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Anita Burroughs-Price Anita Burroughs-Price is principal harpist with the North Carolina Symphony. She has appeared as soloist with the NC Symphony, Durham Symphony and the South Carolina Chamber Orchestra. She frequently appears in solo recital and has been featured in the Piccolo Spoleto Festival and in England's Brighton Palace. Memorable events include a performance with Grammy award winner Branford Marsalis, a duo appearance with Marilyn Kaiser, world renowned organist and professor at Indiana University. In addition to the pedal harp, her recitals often include harps from Ireland, Africa, Paraguay, and a rare Erard single-action harp from England. Anita is a graduate of Furman University with a double major in French and Harp Performance. Her teacher there was Marjorie Tyre, former harpist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She earned the Master of Music degree from Yale University which also awarded her the illustrious Alumni Prize. In 1985, Anita received a Rotary International Fellowship for post-graduate study with Marisa Robles at London's Royal College of Music where she earned diplomas in harp performance and harp pedagogy. Other teachers include Catherine Michel of the Paris Opera and Nancy Allen in Aspen. A devoted educator, Anita is often sponsored by institutions for cultural arts presentations and appears under the auspices of the United Arts Council's Artists-in-Education program. She is the head of the harp department at Furman University and has served on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Wake Forest University, St. Mary's School, and the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts. Her students have won many competitions and scholarships for further study at Eastman and Peabody. A scholar of early harp music, Anita has been the recipient of Regional Artist Project Grants from the United Arts Council for travel to London to research the history, technique and repertoire of her rare 1810 Erard single-action harp. (This instrument was selected by Haydn's favorite harpist, Mme Anne-Marie Krumpholtz Krumpholtz for her friend and member of Parliament, Samuel Farmer). Anita Burroughs-Price has supported arts thought her volunteer performances for many charities, churches, synagogues and civic groups. She has performed in soup kitchens, prisons, in Red Cross hurricane shelters, hospitals, and at the bedside of terminally ill patients. She was awarded the 1999 Raleigh Medal of Arts, the city's highest award, for her "outstanding artistry and humanitarian service." Her CD "Healing Touch," (2006 winner of the Excellence in Media Silver Angel Award) includes music of hope and reflection and features North Carolina Symphony musicians, Brian Reagin, violin; Bonnie Thron, cello; and Donna Jolly, organ.
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