Nancy Allen (harpist)

Nancy Allen (born 1954 in Carmel, New York) is an American harpist.

Life

Allen studied in New York at Pearl Chertok. In the summer of 1972 she went to Paris to study with Lily Laskine. Later that year she returned to New York and studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Marcel Grandjany. In 1973 she won the first prize at the International Harp Competition in Israel. Nancy Allen has given many concerts and made ​​recordings. Your intake of Maurice Ravel's Introduction and Allegro received a Grammy nomination. Since 1999 she has been the harpist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and she has taught at the Juilliard School of Music, Yale School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival. Today she lives with her daughter in New York.

A major artist, with virtuosity all the more impressive for being incidental to the projection of expressive values ​​. - New York Times