Parker Ramsay Harp Masterclass 21/10/24
Date of Event: Monday, 21st October 2024
We are thrilled to be hosting American Harpist, Parker Ramsay, who will present a Masterclass on Monday October 21st in the East Quad Recital Hall.
When: Monday, 21st October
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Where: Recital Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman Campus, D07 XFF2
Open to all who wish to come along, listen, and learn! No booking required.
The class will involve Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from TU Dublin and the Royal Irish Academy of Music, with discussion focused on Early Music and featuring the music of Handel, JS Bach, and more!
Parker Ramsay
Parker Ramsay has forged a career defying easy categorization. Equally at home on modern and period harps, he pursues his passions in tackling new and underperformed works and bringing his instrument to new audiences. His 2020 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations was praised as “remarkably special” (Gramophone), “nuanced and insightful” (BBC Music Magazine), “relentlessly beautiful” (WQXR), and “marked by a keen musical intelligence” (Wall Street Journal).
He has presented talks, performances and lectures on period instruments at the Smithsonian Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham Baroque and the Royal Academy of Music, London. As a writer, he has been published in VAN Magazine, Early Music America Magazine, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Raised in Tennessee, Parker began harp studies with his mother, Carol McClure. He served as organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge before pursuing graduate studies at Oberlin and Juilliard. In 2014, he was awarded First Prize at the Sweelinck International Organ Competition.
Photo by: Tatiana Daubek