Irish Music for the Celtic Harp
In this course, participants learn typical Irish dances and tunes and their historical background, as well as special tonalities and ornaments of Irish music.


Lower Intermediate
2.6. to 4.6. 15.00 - 17.30 h

Advanced
3.6. and 4.6. 10.00 - 12.30 h
5.6. 10.00 - 11.00 h



Catherine Rhatigan (Ireland)
Catherine is from Sligo, an Irish region in which musical tradition has been intensively cultivated to the present day. She studied Celtic Harp with Janet Harbison, and she is a member of the noted Belfast HarpOrchestra, with which she has frequently toured and recorded a CD. In addition, she is a member of various ensembles that cultivate traditional Irish music. As an expert in traditional Irish harp music, she gives lectures both in Ireland and abroad. She also writes for the musical theater, and her play «About Harps, Harpers and Big Houses» in which the old harp traditions of Ireland come to life, and which has been performed in Ireland and the United States.