The Nashville Harp Society is pleased to present jazz harpist Cindy Horstman on Sunday, September 22. This FREE concert will be held at Belmont University’s McAfee Concert Hall. The program will include originals, arrangements, and jazz standards.

If you are a harpist or jazz student, you can also join us for two FREE workshops, also held at McAfee Hall. Registration required via email to NashvilleHarpSociety@gmail.com.

Workshop Schedule:

1:30-2:30 – Basic Improvisation for Harp

3:30 – 5:00 – Adding a touch of Jazz to your Arrangements

This weekend is made possible in part by a grant from the American Harp Society. 

About Cindy:

Cindy Horstman has been performing, recording, writing, and arranging for harp for the past four decades. Classically trained, she received her Bachelor of Music in Theory / Composition from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the first recipient of a Master of Music degree in Harp Performance from the University of Texas and a prize winner in the Lyon & Healy International Jazz Harp Competition.  Her teachers include Gayle Barrington, award winning composer, Donald Grantham, Lucille Lawrence, Alice Chalifoux, and Mimi Allen. 

Horstman’s love of jazz inspired her to write a Jazz Theory Workbook for harpists that has been a best seller on many harp retail websites. Her jazz-oriented arrangements for harp ensembles are very popular with harpists both nationally and internationally and her award winning compositions include prizes from the American Harp Society chapters in both Dallas and Los Angeles. 

Cindy is the founder, director, composer, and arranger of The Dallas Jazz Harp Ensemble and the 12 member Brookhaven College Harp Ensemble in Dallas, Texas. In both ensembles, she emphasizes arranging and improvising within the jazz idiom.