West Coast Harp Society/BC Chapter AHS

08/26/2026

Harpohcanada.ca Thank you to Sharlene Wallace for putting together this website for the One Harp World conference in Toronto!

08/19/2026

Island Mountain Arts Sunita Staneslow ▪️TRISTAN_LG▪️ District of Wells 🪉💚🌲

Ready for the ceilidh!!

08/06/2026

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh and Nathania Ko at OHW

08/06/2026

Wonderful to meet up with former students at One Harp World! Me with Samantha Ballard!

08/05/2026

Some photos from One Harp World in Toronto!

07/21/2026

Looking forward to One Harp World in Toronto! We'll have lots of representation from our BC harp community. 🎼🪉❤️ WCHS members are welcome to post their photos here afterwards!

05/15/2026

Congratulations to all the Chapter Ambassadors who will be joining us at One Harp World this summer! Take a look at these stellar students:

⭐ Lucelia Wolff, Bay Area Chapter of the American Harp Society
⭐ Vaishavi Pandey and Danatra Widjaja, American Harp Society in Dallas
⭐ Evelyn Bender, Greater Chicago Chapter of the American Harp Society
⭐ Caroline Bombach, Greater Houston Chapter
⭐ Sihan Wu, Indianapolis Chapter
⭐ Jennifer Le, Jubal Chapter
⭐ Charlene Cao, Long Island Chapter
⭐ Max Chernok and Serena Hunnicutt, Mile High Chapter of the American Harp Society
⭐ Vivian Zhang, Ontario Harp Society - Chapter of the American Harp Society
⭐ Stella Lien and Sarah Xu, San Diego Harp Society
⭐ Grace Han, West Coast Harp Society/BC Chapter AHS

04/10/2026

Les Fleurs du Mal
Noël Wan, harp
“Did you spring out of heaven or hell, O Beauty?” (Baudelaire)
One of classical harp’s most distinctive emerging soloists, Noël Wan brings together her unique artistic voice and intellectual imagination in an all-new solo program, Les Fleurs du Mal. Pairing pieces by beloved late Romantic composers with exquisite twenty-first century works, she and her harp conjure a tangled, efflorescent world of decadence, perversion, and beauty.

Lilacs, op. 21, no. 5 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
trans. Wan

Stalk (2008) Gabriel Jenks (b. 1981)

Une châtelaine en sa tour…, op. 110 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Arches and Strings (20242026) Clifton Callender (b. 1969)
I. Cadenza
II. Muted Groove
III. Bisbigliando
IV. Ballade

Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Isoldes Liebestod Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Bio
Lauded as “a huge talent with hidden power and amazing maturity” (Bart van Oort) and “not [a harpist] to be slept on” (The Globe and Mail), Taiwanese-Canadian-American Noël Wan 萬依慈 commands a remarkably fresh creative voice, bridging charismatic artistry and intellect in her work as an international prize-winning solo harpist and interdisciplinary scholar.
Unparalleled in her musical versatility and technical virtuosity, Noël has garnered top prizes at major competitions, including the Astral Artists National Competition, USA International Harp Competition, Prix Orford Musique, and World Harp Competition. Her solo work spans classical repertoire to jazz transcriptions to experimental improvisation and has been supported by the Chimei Arts Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Florida State University.
Recent seasons include debut solo recitals in Chicago, Auckland, Hong Kong, China (Fuzhou, Wuxi), and Atlantic Canada; performances of Pull No More, Liliya Ugay’s award-winning solo electroacoustic harp work, at the Chicago Electro-Acoustic Festival, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, and CAMPGround Festival; and the premiere of “The Angel of Death,” an electroacoustic harp-sculpture designed by installation artist Tra Bouscaren. In July 2026, she will make her Elora Festival recital debut and give the world premiere of Jovian and Telluric, op. 54, Caroline Lizotte’s new work for flute and electroacoustic harp at One Harp World in Toronto.
An alumna of the University of Illinois (BM, DMA) and the Yale School of Music (MM), Noël is currently the Assistant Professor of Harp and Entrepreneurship at Florida State University and harp faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.

03/28/2026

Our next event is a concert and masterclass with renowned harpist Noël Wan! The concert will be on May 15, 2026, at 7:00 pm in Mel Lehan Hall at St. James Community Centre, 3214 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6K 2M9. The masterclass will be in Room 462 at UBC School of Music on May 16, starting at 1:00 pm. Tickets are available on www.westcoastharpsociety.org
https://nywharp.com/. Discount prices are available to members of the WCHS until the end of April, then they will be the same as for the general public. Noël is a brilliant, innovative, award-winning harpist who has recently joined the harp faculty at Curtis Institute of Music.
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03/14/2026

It was such a treat to hear Matt Dupont's recital on March 6. Wonderful choice of music, much of it Canadian masterpieces. Thank you, Matt, for your beautiful performance!