Lauren is a professional harpist and composer based near Manchester with a playing experience ranging from weddings and private events through to high profile classical concerts such as the BBC Proms and media broadcasts. Lauren can perform on either a pedal harp or a small lever harp with a discrete battery powered amplifier.
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Description
Lauren is a professional harpist and composer based near Manchester with a playing experience ranging from weddings and private events through to high profile classical concerts such as the BBC Proms and media broadcasts. Lauren can perform on either a pedal harp or a small lever harp with a discrete battery powered amplifier.
Weddings & Private Events
Lauren has been performing at hundreds of weddings and private events over 25 years. In that time, she has a played in all sorts of situations including wedding ceremonies, drinks receptions and dinners, in venues ranging from the stately homes and hotels across the UK to the Tower of London to H.M.S. Invincible. With a wide ranging repertoire, and exemplary professionalism always providing the best quality music for every occasion your event is in safe hands!
Harp Options
Lauren plays both a full-sized concert pedal harp and also a smaller lever harp. Either can booked for your event for exactly the same price. Lauren is happy to play on her harps outdoors provided there is overhead cover from any possible rain and the ground is solid and level. So, she could easily perform for an outdoor wedding ceremony or drinks reception.
Background
Lauren fell in love with the harp aged four after seeing a historic lever harp in a museum in Australia. After two years of pestering her parents she began harp lessons aged six when her family moved back to England. Lauren studied harp at Trinity College of Music and has a busy portfolio musical career. As an established and in demand freelance player, she plays guest principal harp with many of the UK’s leading orchestras and chamber groups as well as pursuing her own projects. Her harp playing has led her to performing in venues across the UK from the Royal Albert Hall to West End shows to commercial recordings to live broadcasts on radio and TV.
Repertoire
Wedding Music
Air from Water Music – Handel
Air on a G String – Bach
Ave Maria – Gounod
Canon in D – Pachabel
Chaconne – Clarke
Here comes the bride – Wagner
Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring – Bach
O Perfect Love – Barnby
Ode to Joy – Beethoven
Queen of Sheba – Handel
Sheep my safely graze – Bach
Trumpet Voluntary – Clarke
Wedding March – Mendelssohn
Classical
1st Arabesque – Debussy
Clair de Lune – Debussy
Farewell to Stromness – Peter Maxwell Davies
Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission
Gymnopedie No 1 – Satie
Harp concerto – Handel
I Giorni – Einaudi
Intermezzo Theme – Mascagni
Le Onde – Einaudi
Meditation from Thais – Massanet
Minuetto – Boccherini
Morning – Grieg
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini – Rachmaninoff
Salut D’Amour – Elgar
selection from The Four Seasons – Vivaldi
The Heart Asks Pleasure theme from The Piano – Nyman
Time to say Goodbye – Sartori
Opera & Ballet
Bacarolle – Offenbach
Duet from Pearl Fishers – Bizet
Entraact from Carmen – Bizet
Flower Duet – Delibes
Habanera from Carmen – Bizet
Mazurka from Coppelia – Delibes
Nessun Dorma – Puccini
Oh my beloved Daddy – Puccini
Valse from Coppelia – Delibes
Pop & Light Repertoire
A Day in the Life of a Fool – Luiz Bonfá
A Million Love Songs – Take That
A Thousand Years – from Twilight
A Whole New World from Aladdin
All I Ask of you from Phantom of the Opera
All I have to do is dream The Everly Brothers
Angle of Music – Phantom of the Opera
Annie’s Song – John Denver
As If We Never Said Goodbye from Sunset Boulevard
At Last – Etta James
Beautiful – Christina Aguilera
Beauty & the Beast (Tale as Old as Time) from Beauty & the Beast
Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell
Braveheart theme from Braveheart
Bring Him Home – Les Miserables
Bring Me To Life – Evanescence
Can you Feel the love tonight from The Lion King
Cavatina from The Deer Hunter
Clocks – Coldplay
Close To You – Carpenters
Colours of the Wind – Pochahontas
Come Away with Me – Norah Jones
Days of Wine and Roses – Henry Mancini
Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones
Dream – Frank Sinatra
Embraceable you – Gershwin
Endless Love – Lionel Richie
Evergreen – Barbara Streisand
Everything – Michael Buble
Fairytale – Enya
Feelings – M Albert
Fields of Gold – Sting
Fireflies – Owl City
Flightless Bird – Twilight
Fools Rush In – Frank Sinatra
Forever My Love – The O’Neill Brothers
Hallelujah from Shrek
Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison
Hello – Adele
Here Comes the Sun – George Harrison
Home – Michael Bublé
I Dreamed A Dream – Les Miserables
I Wish I Knew how to be Free – Nina Simone
I’ve Got You Under My Skin – Frank Sinatra
Ice Castles theme – Barbara Streisand
If I Loved You from Carousel
If I Never Knew You – Pocahontas
Kissing You Des’ree from Romeo and Juliet
La Vie en Rose – Edith Piaf
Let It Go – Frozen
Let There Be Love – Nat King Cole
Life on Mars – David Bowie
Love Story – Taylor Swift
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
May It Be – Enya
Misty – Erroll Garner
Moon River – Mancini
Moonlight in Vermont – Tony Bennett
Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera
My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder
My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music
Night and Day – Cole Porter
On My Own – Les Miserables
Out of Africa – Theme
Over the Rainbow from Wizard of Oz
River Flows In You – Yiruma
Safe and Sound – Taylor Swift from The Hunger Games
Secret Love – Doris Day
Someone Like You – Kings of Leon
Something – George Harrison
Somewhere from West Side Story
Songbird – Eva Cassidy
Star Dust – Hoagy Carmichael
Starlight Express – Lloyd-Webber
Stars – Les Miserables
Summertime – George Gershwin
Sun and Moon from Miss Saigon
That’s Amore – Dean Martin
The Godfather theme from The Godfather
The Man I Love – Billie Holliday (Gershwin)
The Rose – Westlife
The Way You Look Tonight – Jerome Kern
The Wind Beneath my Wings – Bette Midler
Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
Under The Boardwalk – The Drifters
Unexpected Story from Song & Dance
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
When I Fall in Love – Nat King Cole
When You Wish Upon a Star – Disney
Windmills of Your Mind – from Thomas Crown Affair
You Raise Me Up – Westlife
Your Song – Elton John
Folk (not full list)
Brian Boru’s March – Irish
Danny Boy – Irish
David of the White Rock – Welsh
Eleanor Plunkett – Irish
From Where I Am – Enya
Greensleeves – English
My love is like a red red rose – English
Over the Sea to Skye – Scottish
Scarborough Fair – English
The Ash Grove – Welsh
The Banks of the Suir – Irish
The Water is Wide – English
Watching the Wheat – Welsh
Watermark – Enya
Bollywood Music
1942 Love Story
Baahon Ke Darmiyaan
Chalo Tumko Lekar Chale
Chand Mera Dil
Chhann Chhann
Chori Chori Chupke Chupke
Dil Ne Yeh
Do Pal Veer Zaasa
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha
Ek Shararat Hone Ko Hai
Hum Chup Hain
Hum Kisise
Hum Ko Humisie Chura Lo
Kaho Naa…Pyaar Hai
Kalkonaaho
Kehna Hi Kya
Khabie Khushi Khabie Gham
Kuch Kuch
Kuch Na Kaho
Mausam Ke Sargam
Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna
Mere Humsafar
Mere Khwabon Ka Har Ek Naqsh Mita De Koi
Mere Mehboob Mere Sanam
Mere Naseeb
Merimehbooba
Pehlanasha
Raat Ki Hatheli Par
Tera Saath Hai Kitna Pyara
Tere Bina Jiya Jaaye Na
Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai
Tu Hi Re
Tumko Hi Chahenge Hum
Veer Zoara Tere Liye
Yeh Galiyan Yeh Chaubara
Yeh Kahan Aa Gaya Hum
Reviews
Specs
- Name
- Manchester Harpist
- Main region
- Cheshire
- Other regions
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- Main category
- Harpists
- Other categories
- Classical Musicians Corporate Entertainment Harpists Music for Funerals Musicians World Music
- Set Up Time
- 1 hours
- Arrival Time
- Finish time
- Minimum space
- 2m x 2m
- Maximum space
- 2m x 2m
- PA System included
- Yes
- PA Suitable for
- 100 people
- Stage Lighting
- No
- Dance Floor Lighting
- No
- Free use of PA via iPod etc
- No
- DJ included
- No
- Technical
- 1 x 13 amp electricity if booking lever harp
- Hospitality
- Soft drinks as required and parking for one vehicle
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