Jennifer Higdon: Harp Concerto

With the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Atlanta Symphony Hall

March 20 and 22, 2025, 8 pm

 

Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta

First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, 12 pm

Music by Debussy, Piazzolla, Ravel, and Tournier

 

The Merian Ensemble debut album “The Book of Spells”

Release date August 2, 2024

All world premiere recordings of works by Assad, Chamberlain, Higdon, Kouyoumdjian, Lanzilotti, Newbold, Osberg, and Plowman.

Meeting House Chamber Music Festival, Cape Cod, MA An evening of piano, horn, and harp

Grand Teton Music Festival: Benoliel Chamber Music Series

Walk Festival Hall
Wednesday, July 10, 7 pm

Debussy: Danses Sacrée et Profane

Grand Teton Music Festival: On the Road at Teton County Library in Jackson, WY. Solo harp. Music by Assad, Bonis, Godinez, and Salzedo

Chamber Music Athens      https://www.chambermusicathens.org Performances of Debussy’s Trio for flute, harp, and viola and Saint-Saens “Fantaisie” Day Chapel, Botanical Garden, UGA

The Merian Ensemble performs at Emory University’s Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, February 27, 2024, 8 p.m. Works by historic and contemporary women, including Beach, Gipps, Assad, Higdon, Lanzilotti, and Schwob, and presenting a world premiere by Soon Hee Newbold.

 

“Woodland Sprites and Other Music Creatures” Fernbank Museum, Sunday October 15, 1 p.m.

Performance of Nicole Chamberlain’s “Atalanta” at Atlanta’s Symphony Hall, October 11, 2023.

Works by Aldridge, Assad, Beach, Bonis, Carwithen, de Montesquiou, Nourbakhsh, Plowman, and more. Pitman Recital Hall, September 19, 8 p.m.

Chamber works by Rota, Hoover, and Uebayashi, performed with Christina Smith, flute. Teton Village Common, August 10, 2023 5 p.m.

Performance at the Chamber Music Finale at the Grand Teton Music Festival, August 9, Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village, Wyoming. Yuko Uebayashi’s “Sonate Flore” performed with Christina Smith, flute

Solo and duo harp program at the international Rio Harp Festival, July 28 at 3 p.m. and July 29 at 1 p.m., Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, R. Primiero de Marco, 66, Centro. Works by Salzedo, Bonis, Assad, Ravel, Still, and more

Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta presents “The Magical Harp.” Works by Mozart, Ravel, and Bax. Noon, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

The Merian Ensemble performs at Kennesaw State University’s Morgan Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m. Program includes works by Plowman, Uebayashi, Ware, and world premieres of works by Lanzilotti and Higdon

Members of The Merian Ensemble perform at Kennesaw State University’s “A Celebration of Women” concert. Bailey Performance Center, Morgan Concert Hall, 8 p.m.

World premiere of Laura Elise Schwendinger’s Harp Concerto “Second Sight” with the Emory University Symphony Orchestra

Emory University’s Schwartz Center, 8 p.m.

The Merian Ensemble performs works of Clarke, Price, Ware, and Uebayashi, 6:45 p.m., Atlanta’s Symphony Hall

Solo recital at Jasper’s Casual Classics Concert Series, 7 p.m., Fellowship Presbyterian Church, Jasper, GA

“On the Road” Concerts with the Grand Teton Music Festival, including a family-friendly harp presentation at the Teton County Library on August 19

https://gtmf.org/events/category/on-the-road/

Chamber music at the Grand Teton Music Festival: Robin Haigh’s “Kalimotxo”

https://gtmf.org/events/chamber-music-week-4/

Meeting House Chamber Music, Cape Cod, MA. Works by Soler, Selleck, Saint-Saens, Damase, Beach, and more.

https://www.meetinghousemusic.org/

The Merian Ensemble performs at First Presbyterian Church, Gainesville, GA http://fpcga.org/welcome/music-ministry/

The Merian Ensemble, Listen: Works by Women 2022, Schwartz Center, Emory University. Program includes the world premiere of Lynne Plowman’s “Small World”, commission funded by PRSFoundation, Wales Arts International, and the American Harp Society.

Solo concert at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, Marietta, GA

The Merian Ensemble joins an Evening at Trinity Home, Decatur, GA

The Merian Ensemble performs at Agnes Scott College https://calendar.agnesscott.edu/event/kirk_concert_merian_ensemble#.YZXEqLpOncc, 7 p.m. at Presser Hall, 141 East College Avenue, Decatur, GA 30030. Program includes a world premiere by Atlanta-based composer, Nicole Chamberlain.

Ravel: Introduction and Allegro at the Fabian Series, Mercer University, Macon, GA

Chamber Music at GTMF – Mel Bonis: Scenes de la foret

Chamber Music at GTMF – Kimberly Osberg: Just Another Climb and Saint-Saens: Fantaisie

Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto with the Grand Teton Music Festival and Angela Jones-Reus, flute. July 23, 24

Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto with Christina Smith, flute. ASO Virtual Stage.

Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta. Program includes Bax: Fantasy Sonata for Harp and Viola, Saint Saens: Fantaisie, Mel Bonis: Quatre Morceaux, and Johanna Selleck: Spindrift. Noon. https://schwartz.emory.edu/events-tickets/calendar.html?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D150499079

World premiere of Clarice Assad’s “The Book of Spells”, commissioned and performed by The Merian Ensemble. Available on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Virtual Stage.https://www.aso.org/ListenAndWatch/ASO-Virtual-Stage

RESCHEDULED FOR May 2021: The Merian Ensemble will perform Listen: Works by Women 2020: “American Music for Today and Tomorrow”, featuring works by Clarice Assad, Kimberly Osberg, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Reena Esmail, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and more. Live-stream information TBA.

TO BE RESCHEDULED: The Merian Ensemble will perform Listen: Works by Women 2020: “American Music for Today and Tomorrow”, featuring works by Mary Kouyoumdjian, Reena Esmail, Margi Griebling-Haigh, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and more. Orpheus Brewing, 1440 Dutch Valley Road, Atlanta, 30324

“Images for Harp” – solo recital at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, Marietta, Georgia. Sunday February 23, 4 p.m. Works by Salzedo, Tournier, Katia Makdissi-Warren, Clara Schumann and more.

Clara Schumann “Three Romances” transcribed for violin and harp at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. Sunday October 13, 3 p.m.

Mary Kouyoumdjian “A Boy and a Makeshift Toy”, Grand Teton Music Festival, Chamber Music at St. John’s, Jackson, WY 6 p.m.

Meeting House Chamber Music, Cape Cod, MA. With Donald Enos, piano, and Clark Matthews, French horn. Music by Soler, Bach, Koetsier, Williams, and more.

Master class at the AHS Summer Institute: “The Harp and Orchestra: concertos and orchestral excerpts” 9:15 a.m.

Solo presentation at the American Harp Society Institute, “The Power of Musical Storytelling” 7:30 p.m.

Co-leader of Camp Faculty at the inaugural Camp Innovation at the American Harp Society Summer Institute, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC.

Solo performances at the Rio International Harp Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Elisabeth will be performing her “Legends for Harp” program at Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, Sandy Springs, GA. 7 p.m.

Elisabeth will be performing her “Legends for Harp” program at Trinity Presbyterian Church,  Atlanta, GA. 7 p.m.

“Works by Women”: A chamber concert featuring works by Clara Schumann, Jennifer Higdon, Augusta Read Thomas, Katherine Hoover, Alyssa Morris, and Mary Kouyoumdjian with colleagues from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. 4 p.m.

Elisabeth will be joining fellow harpists for a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Georgia Chapter of the American Harp Society, Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, September 16, 7 p.m. She will be performing a special selection for harp solo with harp quartet that she was commissioned to arrange for this event.

Elisabeth will be joining Christina Smith for a flute and harp recital, 12 p.m., Windy Hill Public Library.

Elisabeth will be joining Christina Smith for a flute and harp recital, Smyrna Public Library, 3 p.m.

8 p.m.
Walk Festival Hall, Grand Teton Music Festival, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Charles Rochester Young: Song of the Lark, with Christina Smith, flute

6:45 p.m.
Pre-concert Chamber Music at ASO Symphony Hall
Arnold Bax: In Memoriam, sextet for cor anglais, harp & string quartet (1916)

6:45 p.m.
Pre-concert Chamber Music at ASO Symphony Hall
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango, with Christina Smith, flute

Elisabeth will perform Caplet’s “Masque of the Red Death” with KSU colleagues. Kennesaw State University’s Bailey Center, Kennesaw GA 30144, 8 p.m.

Elisabeth will perform a solo recital at Kennesaw State University’s Bailey Performance Center, Campus Loop and Frey Road, Kennesaw, GA 30144. 8 p.m.

Aster Duo (Christina Smith, flute and Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp) perform works for flute and harp at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 1700 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta, 30322. 8 p.m. Program will include works by Emory’s own Dr. Richard Prior, as well as Damase and Piazzolla.

Parsa Duo
with Dale Henderson, cello
Bloedel Reserve
Bainbridge Island, Washington