Brandee Younger

Spring is here!  It seems that everyone has been working like crazy around here and harps are back in style (if they really ever left…).  Orchestral & chamber concerts, recording sessions, pop performances & tours, club dates and lots of harp students. It has been quite difficult to find a harpist here in NY to [...]

I just completed an incredible week of music making with Jonathan Batiste at Pearl Studios in midtown.  He is creating the music for a musical, and watching this thing grow from “can you play this line?” last week, to a full blown show of music today was quite an experience.  The amount of talent, passion [...]

This month, I’m really looking forward to hearing the Billy Child’s Ensemble at the Iridium Jazz Club in Times Square, here in NYC.  I’m so excited to hear his genius compositions with such an incredible band working with him, including, harpist, Carol Robbins. About a year ago, while on the phone with Carol, talking about [...]

Posted on the HarpColumn.com, December 2007 About a month ago, I spent the start of my weekend playing with another harpist, for the first graders at a charter School in Brooklyn, New York.  As is often the case, many of them had never before seen a harp, (let alone, 2 at the same time) and [...]