master’s in 2015 from the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) with distinction, graduating with the Renata Scheffel-Stein Harp Prize, the Sir Reginald Thatcher prize and a Regency Award for notable achievement. Whilst at the Royal Academy, she was the first harpist to win the historic RAM Club Prize, twice winner of the Skaila Kanga Harp Prize, and holder of a Headley Trust Award and the John Thomas Scholarship.

Career

In July 2015 she was appointed Official Harpist to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, the fifth artist to hold this position since its reinstatement in 2000.

Denholm is a founding member of contemporary quartet, The Hermes Experiment, who regularly commission new works and arrangements for their idiosyncratic combination of instruments (clarinet, soprano voice, harp and double bass), as well as performing live free improvisation.

In Autumn 2014, she was a founding member of the Kuljit Bhamra Ensemble was launched, which comprised Tabla, Indian voice, Clarinet, Marimba and Harp. The ensemble create their own repertoire that explores the boundaries and bridges between Indian classical and Western classical musics.

See also

Official Harpists to the Prince of Wales

References

  1. ↑ Start Btn. Anne. Start Btn & the Hermes Project. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
  2. ↑ British Broadcasting Corporation - Article : south-west-wales published 8 July 2015 [Retrieved 2015-07-28]
  3. ↑ homepage published by Anne Denholm [Retrieved 2015-07-28]

External links

Court offices
Preceded by
Hannah Stone		 Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales
2015-Present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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