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Tips for Successfully Navigating Online Harp Lessons

10 months ago

If you’ve never used Skype (or Facetime, or Zoom, or Google Hangout, or Facebook Video Chat) for your harp lesson before, here are some tips on how to set up …

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Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 3): Six Ways to Prepare For An Orchestra Gig as a harpist

1 year ago

In Part 1 and Part 2 of the series Practicing for Any Contingency, I shared tips on preparing for background harp gigs and for solo harp concerts. In this post …

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Stephanie Claussen playing harp at MN Scottish Fair

Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 2): Six Ways to Prepare for a Solo Harp Concert

1 year ago

In my first post of the series, Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 1) : Six Unorthodox Ways To Prepare for a Background Harp Gig, I talked about all the things …

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Practicing for Any Contingency (Part 1): Six Unorthodox Ways To Prepare for a Background Harp Gig

1 year ago

1. Practice with a light shining in your face.

Once I played harp for a lovely wedding reception on a cruise boat. Dramatic clouds spotted the western sky as a glowing …

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Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Russian Easter Overture:” Harp part, page 4

2 years ago

This Sunday afternoon I will be performing harp on the “Russian Easter Overture” for the third time. I love it when I get to repeat an orchestral work because I …

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Enjoying the drudgery

2 years ago

Sometimes a piece reaches that in-between stage where it can truthfully claim almost all the right notes, correct timing, and a decent set of dynamics. And there the piece languishes, …

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Motivated by the Beat: Spin Class and Harp Practice

2 years ago

I’ve been trying out spin classes this past year.

Spinning. You know – as in indoor cycling?

One of my harp students in responsible. She invited me, attended along with me, suggested …

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Attend Concerts, Earn Free Lessons

3 years ago

Introducing the “Attend Concerts, Earn Free Lessons” program!
Updated September 2019

Attending harp concerts and events is an important part of developing as a harpist. For every three harp events/concerts my …

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Stephanie Claussen Harp Studio Policy

4 years ago

Stephanie Claussen Studio Policy

1. Payment:

Payment by check is due at the first lesson of each month, or if paying online, by the 7th of the month. A fee of …

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If At First (You Feel Like) You Don’t Succeed…

4 years ago

The room swirled with girls in cute dresses and guys in slacks and suspenders: tennis-shoed young people dancing to the sounds of jazz. Last night I went swing dancing with …

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Harpist Keeping Busy During Covid-19

The first few weeks were special. I felt so free to work on projects that I never had time for before. I composed more music in March and April of …

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Light So Brilliant: Christmas Carols and Tunes for Solo Harp

“Evoking an ancient rather than modern setting, Claussen’s renditions contain variations that intermediate through advanced harpists will find both intricate and satisfying.”

Harpists looking for moody, challenging, ancient-sounding arrangements of Christmas …

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