Emma Granger - Harpist
BACK
Profile Information
Emma is currently a principal harpist with the Royal Opera House, She began playing at the age of 11 and reached the semi-finals of two BBC ‘Young Musician of the Year’ competitions, 1984 and 1986. She read music at New College, Oxford then undertook a postgraduate course at the Royal College of Music. She has given numerous recitals throughout the UK and played with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, the Bolshi and Moscow festival Ballets.
Her vast repertoire includes beautiful classical pieces such as Pachabel’s ‘Canon’. Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’ and the traditional ‘Greensleeves’, through to popular songs from the shows of Lloyd Webber, Gershwin and Cole Porter. Emma may be engaged to appear as a solo artiste or as part of a duo, accompanied by the very talented flautist, Claire Bentley. You will hear Claire accompanying Emma on some of the songs on the ‘listen to music’ page.
Sample Repertoire
|
CLASSICAL |
|
Cannon – Pachabel |
|
Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven |
|
Greensleeves – Traditional |
|
The Swan – Saint-Saëns |
|
O my Beloved Father – Puccini |
|
Concerto in B6 – Handel |
|
Clair de Lune – Debussy |
|
Arabeque No. 1 – Debussy |
|
La Source – Hasselmans |
|
Hornpipe – Handel |
|
POPULAR - Andrew Lloyd Webber |
|
Memory |
|
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina |
|
I Don’t Know How to Love Him |
|
All I Ask of You |
|
Pie Jesu |
|
Love Changes Everything |
|
The Music of the Night |
|
POPULAR – Gershwin, Porter & show tunes |
|
Feelings |
|
Lara’s Theme from Doctor Zhivago |
|
Les Misérables |
|
When I Fall in Love |
|
What a Wonderful World |
|
Moon River |
|
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square |
|
Cavatina |
|
Danny Boy |
|
Embraceable You |
|
Night and Day |
|
Someone to Watch Over Me |
|
Send in the Clowns |
|
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |