Harp Faculty
Harp Faculty
Jacquelyn Bartlett
A champion of chamber music, Jacquelyn Bartlett has worked with some of this generation’s most well known composers such as Aaron
Copeland, George Crumb, Alberto Ginastera, Dan Locklair, George Rochberg and John
Rutter and she continues to bring new compositions to the concert stage as a soloist
and chamber musician. Ms. Bartlett is a founding member of Fire Pink Trio and a long
time member of Mallarme Chamber Players. For ten years, she was the Founder and Artistic
Director of SummerMusic in Blowing Rock, N.C. and Music at St John’s in Valle Crucis,
N.C. She has written and published articles in professional journals, has edited music
for publication and is a recorded artist on the Albany, Capstone and Naxos labels.
Her recent world premiere recording of Dan Locklair’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra was released by Naxos and has received high,
critical praise.
Ms. Bartlett is much sought-after as a teacher, chamber music coach and presenter for master classes and seminars. Her students have garnered top prizes at international and national competitions, and have been featured in Europe at the World Harp Congress and on Christopher O'Reilly's National Public Radio show, "From the Top".
Elizabeth Hainen
Ms. Hainen has collaborated with such eminent conductors and musicians as Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and the Juilliard String Quartet. In addition to the Philadelphia Orchestra, she has appeared as a featured soloist with the City of London Sinfonia, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Orchestra Camerata Ducale (Italy), Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. She also appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A champion of new music, Ms. Hainen gave the United States, Chinese, European and Australian Premieres of the Nu Shu: Secret Songs of Women, written for her by Tan Dun.
Ms. Hainen is the founding director of the Lyra Society, an organization to promote new works for the harp and educate young harpists. Through the Lyra Society she has provided educational outreach to hundreds of schoolchildren in urban Philadelphia. Ms. Hainen joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2005 and also teaches at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.
Grace Ludtke
Praised for her “brilliant” and “stunning” playing (Cultural Voice of North Carolina),
American harpist Grace Ludtke loves giving audiences a new impression of the harp and sharing its stories so its secrets can be discovered. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician throughout North America and Europe, including concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City, St. George’s Church in London,
and Liben Castle in Prague and has performed with the North Carolina Opera Orchestra and regional orchestras across the state.
Grace teaches in the music department at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC and serves on the artistic teams of the American Harp Academy and North Carolina Harp Ensemble at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, which believes in nurturing the artist within the harpist. These programs provide transformational learning and performance opportunities to harpists of all ages and
skill levels nationwide.
Grace earned a Master of Music degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she studied harp performance with Jacquelyn Bartlett. She also
received a Master of Social Work degree with an emphasis in empowerment practice from Winthrop University and Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Converse College. Her performance and teaching career are influenced by her combined passions for music and social practice. She believes cultivating creativity and artist practice is a tool for empowerment, for both individuals and communities.