Greg Buchanan
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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-five years, and they have three children, Matthew, Erik and Bree. http://gregbuchananministries.org/ |
Laura Logan Brandenburg
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Laura Logan Brandenburg has served on the Texas Christian University School of Music faculty since 2001, where she teaches harp and harp pedagogy, coaches the TCU Harp Ensemble, and is director of the TCU Summer Harp Workshop. She has led the Octavia Harp Ensemble for the past 20-plus years. A highly regarded free-lance harpist, Laura currently serves as Principal Harp with the Lewisville Lake Symphony. She held the position of Principal Harp with the Richardson Symphony Orchestra from 1990 - 2010 as well as Principal Harp with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic from 1995 - 1997. Laura’s most recent adventures on harp include collaborating with Jeff Walters as The Logan/Walters Harp Duo, performing all original transcriptions and arrangements for two harps.
Active as a camp clinician specializing in harp ensemble repertoire, Laura has presented workshops locally and nationally for the past 25 years. She has served as a long-time board member of the American Harp Society in Dallas and is currently the AHS Southwestern Region Director. Laura is married to Allen Brandenburg, a 25 year R.N. with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Dallas. She considers her most significant lifetime achievement to be her two sons, Ethan and Luke, who have fallen asleep to the sound of harp music their entire lives and never once complained. |
Bonnie Mohr
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Bonnie earned a Masters in Music: Harp Performance from Azusa Pacific University and is currently Professor of Harp. She has worked as a professional harpist in the Los Angeles Area for 30 + years. Bonnie has performed internationally in Japan and Germany. She received her Certification as a Therapeutic Harpist through Compassionate Harps and works at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Bonnie is the chairperson of The Harp in Worship Conference. Her publications, Colorful Adventures on the Harp, Mohr Adventures Book II and Colorful Christmas Carols, are a popular teaching series. Harp recordings include: Song in the Night, Around the Christmas Tree and Pearl.
For more about Bonnie Mohr visit: http://bonnieharpsong.com/ |
Cindy Horstman
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Cindy Horstman has been performing, recording, writing, and arranging for the past four decades. Classically trained, she is the first recipient of a Master of Music degree in harp performance from the University of Texas at Austin and a prize winner in the Lyon & Healy International Jazz Harp Competition.
Cindy co-founded the jazz duo, “2tone”, with bassist Michael Medina, the producer of 2tone's 10 CDs. 2tone has toured nationally for 25 years and their recordings have received critical acclaim on Amazon.com and CD Baby. Horstman’s jazz theory workbook for harpists and her jazz-oriented arrangements and award-winning compositions for harp ensembles are very popular with harpists both nationally and internationally, becoming best sellers on the Harp Column Music website. For the past 10 years, Cindy has enjoyed being the Music Director for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Dallas, Texas where she leads the congregation in singing hymns and liturgy for weekly worship services and creates her own sacred arrangements for the harp to complement each service. Cindy is also the founder, director, composer, and arranger of The Dallas Jazz Harp Ensemble and the 13 member Brookhaven College Harp Ensemble in Dallas, Texas. In both ensembles, she emphasizes arranging and improvising within the jazz idiom. |