MEET OUR ARTISTS: OUR DISTINGUISHED ROSTER OF ARTISTS:
Mariko Anraku, Saul Davis Zlatkovski (3x), Virginia Flanagan (3x), Joan Holland, Jude Mollenhauer (2x), Karen Kirk Thielen, Yan Ni, Susan Robinson, Alison Simpson, Harps AFire (3x), the Philadelphia Harpestra, with Marian Concus (flute), Ibis Chamber Music, Phyllis Rubin-Arnold (mezzo-soprano), Adria Sternstein Foster (flute), The Stokowski Sinfonietta (the Broad Street String Quartet, the Loudermilk String Quartet Chi Park, violin; Claudia Pellegrini, violin; Susan Arnold, viola; Steven Duckworth, cello) and student harp performers: Helen Gerhold (3x), Emily Klein,Violetta Norrie, Megan Pennock, Vincent Pierce (2x), Rebecca Simpson (2x), Polina Skryabina, Rebecca Spear, Jordan Thomas, Melissa Woo, (incomplete listing), with: Bruce Zhang (violin), Grace Kim (violin), Samuel Soltoff (cello).
OUR ADVISORY BOARD:
Lydia Artimiw, Joan Holland, Heidi Lehwalder, Beth Levin, Ovidiu Marinsecu, Douglas Rioth, Paula Robison
Our 2010 artists:
SAUL DAVIS ZLATKOVSKI 
Artistic and Executive Director of the Harp Festival of Philadelphia, he has led the festival since its origin in 2006. The festival has since grown to four days of concerts and educational programs, attracting performers from around the world and attention from such publications as the Philadelphia Inquirer and BroadStreetReview.com.
He has presented a virtuoso opening recital each year, as well as master classes. He has performed in recital numerous times in New York City, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. He was presented in recital by the Philadelphia Chapter, and also performed in the last master class by Lucile Lawrence. His extensive solo repertoire is unusual in its range of styles and virtuosity. He has also performed the Mozart and Berezowsky concertos as a professional soloist with orchestra. He has performed as a free-lance musician in many groups in New York and Philadelphia, and with the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra, the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra and many others. His harp duo with Virginia Flanagan, Aeolian Harps, was presented at the Doylestown Festival of the Arts. He is also an accomplished composer, with performances at the National Conference of the American Harp Society and at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he coached Curtis students in his music.
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a teacher, he has served on the faculties of the Roosa School of Music, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, the Hebrew Arts Center, and has taught privately for over 20 years. He has taught master classes at the Harp Festival of Philadelphia and at Macalester College where he held a "mini-residency" of one week of recitals, guest lectures and master class. At the Curtis Institute of Music, he coached the harp students of the Curtis Institute of Music in performances of his compositions. His advanced studies of harp were with Lucile Lawrence and Alice Chalifoux, and chamber music with Gary Graffman. He holds degrees from Macalester College and Manhattan School of Music. As a composer, he has received awards from ASCAP in recognition of his music, and has been published by Harpiana Publications and Da Costa Music House. His music was premiered at the American Harp Society National Conference 2004 at the University of Pennsylvania, and performed at the Curtis Institute of Music. His commissions have included the Harps AFire harp duo. He has composed many solo works, as well as chamber works for trombone and harp (Portrait in Rhapsody), and flute and harp as well as a song cycle on the poems of Naomi Replansky, "I Met My Solitude".
An avid fan of dance, he studied jazz dance with Betsy Haug, and ballet with the renowned Nina Stroganova and Vladimir Dokoudovsky. His article on the teaching of Stroganova was published in Dancemagazine. He also been published in The New Yorker, Philadelphia Music Makers and American Harp Journal.
VIRGINIA FLANAGAN
Virginia Flanagan has served as Associate Artistic Director of the Harp Festival of Philadelphia since 2008, and has participated in every season of the festival as solo performer and as a member of the harp duo, Harps AFire. The duo performed the Concertino in the Old Style by Maciej Malecki in the 2007 and the 2008 festivals to acclaim. Ms. Flanagan is a sensitive artist combining strength with emotional depth. She is an active teacher and free-lance harpist, formerly in New York, Philadelphia, and now located in coastal Maine. She performed with Mr. Zlatkovski in the harp duo Aeolian Harps at the Doylestown Festival of the Arts. Her remarkably distinguished roster of harp instructors includes Lucile Lawrence, Lucy Lewis, Alice Chalifoux and Cynthia Otis. She is currently performing with the Mid-Coast Symphony Orchestra.
ALISON SIMPSON graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music with B.M. in Harp Performance, and from Wheaton College with a B.A. in European History. She spent 13 summers at the Salzedo Summer Harp Colony studying with Alice Chalifoux. Alison is an active free-lance performer throughout the Delaware Valley region, performing with symphony orchestras and choral societies. She was a solo artist with Young Audiences of New Jersey, and a frequent performer on the luxury liner the QE2. She performs in the harp duo, Harps AFire, which has appeared at every season of the Harp Festival of Philadelphia, and has made a recording called Harps AFire. Alison served three terms as President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Harp Society and co-chaired their unprecedently successful National Conference at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She is a faculty member of the Westiminster Conservatory of Music at Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, and maintains a private studio in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
More to come! Look for such artists to appear as Heidi Lehwalder, Joan Ceo, Joseph Ceo, Erica Goodman and others.