Events

Billy ‘Harp Doctor’ Servicing

15 April 2025

Billy Hornby (The Harp Doctor) shall be available during the Festival to service harps. You should contact Billy directly to arrange a day & time. (07771 797877 / harpdoctor@btinternet.com). Booking is essential. 

Exhibition: Salvi Harp UK

15 April 2025, Afternoon

Salvi Music London will be exhibiting Salvi lever and pedal harps, strings, sheet music and accessories. If anyone would like to order in advance, please email allison@salvimusic.com. We look forward to seeing you all!

Steps in Music on the Harp

15 April 2024, 1:00 – 1:40pm, Stiwdio 2 Galeri Caernarfon

For children 2-5 years old with an adult
£5 per child (20% discount for siblings).

Hands on Harps

15 April 2025, 2:00 – 2:45pm, Stiwdio 2 Galeri Caernarfon

For children of school age 6+ who are interested in the harp but have not yet received harp lessons. With Angharad Wyn Jones & Catrin Morris Jones.

Free, but booking is essential.

Nansi Richards Scholarship Competition

15 April 2025, 3:30pm, Stiwdio 2

A £1,500 scholarship is offered, by the Nansi Richards Trust, to a harpists under the age of 25 living in or born in Wales. Each candidate is required to present a programme of contrasting works up to 20 minutes in length, to includes a Welsh melody or an original work by a composer born in Wales.

No admission charge (collection for the Nansi Richards Trust at the end)

For more information contact ysgoloriaethnansirichards@yahoo.com

Billy ‘Harp Doctor’ Servicing

16 April 2025

Billy Hornby (The Harp Doctor) shall be available during the Festival to service harps. You should contact Billy directly to arrange a day & time. (07771 797877 / harpdoctor@btinternet.com). Booking is essential. 

Exhibition: Salvi Harp UK

16 April 2025, From 9:30am

Salvi Music London will be exhibiting Salvi lever and pedal harps, strings, sheet music and accessories. If anyone would like to order in advance, please email allison@salvimusic.com. We look forward to seeing you all!

Festival Course

16 April 2025

Harpists of all ages and levels are encouraged to register for the one-day harp course – a fantastic opportunity to receive one to one and group tuition by experienced teachers and to take part in a variety of workshops and performances.

Harps Galore on the balconies of Galeri 

16 April 2025, 5:00pm, Foyer Galeri, Free

A performance by course participants on the balconies of Galeri.

Also to include a performance by Hebe Kan:
Programme:
J.S. Bach – Lute Suite in C minor, BWV 997: Prelude, Sarabande, Gigue
Pierre Sancan – Thème et Variations
Jacques de La Presle – Le Jardin Mouillé
Carlos Salzedo – Ballade, Op. 28

Hebe Kan Yuet, a 19-year-old harpist from Hong Kong, won the 2024 United Kingdom Harp Competition. At 16, she earned her FTCL Diploma and was awarded distinction for her LTCL at 11. Hebe has won several international prizes, including 1st Prize at the 2018 Young Artist’s Harp Competition in Ohio and 3rd Prizes at the Osaka International Music Competition. She has performed globally, including at the Korea Seoul Arts Centre and the USA International Harp Competition. Currently a second-year music student at Trinity College, Cambridge, Hebe is the principal harpist for the Cambridge University Orchestra.