Elizabeth Steiner
harpist
Elizabeth Steiner is a harpist who has performed as principal harp with the Baltimore Symphony, the Delaware Symphony, & Orchestra 2001. She’s worked in collaboration with artists Tierra Whack, & Moses Sumney. She lives in Philadelphia.
J.S. Bach
Elizabeth Steiner performs
Suite No. 1, BWV 996
Passagio - Presto
“My family was at a restaurant called El Pescador,” she says, “and we listened to a band that had a harpist for over an hour. I didn’t play the harp yet, but its sound struck me, which became part of my musical conscience.”
Once Elizabeth began learning the harp, her parents sent her to Mexico for three months. “I stayed on General Santa Ana’s hacienda grounds,” she says, “and studied the harp with one of Mexico’s most famous harpists, Maestro Alberto de la Rosa.”
She still saves the Maestro’s sheet music.
Hear Elizabeth perform in the short film “ Le Noir Est Beau,” as featured in Vogue.