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Rhian Harpist |
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Pachelbel Cannon
Scarborough Fair
My Heart Will Go On
Bridal March (Wagner)
Rhian is
originally from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales, and is a graduate
harpist of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She received a
scholarship to study for her postgraduate diploma at Trinity College
of Music, for which she received a distinction. Rhian won second
prize in the Junior World Harp Contest in 1994, the Nansi Richards
Scholarship and runner-up in the Blue Ribbon Prize at the National
Eisteddfod in 1998.
Rhian is a
beneficiary of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the
Clothworker's Foundation, the Grace Williams Memorial Trust and
Craxton Musical Trust. Rhian made her lunchtime recital debut in
1999 at St. David's Hall, Cardiff and later that year at St.
Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
Rhian
works as a freelance harpist and has been involved in a number of
exciting projects, most notably she has played with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, English National Opera and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
and was associate harpist to the West End musical My Fair Lady.
She has also given chamber music concerts at the Cheltenham
International Festival, Brighton and Canterbury Festivals.
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Repertoire Includes:
Songs from Musicals
Angel of Music ~ Think of Me ~ Music of the Night ~ The Phantom of
the Opera ~
All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera) ~ Where is Love? ~ As Long
as He Needs
Me (Oliver!) ~ Memory (Cats) ~ Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (Evita) ~
Pie Iesu
Requiem (A. Lloyd Webber) ~ Starlight Express ~ I Don’t Know How to
Love Him
(Jesus Christ Superstar) ~ Somewhere ~ One Hand Heart (West Side
Story) ~ Castle
on a Cloud (Les Misérables) ~ If I Loved You ~ You’ll Never Walk
Alone (Carousel) ~
Getting to Know You ~ We Kiss in a Shadow (The King and I) ~ Oh What
a
Beautiful Mornin’ (Oklahoma!) ~ Some Enchanted Evening ~ Dites-Moi ~
A
Wonderful Guy (South Pacific) ~ Edelweiss ~ My Favourite Things ~
The Sound of
Music (The Sound of Music) ~ Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion
King) ~
Sunrise, Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof)
Popular Songs
The Wind Beneath My Wings ~ The Rose ~ Do You Know the Way to San
Jose?
~ The Way We Were ~ Evergreen ~ Fields of Gold ~ The First Time Ever
I Saw
your Face ~ Can’t Help Falling in Love ~ Words ~ Up Where We Belong
~
Amazing Grace ~ The Look of Love ~ Sailing ~ Feelings ~ From This
Moment On
~ Only Time ~ Because ~ Strangers in the Night ~ When I Fall in Love
Film Music
My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) ~ Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
~ Love Theme
(Love Story) ~ When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio) ~ Love Theme
(The Godfather)
~ Cavatina (The Deer Hunter) ~ Love Theme (Romeo and Juliet) ~
Lara’s Theme (Doctor
Zhivago) ~ May it Be ~ Aniron ~ Evenstar (Lord of the Rings) ~
Tara’s Theme (Gone
With the Wind) ~ Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
Cocktail Music
Misty ~ Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye ~ Everybody Loves Somebody ~
Summer
Time ~ The Way You Look Tonight ~ Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise ~
Dream ~
Days of Wine and Roses ~ Rhythm of the Rain ~ ‘S Wonderful ~ Someone
to
Watch Over Me ~ Autumn Leaves ~ All the Things You Are ~ It’s Been a
Long,
Long Time ~ I Want to be Happy ~ Time After Time ~ Moonglow ~
Chances Are
~ Tea For Two ~ Don’t Get Around Much Anymore ~ What a Wonderful
World ~
True Love ~ Try to Remember ~ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ~ As Time Goes
By
Popular Classics
Bridal March (Wagner) ~ Wedding March (Mendelssohn) ~ Trumpet
Voluntary (Clarke)
~ Trumpet Tune (Purcell) ~ Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring ~ Air on The
G String
Sheep May Safely Graze ~ Prelude No.1 ~ Bist Du Bei Mir ~ Arioso (J.S.
Bach) ~
Canon (Pachelbel) ~ Queen of Sheba ~ Largo ~ Air ~ Andante, Violin
Sonata in A
(Handel) ~ Pavane (Fauré) ~ Claire de Lune (Debussy) ~ Ave Maria
(Schubert) ~
Meditation (Massenet) ~ Gymnopédie (Satie) ~ Minuetto (Boccherini) ~
Moonlight
Sonata (Beethoven) ~ Siciliana (Resphigi) ~ Dance of the Blessed
Spirits (Gluck) ~
Grazioso ~ Adagio, Oboe Concerto 2nd Mov. (Telemann) ~ Largo, Winter
(Vivaldi) ~
Blest Be the Tie that Binds (Naegeli) ~ Andantino (Lemare) ~ I Love
You Truly
C.J.Bond) ~ The Swan (Saint-Saens)
Operatic Encores
Oh My Beloved Father (Puccini) ~ Una Furtiva Lagrima (Donizetti) ~
Love Unspoken
(Lehar) ~ Dido’s Lament (Purcell) ~ Flower Duet (Delibes)
The Beatles
Across the Universe ~ All Together Now ~ And I Love Her ~ Because ~
Eleanor
Rigby ~ The Fool on the Hill ~ For No One ~ Girl ~ Golden Slumbers ~
Good
Night ~ Here, There and Everywhere ~ Hey Jude ~ I should Have Known
Better
~ I Will ~ If I Fell ~ I’ll Follow the Sun ~ I’m Happy Just to Dance
with You ~ I’m
Looking Through You ~ In My Life ~ Let It Be ~ Little Child ~ The
Long and
Winding Road ~ Michelle ~ Norwegian Wood ~ Not a Second Time ~
Nowhere
Man ~ She’s Leaving Home ~ Thank You Girl ~ This Boy ~ We Can Work
it Out
~ Yes It Is ~ Yesterday ~ You Won’t See Me
English Traditional
Greensleeves ~ Scarborough Fair
Scottish Traditional
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose ~ To A Wild Rose ~ Sky Boat Song
Irish Traditional
Danny Boy ~ Brian Boru’s March ~ Planxty Drew ~ Lord Galway’s
Lamentation ~
Planxty-Burke ~ Carolan’s Farewell to Music ~ Lady Athenry ~
Carolan’s Cap ~
George Brabazon ~ Blind Mary ~ Morgan Magan ~ Carolan’s Welcome
Welsh Traditional
Myfanwy ~ Dros y Dŵr I Draeth Llansteffan (Across the Water to
Llanstephan’s Beach) ~
Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn (Watching the White Wheat) ~ Fwyalchen ~ Si
Hei Lwli-Mabi
~ Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock) ~ Llongau Caernarfon
(Caernarfon’s
Ships) ~ Ar Ben Waun Tregaer (On Tredegar Heath) ~ Tros y Garreg
(Over the Rock) ~
Ymadawiad y Brenin (The King’s Departure) ~ Y Ferch o Blwy Penderyn
~ Ar Hyd y
Nôs (All Through the Night) ~ Y Deryn Pur ~ Y Gôg Lwydlas
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