Sally Pryce – Harp
 Praised for her ‘deft musicality’ and ‘truly
astonishing abilities’, Sally is much in demand as both soloist and chamber musician at major venues and festivals throughout the
UK and abroad.At age 9 Sally won scholarships to attend both the Purcell School of Music and the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music. She continued her studies at the RCM with Daphne Boden, again as a scholar, and graduated in 2001 with first class honours and the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Silver Medal for outstanding musical achievement. During this time she gained extra tuition from international harpists including Marisa Robles, Osian Ellis, Sioned Williams and Catherine Michel. Sally has won numerous prizes including first prize in the 1999 London Harp Competition and in 1998 reached the final six in the prestigious International Harp Contest held in Israel. She has also won the Marisa Robles Harp Prize and was twice a string finalist in the Royal Over-Seas League Competition. Other competition success includes winning all the harp prizes and the concerto prize at the Royal College of Music, and she was a finalist in the 1996 BBC Young Musicians Competition. Winning the Worshipful Company of Musicians' 'Maisie Lewis Award' lead to Sally's debut recital at the Wigmore Hall in 2002 and in 2003 she was selected for representation by the Young Concert Artist Trust (YCAT), only the second harpist to achieve this.  Sally continues to give recitals at major venues and
festivals throughout the UK as a soloist, with flautist Adam Walker and with the Sally Pryce Ensemble including concerts at
Wigmore Hall, St. George’s Bristol, Bridgewater Hall, Queen's Hall Edinburgh and at the Presteigne, Newbury Spring, King’s
Lynn, Chester, Harrogate, Windsor, and Ryedale Festivals. Further afield she has given concerts in Paris, Madrid, Geneva,
Hungary, Czech Republic, Israel, Tokyo and the USA. In 2006 she gave a critically acclaimed Park Lane Group solo recital at
the Purcell Room.Sally’s concerto work has included performances of Debussy’s Danses with the Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Ensemble and Britten Sinfonia, works by Gliere, Debussy and Mozart with the Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra and performances of Ginastera’s Concerto and Handel’s Concerto in B flat in several venues around the UK. With Adam Walker (flute) she has performed Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic and Bournemouth Orchestras and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Mostly Mozart Festival, Barbican). As a member of the Live Music Now! Scheme, Sally gave over 200 concerts in community settings across the country between 2002-06. A keen advocate of expanding the repertoire for her instrument, she has given several world premieres of new works and has performed with the contemporary ensembles Lontano and Okeanos. Sally is also in demand as a free-lance player with several orchestras in the UK, including Northern Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Ballet and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also appeared on Norwegian and British television and American and British Radio, including numerous BBC Radio 3 broadcasts. In addition to her Ensemble, Sally has started a duo called the Dorette Violin and Harp Duo with the Irish violinist Elizabeth Cooney. Solo Repertoire |