Leah is available for Hire to play her harp for Special Events, Private Weddings, Parties, and much more!
BIO: Leah has been playing the harp for over 40 years. She performs professionally using the large Concert Pedal Harp, the medium-sized Irish or Celtic Harp, and the small (and very portable) Lap Harp.
Concert Harp – The largest harp that she owns is a 47-string Salvi Aurora pedal harp, which features an exquisite custom gold design on the soundboard.
Celtic harp – her 38-string Egan Harp was designed and built by Salvi in Italy. The Egan harp features a lovely bell-like tone.
Lap Harp – a 22-string Eve Harp, made by Stoney End, a harp maker in Red Wing, Minnesota USA.
Leah maintains an active performing schedule, playing with orchestras and smaller ensembles, in addition to playing solo harp for recitals and concerts.
She plays for corporate and private events at the world famous Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
In addition she plays at many local restaurants and churches.
Leah also frequently performs at private special occasions such as wedding ceremonies and receptions, anniversary parties, private dinners, funerals and memorial services, holiday parties, and other special events.
Invite Leah to bring her harp and her beautiful music will grace your event with elegance.
MORE ABOUT LEAH:
Leah Trent is a member of both the American Harp Society and the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen.
Leah has taught harp for many years, both in private and group sessions. She also teaches Bowed Psaltery. Leah teaches lessons at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg West Virginia.
Leah is an in-person and online instructor. Lessons are available for both harp and bowed psaltery.
In the past, she has had the honor of teaching harp classes at the world-famous Irish Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia. She also taught harp for eight years at the Classen School for Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City, where she built the harp program into a performing harp ensemble with 14 members.
Leah has also taught harp at the college level, having had experience as the Harp Instructor at both the University of Central Oklahoma and Southern Nazarene University.
In addition, Leah was the Harp Director and Lead Harper for the 15 member St. Patrick’s Irish Harp Orchestra.
HARP LESSONS:
Leah teaches private lessons for children and adults at St. Charles Borromeo Church in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She teaches all levels of lever harp, and beginning and intermediate pedal harp. In addition she teaches the bowed psaltery to beginners and intermediate players.
No previous musical training is required. She has lever harps and bowed psalteries for rent to her students. Leah specializes in Celtic, folk, and sacred music. She also teaches arranging and improvisation, and classical, orchestral, pop, folk, Renaissance and early music. She offers recitals and harp ensembles for her students. She has both Bachelors and Masters degrees in music, and has been teaching since 1980.
“If you have always wanted to play the harp or the bowed psaltery, now is the time! I welcome students of all ages, and abilities. It is not necessary for you to know how to read music to play the harp or the psaltery.”