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Greg is a world-class harpist whose aggressive style of playing redefines
the listener’s concept of harp performance. His ministry has been
a mainstay in American churches for twenty-five years. Greg’s innovative
style draws the listener into the very presence of our Lord, from tender
worship to foot tapping, hand clapping, jazz-styled praise. His love for
the Lord and his appreciation of his deliverance from many years of addiction
to drugs, alcohol, and the occult give him a genuine love for others that
is expressed
powerfully through his ministry. Greg presents a heartfelt testimony to which
today’s hurting people can truly relate. He has multiple recordings to
his credit and has appeared at many major conferences, conventions, churches,
and Christian colleges.
He has been married to his wife Becky, for twenty-three years, and they have
three children, Matthew, Erik and Bree.
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Ellie Choate’s musical versatility has afforded her the opportunity
to touch virtually every area of music making. She is as likely
to be found in the opera or symphony orchestra as on stage with show orchestras
backing headline artists. She has worked “behind the scenes” on
the musical scores of many major motion pictures and recordings, but has
also appeared on camera for movies and television shows. She is
an active soloist and chamber musician, playing for events and concerts
all around Southern California.
Throughout her childhood, Ellie’s family was actively involved
in their church, where she directed children’s choirs and handbell
choirs as a teen and young adult. While still in college, her minister
asked her to provide improvised harp accompaniment to a sermon he intended
to deliver, opening a door to a new musical experience “off the
page”. While not the focus of her early piano and harp studies,
arranging and improvisation have become a central part of her career. Her
solo harp CDs feature her arrangements of pop and jazz tunes, and she
has published arrangements of Chanukah and Hymn tunes for harp ensemble.
In addition to her private studio, Ellie is on the applied music faculty
at UC Irvine, CSU Fullerton, and California Baptist University. She
was the chair for the 2005 AHS Summer Institute at USC and has done workshops
on arranging, rhythm and pedagogy for the Los Angeles and Dallas chapters
of the American Harp Society.
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Robbin Gordon-Cartier was graduated from Montclair State University
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education. As a young harpist,
she spent summers in Dublin, Ireland, studying at
the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Mrs. Gordon-Cartier Performance credits include appearances at Carnegie
Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City; the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center; the Pablo Casals Music Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico;
and the National Symphony Orchestra of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She
has appeared on several television shows and recordings and at events
honoring Lord Guiness, Cicely Tyson and Sir James Galway. Most recently
she was a member of the orchestras for the Three Irish Tenors concerts
and Clay Aikens “Make a Joyful Noise” tour. She frequently
plays at churches and gospel events.
Mrs. Gordon-Cartier is a teacher and directs the
harp program for the school the East Orange School District in New Jersey.
Robbin grew up in the church where her grandfather was the minister.
She shares, “As a child, it was my faith in God that helped me when
I was so far away from home in the summers. Every Sunday I would
go to church and it kept me grounded. For me the scripture in Matthew
5:16 - (Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven) means a lot to my life. If
people can see the light in me, even when it may be a light that they
don't yet understand or believe where it comes from; they see what God
has done in my life.”
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A native of Lubbock, Texas, Jill began studying harp upon entering Texas Tech
University. After graduation, Jill moved to Lawton, Oklahoma, where she taught
private harp lessons, taught general music in a private Christian school, and
played harp with the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra.
After moving to Oklahoma City, Jill played 10 years with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic,
the Enid-Phillips Symphony Orchestra, and again with the Lawton Philharmonic.
Jill served as an adjunct instructor of harp for the University of Central Oklahoma
and Southern Nazarene University. She has played harp with the International
Christian Embassy orchestra for their Feast of Tabernacles Celebration in Jerusalem,
an international gathering of Christian artists, singers, dancers and musicians
in support of Israel.
All her musical life, Jill's primary goal has been to write, perform and publish
Christian music for the harp. In 2001, that goal led to opportunities for Jill
to teach seminars for using the harp in church music. In 2002, Jill was honored
to be one of the faculty for Lyon and Healy Harp company's Liturgical Harp Music
conference.
is married to Jill and will be
playing together with her on the evening concert. Joel plays fiddle, mandolin,
bagpipes, pedal steel guitar, banjo, guitar, low whistles and penny whistles.
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| began studying harp as
a child and went on to earn a degree in harp performance from the University
of South Florida. Being raised in a musical family
and Christian home, she began playing in church early on, and has continued
to use her music to honor and serve God. She is a church music director
as well as a free lance performer in Myrtle Beach, SC. Becky was
the 1999 winner of the Lyon Healy International Jazz
and Pop Harp Competition.
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PEARL is a worship team of four dear friends. In the fall
of 1999, Bonnie Mohr, Sherry Nissen and Robin Spurs were attending the
Wednesday morning Women’s Bible Study at Sierra Madre Congregational
Church. As they led worship, their friendship began to grow,
and they realized how much they enjoyed playing and singing
together.
"We realized we had a unique sound and decided to form a trio called PEARL. Very
soon, our trio became four as God added another dear sister in Christ, Tammy
Trypucko, and the layers of our PEARL were complete."
The name PEARL was inspired from Matthew 13: 45,46: “And
again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls,
and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had
and bought it.”
"We also felt the name described our musicality, as we seek to sound soft,
lustrous and smooth; intentionally layering our instruments and voices for variety
and beauty."
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Sylvia Woods has been playing the harp for over 30
years, and has written and published over 20 harp music books that are
used by harp players of all levels, several books that include Hymns
and Christmas Carols.
She
has been a major proponent in the renaissance of
interest in the Celtic harp. Her three recordings
include Sylvia’s
original Suite for Celtic Harp, The Harp of Brandiswhiere, and
two recordings of Christmas music, Three Harps for
Christmas; Volumes 1 and 2. Sylvia’s
retail establishment, The Sylvia Woods Harp Center is
the largest harp store in the world, selling harps,
music, books and harp accessories. In 1999 she began playing handbells
as a member of the Wesleyan Ringers at the First United Methodist Church
of Glendale, California. In 2001 she began adapting some of her solo harp
arrangements for harp and handbells.
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