Harp Intensive for Ages 9-15

Join harp teachers from Junior Guildhall for an inspiring four days of immersive learning and performing. 

Aided by expert tuition from Harriet Adie and Charlotte Seale, this new four-day course will give you the opportunity to hone your technique and access tools for independent practice, improve your ensemble and sight reading skills, explore core orchestral repertoire and tap into your inner musicality as a musician and performer. 

A practical, structured week of hands-on classes including: 

During the course we will explore ideas such as: 

The course has been developed by Harriet Adie and Charlotte Seale. 

Harriet Adie is the founder of Harp Exam Boot Camp and author of the hugely popular The A-G of Sight Reading series. She is the specialist harp coach for the LRAM course at the Royal Academy of Music and teaches at the Junior Department at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at Woldingham School. Harriet has worked with students at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Purcell School, and the National Youth Orchestra, and is regularly invited to adjudicate harp competitions across the UK. 
 
She is an accomplished chamber musician and founding member of the internationally recognized ensemble 4 Girls 4 Harps. Their recordings have been broadcast on Classic FM, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4. Harriet has worked with many orchestras and ensembles including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Swan, London Festival Sinfonia, Covent Garden Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia and London Oriana Choir. In December 2022 Harriet released her debut solo album, Christmastide, featuring her own arrangements of traditional Christmas carols for harp. The recording was well received by critics, leading to Scala Radio naming her as ‘One to Watch’.  

Charlotte Seale is Professor of Harp at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Senior and Junior Departments; Royal Academy of Music Senior Department; and the Purcell School of Music 

Charlotte Seale enjoys an international reputation as a renowned teacher and leading exponent of French technique. Her teaching posts have included Trinity College of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, Chethams School of Music, and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. 

She subsequently freelanced in London, and has worked regularly with all the major London orchestras, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Ballet, and Ballet Rambert. S  

Charlotte is the only British harpist to have been awarded the Premier Prix with Distinction from the Conservatoire Royale de Bruxelles, where she studied under Mireille Flour, a pupil of Marcel Tournier in Paris. Prior to this she studied with Tina Bonifacio, and afterwards with Edward Witsenburg in The Hague. 

She is currently Professor of Harp at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Senior and Junior departments), the Royal Academy of Music, and the Purcell School of Music. Charlotte is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.