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Genres
  
Classical music

Instruments
  
Harp


Years active
  
1991–present

Name
  
Valerie Gordon

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Occupation(s)
  
Harpist, musician, teacher, lecturer

Hovhaness: Spirit of Trees, Op. 374, i: andante cantabile


Valerie Muzzolini Gordon (born in Nice, France) is a harpist and the Principal Harpist of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Currently, she lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, David Gordon and their daughter.

Contents

Hovhaness: Spirit of Trees, Op. 374, iv: allegro con spirito


Early life and education

Valerie Muzzolini Gordon was born in Nice, France and began playing the harp at the age of seven. She began her study of music at the Nice Conservatory. Muzzolini Gordon went on to continue her studies at Curtis Institute of Music with Marilyn Costello and Judy Loman. She studied with Nancy Allen while doing graduate work at Yale University.

Orchestra and ensembles

Valerie Muzzolini Gordon has been a member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra since 2000 and became the Principal Harpist at the age of twenty-three. She is highly sought after, both as a soloist and as a guest principal harpist, and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Nice Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, and the Vancouver Symphony. As a proponent of contemporary music and an active Chamber musician, she frequently performs with Music of Remembrance, Seattle Chamber Players. and the Seattle Chamber Music Society. Valerie Muzzolini Gordon premiered a double concerto for violin and harp at the 2012 New Hampshire Music Festival.

Teaching

Valerie Muzzolini taught for several years at Cornish College of the Arts, and is now an Artist in Residence at the University of Washington. She taught at the Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy in June 2014, and will be returning for the 2015 program.

References

Valerie Muzzolini Gordon Wikipedia


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