by Amanda Whiting | 4 Aug 2016 | Harp News
It has been a dream of mine to play at festivals for as long as I can remember. The last few weeks have been amazing. With Matthew Halsall and The Gondwana Orchestra we played at Ghent Jazz Festival, London Jazz Cafe with Dwight Trible and then Pori66 in Finland. They...
by Amanda Whiting | 18 Mar 2016 | Harp News
It has been a busy few days of harping in various guises. From a Classical charity concert in Whitchurch on Friday in aid of Velindre hospital to The Camac weekend in Cardiff where I was teaching 4 workshops and giving the Saturday night concert with my trio and...
by Amanda Whiting | 17 Jul 2014 | Harp News
The BBC have been filming at Celtic Manor for a documentary to be released in the Autumn. Unfortunately wherever the camera was, I seemed to find chaos including broken lifts and music stands falling over. Let’s hope it doesn’t make the final edit! The...
by Amanda Whiting | 17 Jul 2014 | Harp News
It has been a real honour to be asked to teach Jazz harp on the Masters Course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Starting in the Autumn, I hope to be able to share some of the great teaching that I received when I studied there recently. Its very...
by Amanda Whiting | 12 Apr 2014 | Harp News
It’s quite exciting as this year seems to be very different. Last week I had the pleasure of playing at Cardiff Museum in the beautiful impressionists gallery with the trio. It is always such fun and the music always leaves me on a high of excitement. We also...