JULIA HAINES
Independent composer/multi-instrumentalist, who loves to work with with dance, film, theater, radio, video, poetry and storytellers

With a unique approach to the lever harp, Julia Haines is called a “harper among harpists” and a ‘hip harper” by the Irish press. Awarded First Prize for harp and voice at the O’Carolan Festival, Keadue, Ireland, her radiant music fuses world, folk, rock, classical & improvisational influences. She also play piano and accordion with pleasure.

Solo Recordings: Odyssey: An Exploration of Afro-Celtic-Harp-Fusion; Thunder: Perfect Mind; HER SONGS, and with her group WINDHARP: WIND/WATER/LIGHT. She has recorded with: Pauline Oliveros, The Roots, Tommy Hayes, Susan Werner, Laura Simms, Robert Esformes, Ubaka Hill, David Oliver.

COMMISSIONS
Miriam: I Shall Sing a New Song: solo Harp and Voice based on Rabbi Ruth Sohn’s poem
Sophia: Dedicated to the Biblical Goddess of Wisdom, for the Anna Crisis Women’s Choir
The Balance of Life: Commissioned work for Harp and Frame drums

PRESENTATIONS (selected)
Chennai Storytelling Festival: Thunder: The Voice of the Mother, with Laura Simms, Anita Ratnam
Musician in Residence: Sailing Home, Metamorphos Institute, Paros, Greece,
Association for the Healing Power of the Imagination Conference, Stone Ridge, NY;
Harp Around the World: Olive Free Library;
The Irish Harp- Music & Magic: Olive Free Library
PANAME Conference: Lift Every Voice: Creating Inclusive Spaces That Renew Courage
Integrative Medicine and Wellness Conference: U. Pennsylvania: Music Therapy And Cancer
Center For Spectrum Studies, Kingston, NY, Music therapy with Autistic Children
Music And Stress Management, Mercer Regional Heart and Lung Center
Healing Heartbeat, Ars Medica Association, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Listening And Attention, Beyond Music, Genre And Form: American Association for Music Therapy

juliahaines.com

https://juliahhaines.bandcamp.com