Stephanie Bennett (harpist)
One of our country's top harpists" -The Hollywood Reporter
Stephanie Bennett has performed in the United States, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Panama, France and Switzerland, including solo harp performances of her own compositions at the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), as a guest artist at the International Music Seminars in Montpelier, France (opening for Chick Corea), and at the International Conference on Women in Music. She has performed for President Obama, the President of Israel, and the President of Ireland.
Stephanie plays harp on recordings by many other artists (including the Dixie Chicks, Sir Paul McCartney, Josh Groban, Lee Ann Rimes and Linda Ronstadt; and on Grammy® winning albums by Adele and by Beck.
She has also appeared onscreen in television, movies and music videos, including American Idol, Dancing with the Stars (with Florence and the Machine), Ellen (also with Florence and the Machine), THE SWEETEST THING with Cameron Diaz, Celine Dion's Christmas special, hit movie THE OTHER SISTER (with Diane Keaton, Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi); LOVE AFFAIR with Warren Beatty, GYPSY with Bette Midler, COBB with Tommy Lee Jones, and the FRANK SINATRA mini-series.
Stephanie Bennett got her degree in classical harp performance at the University of Michigan, where she also studied composition with Pulitzer Prize winning composers Leslie Bassett and Ross Lee Finney. She continued her music studies at the Dick Grove School of Music and at UCLA Extension, with courses in Advanced Modern Harmony (including jazz and pop music harmony), Arranging, 20th Century Harmony, Film Scoring, etc. She was the first prize winner in the second Salvi International Competition of Jazz & Pop Harp held in Santa Barbara, California.
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Isn't She Lovely
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A Big Cat Hug
