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Janet Harbison
12+ albums
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Janet Harbison (born in Dublin in 1955) is an Irish harper, composer, teacher and orchestra director. Harbison came to early prominence with the piano and the Irish harp; by 1981, she had won every national harp competition and a number of international prizes including the Isle of Man Millennium Competition and Festival International de l'Harpe Celtique (Awen Trophy). She had studied music at Trinity College Dublin, the Dublin College of Music and Cork University, with performance on a range of instruments, composition and conducting. In 1984, Harbison moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland to pursue doctoral research and was awarded a two-year Research Fellowship at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster, a Flax Trust award for her work with Irish music and Education toward Mutual Understanding (Peace and Reconciliation) in Northern Ireland, and a number of other awards for her work with the Belfast Harp Orchestra. From 1986 to 1994, Harbison held the position of Curator of Music at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. From 1994, Harbison took up the position of CEO with the Harp Foundation. In 2002, Harbison established the Irish Harp Centre in Castleconnell, County Limerick. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
