Women Make Music: Lauren Scott

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Commission - Harps across the North

Harps across the North is a new multi-level harp ensemble piece in three movements composed by Lauren Scott for amateur harp groups. The piece has parts that may be taught by ear to those who can’t read music. More and more people are starting to learn the lever harp as ‘life-long’ learning and with affordable small lever harps and even cardboard kit harps the amateur harp community is ever growing. Fusing funky contemporary harp techniques with groove, the pieces are aimed at intermediate level players to learn to play in a workshop setting. The initial performances are with three (separate) amateur harp groups across the north of England during 2020, with further performances later in the year from harp groups in Wales and Australia.

An in demand and experienced freelance harpist, Lauren Scott has recently embarked on a creative compositional journey having only started writing music in 2018. Since then she has published two volumes of music for lever harp, her music has received rave reviews from harpists and harp societies worldwide and she has had four of her pieces set on the Trinity grade syllabus. In 2020 her debut solo CD, Beyond the Horizon which features eight of her compositions alongside works by Peter Maxwell Davies and John Cage will be released on the Avie Records label. She will also be performing a concert of her solo harp music at the World Harp Congress in Cardiff before premiering her new harp duo piece in Perth, Australia in August.