Kimberly Houser
Kimberly Houser |
Kimberly Houser (Professional-in-Residence, Harp, Louisiana State University) has been performing on the harp since she was eight years old. She started her study with Marion Fouse in Portland, Oregon, performing her first full recitals and freelancing actively while in high school. Houser received a scholarship for music study from the University of Arizona where she studied with Dr. Carrol McLaughlin. She has since received her Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees from the University of Arizona while on full scholarship. In her doctoral studies she seriously pursued studies in Music Composition which she studied with Dr. Pamela Decker. Houser has also studied in Europe with the principal harpist of the Paris Opera, Catherine Michel. She has performed at The World Harp Congress, The American Harp Society Convention and the Soka City international Festival in Japan. She has toured Mexico, Japan, Prague and Puerto Rico and has performed in venues such as Casals Hall, Tokyo and Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle. Houser spent three years as Principal Harpist with the Billings Symphony in Billings, MT. As the only professional harpist in Montana she traveled extensively throughout the state serving as the harpist to all of the regional orchestras. She also taught harp both privately and through Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She has served as principal harp for the Columbia Symphony in Portland, Oregon and was on the faculty at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, where she taught music theory, history and appreciation. Houser’s first solo CD, Pure Harp, was reviewed in the Oct/Nov 2006 issue of Fanfare Magazine.|
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