Nancy Hurrell - Harpist

Nancy Hurrell is a performer, teacher, and arranger of music for the harp. Living in Boston, Nancy plays solo classical harp for events, and she is the harpist for tea at the Taj Boston Hotel in Boston. Nancy performs concerts on historical harps and is the harpist in the early music group, Renaissonics. Nancy also plays in the O'Carolan Consort , and performs on celtic harp for concerts and festivals.

Nancy presents lectures on historical harps and is the chair of the Historical Harp Society of America Survey Project of pre-1945 harps. She is a harp consultant for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she works with the collection and gives gallery talks.

Nancy enjoys teaching workshops for groups around the country. Her books of harp arrangements are popular in the US and abroad. She is a member of the collaborative faculty at the The Boston Conservatory, specializing in early music and Scottish/Irish music.

The Ring of Harps. Traditional music from Ireland and Scotland arranged for Solos and Ensembles, published by Afghan Press. Available from Melody's Music.

May 19, 2007. Workshops:
Maine Harp Circle
Auburn, ME. Info: Melanie Lee mlee@megalink.net.
June 12, 2007. 2:00pm
RENAISSONICS Concert
Boston Early Music Festival. Williams Hall, New England Conservatory.
July 14, 2007. Seminar:
"How to Survey a Harp".
Historical Harp Society Conference at Amherst Early Music Festival. Connecticut College, New London.
July 15, 2007. 3:00pm
Faculty Concert.
HHS Conference at Amherst Early Music Festival.
July 19-22.
Performer/Presenter at Somerset Harp Festival in New Jersey.
August 1, 2007. 6:00pm.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lecture Demonstration: "The Irish Harp in the 19th Century", Nancy Hurrell.
The revival of the Irish harp by Dublin harp maker, John Egan will be discussed, and Hurrell will play an Egan harp, c.1820 in the collection.
August 8, 2007. 1:00-2:00pm. Celtic Harp Concert
LIVE LAWRENCE! Farmer's Market Concert Series.
August 11, 2007.
Irish Connections Festival. Nancy Hurrell, harp and Éilís Crean, fiddle.
September 21-22, 2007. New Hampshire Highland Games.
Friday: Harp Concert at Patron's Reception.
Saturday: Harp Workshop and Harp Circle.
October 1, 2007. 11:00am
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lecture Demonstration.

"The Curious Instruments of Edward Light", Olav Chris Henriksen, harp-lute-guitar and Nancy Hurrell, dital harp (early 19th century).
Feliz Navidad: Christmas from Spain & New Spain Concerts. Musicians of the Old Post Road.
Instrumental works from Baroque Spain and Mexico with vocal soloists.
Nancy Hurrell, Spanish harp.

December 8, 2007. 8:00pm
Emmanuel Church, Boston.

December 9, 2007. 5:00pm
Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester.
December 12, 2007. 7:30pm. RENAISSONICS Concert
Carols for Dancing with dancers.
Bentley College, Waltham.
December 16, 2007. 2:00pm. RENAISSONICS Concert
Carols for Dancing. St. John's Episcopal Church,
Beverly Farms, MA.
July 10-13, 2008. Somerset Harp Festival
Workshops/Concert. Alexandria, VA.