Deborah Henson-Conant

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Deborah Henson-Conant (born November 11, 1953 in Stockton (California) ) is an American composer and harpist who established this instrument, also in jazz .

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Henson-Conant has been playing the harp since he was twelve. From 1976 to 1979 she studied composition at the University of California, Berkeley ; at the end she received the Eisner Prize for Excellence . She then belonged to symphony orchestras in Boston and San Francisco . Then she worked with a cellist and performed a. a. in hotels. She founded her first jazz trio in 1982. Within a few years she played the festivals in Montreal , Pori , the American Blue Note Festival, but also the World Harp Festival in Wales and the Rencontres Internationales de Harp in France.

Since 1987 she has released a large number of albums under her own name, on which she u. a. played with Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb . Cooperations with Lee Ritenour , Dave Grusin , Patti Austin , Gary Burton and Barbara Dennerlein should also be mentioned. She increasingly plays the electric harp and tries to cover the musical spectrum between blues and flamenco.

As a composer, Henson-Conant wrote chamber concerts, which u. a. performed with the Boston Pops ; In recent years she has made frequent guest appearances with large symphony orchestras such as the Syracuse Symphony. She has also emerged as an illustrator and short story writer. In 2006 she was nominated for a Grammy Award .

Discography

  • 1985: Songs My Mother Sang
  • 1987: 'Round the Corner - Jazz Standards for Harp, Bass & Drums
  • 1989: On the Rise
  • 1990: Caught in the Act
  • 1991: Talking Hands
  • 1992: Budapest
  • 1994: Naked Music
  • 1995: The Gift - 15 Fantasies on Traditional Christmas Carols from Around the World for Solo Harp
  • 1995: Just for you - Live in Concert
  • 1998: Altered Ego
  • 1999: The Celtic Album
  • 2000: The Frog Princess
  • 2004: Artist's Proof (Phase 2.1)
  • 2006: Invention and Alchemy (CD & DVD)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to M. Kunzler Jazzlexikon, however , she was born on November 24, 1954 in Boston
personal data
SURNAME Henson-Conant, Deborah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American harpist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton (California)