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Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
2011
Click the link below to watch Telynorion Cwm Derwent performing at Llangollen
llangollen.tv/en/clip/telynorion-cwm-derwent
Harpz
- The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble - Ireland 2011
Click here for photos and review of our trip to Ireland - April 2011
Urdd 2011
Congratulations to Junior Harpz (ensemble yr 6 and under), Beth
Caswell (harp solo year 6 and under) Laura Rose Gee (harp
solo year 7,8 and 9) and Rebecca McIlroy (Harp solo year 10
and under 19) all LWS students who are through to the Urdd National Eisteddfod
in Swansea!
Harpz member Laura Rose Gee wins a Music Scholarship to Derby High School for Girls - Well Done!!
Telynorion cwm Derwent come 3rd in the
National Eisteddfod Folk Group
Competition - Congratulations!!
Beth Neal and Laura Rose Gee come 2nd and 3rd in the John Weston
Thomas
Memorial Folk Harp Competition
Harpz
- The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble.
HARPZ meets every Thursday from 7pm - 8pm
New members always welcome please contact Helen for more information.
Harpz: The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble now has its own Blogspot
Helen-Elizabeth is the director of Harpz - The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble, which is a group made up of Helen-Elizabeth's students and friends who have an interest in playing together for concerts and competitions. Junior Harpz is now also available to students ages 16 and under.
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Harpz members have competed in the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Urdd National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Gwyl Cerdd Dant Cymru and the Leamington Spa competitive festival both as an ensemble and as individuals.
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If you would like to book Harpz to play at your charity function - telephone Helen on 01332 540540
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Harpz
regularly performs in concerts and other competitions.
For further information please see our Events
page
Click here for photos and review of our trip to Ireland - April 2011
Derbyshire Harp Ensemble
Tour dates for 2012
30th March - 2nd April 2012
Itinerary and times to be confirmed - 30 places available with
Glovers
Coaches.
Friday 8th July 2011 - Llangollen
International Musical Eisteddfod
Harpz - The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble
Day Trip with Glovers Coaches to the Llangollen International Musical
Eisteddfod on Friday 8th July 2011 - Tickets £15.00 adults
and £10.00
for Children. Pick up from Town End Farm Kirk Langley - time to
be confirmed, parking available for the day.
24 places available - book early to avoid disappointment!!
Saturday 5th December 2009
7.30pm The Kiln, Sharpe's Pottery Museum, Swadlincote.
Harpz Christmas Concert
The kiln is "one of the most acoustically superior and intimate venues in
the country".
www.sharpes.org.uk
Saturday October 24th 2009
Harpz Exchange Visit with the Meath Harp Ensemble
Ireland. Concert to be held at Cabra Castle, Kingscourt, Co.
Cavan. www.cabracastle.com Harpz
will then look forward to welcoming The Meath Harp Ensemble to
the Derbyshire Harp Festival on the 30th and 31st October.
Harpz Garden Party 2009
What a wonderful day was had yesterday on 21st June 2009 by students
and
Helen Naylor, members and Harpz and Junior Harpz. A short open
air
recital was held in the garden featuring Thea Butterworth - shortly
to be
leaving us to attend the Royal College of Music, Laura Rose Gee
a winner
in the 2009 Urdd Eisteddfod, Junior Harpz and Harpz along with
other
students playing solos.
The recital was followed by a BBQ in the gardens of Town End Farm
followed
by a wonderful couple of hours spend making Harp Shaped Soaps with
the
fantastic party planners Fizzpotzz.
Please click the play button to see pictures of the fun and
games
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Harpz Garden Party 2009
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See Gallery +Harpz for more images |
In 2008 Harpz will be attending the Teulu James Eisteddfod at Pontrhydfendigaid. Click image to enlarge
Photograph of Harpz The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble @ Sharpe's
Pottery Museum Saturday 4th October 2008
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 On the 29th October 2005 Harpz held a wonderful evening of
musical entertainment with world famous virtuoso harpist David
Watkins and raised £250.00 pounds in aid of St Michael's
Church Kirk Langley and the Leeke Memorial Hall floor. |
Ben Richards, Olivia Bennet and Kristina Kennedy as grade 4 students and members of the Cotswold Harp Ensemble. |
22 December 2008: The
Derbyshire Harp Ensemble were invited to Radio Derby to entertain
with Christmas Carols and seasonal music on the Shane O'Connors
Breakfast Show
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2011 Congratulations to Junior Harpz (ensemble yr 6 and under), Beth Caswell (harp solo year 6 and under) Laura Rose Gee (harp solo year 7,8 and 9) and Rebecca McIlroy (Harp solo year 10 and under 19) all LWS students who are through to the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Swansea! |
National Eisteddfod 2010
Beth Neal and Laura
Rose Gee come
2nd and 3rd in the John Weston Thomas
Memorial Folk Harp Competition - |
 Former LWS harp student,
Thea Butterworth, now at RCM played for a private reception
with HRH Prince Charles, many congratulations! |
| LWS student and Harpz member
Laura Rose Gee wins a Music Scholarship to Derby High School
for Girls Well Done!! |
| Congratulations to LWS Student Eleanor Potter for getting a Distinction in grade 8 ABRSM Harp and to blind student Zoe Dixon getting Distinction at Grade 4 harp with a very high mark of 135/150. |
| Harpz Member and Little Welsh Shop Harp student receives Derby County Council Young Achievers Award - nominated for her musical success with the harp. Well done Laura! |
| Telynorion Cwm Derwent take 2nd prize in the Gwyl Cerdd Dant 2009! |
| East Midlands Today Kids
Got Talent (First
broadcast 6.30pm on Tuesday 8th September 2009) Watch Laura Rose Gee and Harpz - The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble on BBC East Midlands Today Click to watch on BBC i-player starts 18'15" mins in |
Click here to watch Telynorion Cwm Derwent perform in the 2009 National Eisteddfod Bala and Area More photos in the Harpz section of the Photo Gallery Click image to enlarge |
Telynorion Cwm Derwent come 2nd in the small celtic ensemble competition at Llangollen International Eisteddfod 2009 - congratulations - Click here to watch them perform. All harps used in the performance are available to purchase from The Little Welsh Shop - we would like to thank Pilgrim, Teifi and Triplett harps for their ongoing support. BBC to make TV documentary about Laura Rose Gee and Harpz The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble as part of a series on talent in the Midlands - watch this space!! |
| Thea Butterworth: Congratulations to Thea on gaining a place at the Royal College of Music Junior Dept to study Harp and Double Bass, Thea is currently working towards grade 7 and has studied with Helen Naylor since taking up the harp. She will be studying with world famous harpist Skaila Kanga who was incredibly positive about Thea's technique and style of playing! Good Luck Thea and Well Done!! |
URDD 2009 International Eisteddfod. The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble Telynorion Cwm Derwent have been selected and invited to appear at the 2009 International Musical Eisteddfod at Llangollen! Gwyl Cerdd Dant 2008 Telynorion Cwm Derwent came 2nd in the Instrumental Folk Group Competition at the Gwyl Cerdd Dant Dyffryn Clwyd |
| Dear Helen, I really wanted to say what a great performance you gave with Harpz in the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol in August. I was sorry not to be there in person this time but I watched on the BBC live webcast. Harpz really did sound good and what a fantastic performance. I would certainly have given you first prize in the open instrumental group. I looked at the score again afterwards and realised what a long and complicated score it is. I think you've done so well to guide Harpz through such a substantial piece which must have taken so many hours of hard work. Harpz really is a fabulous showcase for harp groups and harp playing. I must also congratulate you on the cerdd dant performance as well, terrific. I know how much work and preparation these performances really take. Well done. Congratulations to all involved - an inspiration to harpists everywhere. From a very grateful composer Diolch yn fawr Jona Musker Turner |
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here to watch them performing! More photos in the Harpz section of the Photo Gallery |
Leamington Spa Competitive
Festival 2008 Harp Day |
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Harpz
The Derbyshire Harp Ensemble member Laura Rose Gee comes
2nd in the Urdd National Eisteddfod Cardiff Bay 2009 - The
urdd eisteddfod is Europe's largest cultural youth festival
and it was Laura's first attempt in the competition!)
Lovable rogues often become popular cultural figures, in particular those who support or fight for the common people, and against the ruling classes. The mythical figure of Robin Hood, who is said to have roamed Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham as an outlaw, is still as popular today as it was 700 years ago.
Wales has its own version of the Robin Hood myth in Twm Sion Cati; an outlaw-hero from Tregaron, who roamed the west and mid parts of Wales. A wealth of popular myths, celebrated in poems, songs and stories, surround his exploits.
In most of the stories about Twm, he is perhaps best remembered for his kindness to his victims. Wishing to avoid severely hurting or killing them, he avoided maiming his enemy by placing a well shot arrow that pinned his nemesis to his saddle.
Members
of Harpz performed during an ITV Central TV Weather Forecast. There
are more photos in the Photo
Gallery.
Some images of the Harp
Ensemble
rehearsing at the Clive Morley Harps Stand at the National Eisteddfod
in Mold 2007. Harpists included Helen Naylor (director) Kristina
Kennedy, Amelia Rodgers, Ben Richards, Elin LLoyd, Ruth Martin
and Viv Fletcher!
