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Alice Giles Harp T: +61 2 6125 5783 E: Alice.Giles@anu.edu.au

Alice Giles has been acclaimed as one of the world's leading harp soloists. The Australian-born musician first attracted international notice in 1982 when she won the First Prize in Israel's International Harp Contest. She made her New York debut at Merkin Hall in 1983, and was invited by Rudolf Serkin to participate for three summers in the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, USA.

She has participated in numerous festivals, including the Salzedo Centennial in Austin, Texas, World Harp Congress in Copenhagen, World Harp Festival in Cardiff, Edinburgh Harp Festival, Bath Mozartfest, Scotia Festival, Adelaide and Sydney Festivals, Schleswig-Holstein and Insel Hombroich Festivals in Germany. Concert highlights include solo recitals in London's Wigmore Hall, New York's 92nd Street Y, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Berlin Philharmonie, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington D.C and Toronto, and concertos with the Collegium Musicum Zurich, Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the English Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, and Hamburg Mozart Orchestra. Alice also performs regularly with all the major Australian symphony and chamber orchestras.

Alice Giles was regarded by Luciano Berio as the foremost interpreter of his Sequenza II and has taken part in tributes to Berio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Salzburg Mozarteum and at the 92nd Street Y. Alice has an international reputation as a teacher, having given masterclasses in the Salzburg Mozarteum, Den Haag Conservatorium, Royal Academy London, Cleveland Institute, the Julliard School, and Curtis Institute.

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3rd Australian Harp Festival
26- 29 September 2008

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National Harp Weekend
17-19 September 2004

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