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Ceremony and Cocktail Music -Tatyana


Tatyana

Tatyana - Harpist

Tatyana's Bio:
A harp at your wedding or special event will play a big part in making your Wedding Day/Event beautiful and unforgettable. It will look gorgeous, sound heavenly, and inspire glowing comments from your guests. Tatyana is a professional, conservatory-trained harpist from St. Petersburg Russia. She is devoted to the magic of the harp, delighting her audience with a varied and distinctive repertoire, including music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods; traditional Hebrew and Christian melodies; and an expansive selection of contemporary favorites.


Tatyana enjoys a varied free-lance career playing for Weddings, civil partnerships corporate events, recitals and orchestral work. Tatyana prides herself in delivering a high standard of performance, with impeccable presentation, while maintaining a reliable and friendly approach. She proudly plays a Camac Athena concert harp which is considered to be a distinguished harp of exotic beauty, visually and audibly. An experienced recitalist and orchestral player she regularly performs for music societies, music festivals and at many other special events.

Tatyana began her study of music at the age of 7 in her native city of St. Petersburg, Russia. She fell in love with the harp at the age of 11, and as a talented young harpist became a delegate to the National Youth Harp Competition in Moscow, Russia. As a highly gifted musician Tatyana attended the Ohtinsky Cultural Center Music school and the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and graduated from the well known St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music in 1998. While in Russia, Tatyana taught harp at the St. Petersburg center for music and arts. Tatyana moved to the United States in 1999 where she received her Master's degree and worked on her Ph.D.in Music and Harp at the University of Arizona. She studied under Dr. Carrol McLaughlin. From 1999 to 2002 she was a part of World's largest harp touring ensemble Harpfusion. Tatyana's arrangements for the harp as well as her playing can be found on Harpfusion's latest 25th anniversary CD and DVD. Tatyana continues to perform professionally as a solo harpist as well as an ensemble and orchestral harpist. Her wide repertoire includes music from classical and baroque to modern.
She has performed internationally with orchestras, opera companies and ensembles in Russia and Europe, including a solo performance at the renowned Godunov Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in the United States as principal harpist with El Paso Opera Company and El Paso Symphony Orchestra and also as a harpist with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Tulare County Symphony Orchestra and Jewish Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles. She has also worked as a recording musician at Capital Records in Hollywood. Tatyana currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to perform and work on solo CD recording while she shares her natural talent and love of music with her harp students.

GROUP MEMBERS that she can play with for Weddings and Events include:
 HARP
 VIOLIN
 VOICE
 FLUTE
 PIANO/KEYBOARD
 GUITAR

Sample Song List:
Wedding music: Trumpet Voluntary, Ode to Joy by Beethoven, Canon in D, Bride's March, Wedding March by Mendelssohn, Prelude by Bach, Aria by Handel, Theme and Variations by Mozart, to name a few Classical music: Harp Concerto by F. Handel, Barcarolle by J. Offenbach, Endless Love...
World Wide music: Sunrise, Sunset, Erev Shel Shoshanim,...
I have hundreds of songs for any event you would like me to play.

Songslist:


Wedding music:
Canon in D  by J. Pachelbel
Trumpet Voluntary   by J. Clark
Wedding March     by  F. Mendelssohn
Bridal March    by   R. Wagner
Ave Maria     by  F. Schubert
Trumpet Tune by H. Purcell
Jesu,  Joy of Man’s Desiring   by  J. S. Bach
Prelude in C  by J. S. Bach
Arioso  by J.S Bach
Trumpet Tune
Ode to Joy  by L. Beethoven
Ave Maria by  Bach- Gounod

Classical/Romantic:
Concerto in B by G. F. Handel
First Arabesque  by C. Debussy 
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by S. Rachmaninoff
O mio bambino caro by G. Puccini
Nocturne by M. Glinka
Lucia by  Donicetti
Waltz by A.Durand
Spring Song by D. Thomas
Auf Flugeln Des Gesanges by F. Mendelssohn
Prelude- Ricordanza by H. Shaw
Barcarolle by J Offenbach
Minuett  by L. Boccherini
Waltz   by A. Griboedov
Fantasy ‘Eugene Onegin’ by Tchaikovsky
Variations on Mozart’s Theme by M. Glinka

Popular Tunes:
Forever in Love by Kenny G
Ballade pour Adeline by P. Senneville
This Guy’s in Love with You by Hal David
Endless love by L. Ritchie
O Sole Mio  by E. Curtis
As Times Goes By  by H. Huppfield
All I Ask of You   from ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
Can’t Help Falling in Love by G. Weiss
When I Fall in Love by E. Heyman
Love Me Tender  by E. Presley
Time to Say Goodbye by F. Sartori
Somewhere out there by J. Horner
Feelings  by M. Albert
The Homecoming  by H. Hardy
Try to Remember by Jones-Schmidt
Ebb Tide  by   Robert Maxwell
Somewhere in Time by J. Barry
How are Things in Glocca Morra?   by B. Lane
Through the Eyes of Love   from’ Ice Castle’ by M. Hamlisch
Can You Feel th Love Tonight from ‘Lion King’ by E. John
Summertime  by G. Gershwin
Think of Me   from ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White by Louiguy
The Music of the Night  by L. Webber
Londondery Air  “Danny Boy “
Granada   by A. Lara
Angel of Music  from ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
From This Moment On  by S. Twain
There is Love –The Wedding Song  by
The Prayer  by   C. Bayer and D. Foster
The Rose    by  A. McBroom
The Wind Bebeath my Wings  by L. Henley
My Own True Love –Tara Theme by  M. Steiner
Lady  by L. Richie
My Love  by  Tony Hatch
And I love You So   by D. McLean
A Summer Place  by M. Steiner
Send in the Clowns  by S. Sondheim
Moondance   by  V. Morrison
Hawaiin Wedding Song  “ Ke Kali Nei Au”
Evergreen   by B. Streisand
Sunrise, Sunset   by J. Bock
And I Love Her  by J. Lennon
Here, There and Everywhere  by J. Lennon
I  Will    by J. Lennon and P. McCartney
I’m Happy Just to Dance With You
In My Life  by J. Lennon and P. McCartney
Norwegian Wood  By J. Lennon
Danza Cubana   by A. Ortiz
Milonga Para Amar   by A. Ortiz

JewishSongs:
Hava  Nagila
Erev Ba
Dodi Li
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Siman TovYidishe Ma’me
Sunrise, Sunset
Shalom Alechem

 
 
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