At One With Music, the lunchtime concert series in Inverness Town House, are pleased to welcome back Hannah Phillips for a clarsach recital on Tuesday 7^th June at 1.00pm.

Raised in Beauly but now based in Glasgow, Hannah Phillips, Scottish and pedal harper, is passionate about folk, solo and chamber music.  She began studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2005 and during her time there won the Governor’s Strings Recital Prize. She graduated with a first class BMus (Hons) degree and a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction. 

She loves performing and her successes include winning the Non- Pedal Harp Competition at the Wales International Harp Festival 2010 and becoming Runner-up in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2010 Competition. 


Hannah plays both clarsach, or Scottish harp, and pedal harp, regularly performing throughout Europe, often combining the two instruments. With the help of Inverness Arts Forum and with funding from the Highland Legacy Programme a new work was commissioned for her from the Scottish composer Eddie McGuire to combine the two instruments on stage. ‘The Poet’s Return’ is a solo work in four movements which compares and contrasts the sounds and characters of the two instruments. It commemorates the visit to The Highlands by Robert Burns in 1787 and was premiered by Hannah in Inverness Town House in September 2009 as an event within the Year of Homecoming celebrations.  Hannah is committed to developing the repertoire of the harp and has given world premieres of both solo and chamber music. She writes and arranges music for harp, some of which has been published in ‘The Scottish Harp Anthology’.

For this Inverness concert, her fourth for At One With Music, Hannah has put together a selection of well known and popular traditional Scottish tunes that she has arranged for solo clarsach.  Doors will open at 12.30pm, Hannah’s performance will start at 1.00pm and last for about 50 minutes.  Admission costs £5 for Adults, £4 for Concessions and £1 for Children.

Source: James Munro