Nan Gullo Richmond

Instructor of Harp

E-mail: music@houghton.edu
Phone: 585.567.9400

Nan Gullo Richmond graduated from the Juilliard School of Music where she studied with Marcel Grandjany; the Penn State University where she received a M.Ed; and the Eastman School of Music where she earned a D.M.A., studying harp with Eileen Malone and Kathleen Bride. She has been a winner of Concert Artists Guild with a New York City Town Hall debut. As a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony for six years, she toured the U.S., Europe and the middle East. She has toured the U.S. as soloist with the Chicago Little Symphony and has given numerous solo and chamber music recitals.

While at Juilliard she was the Founding Secretary of the American Harp Society and was the founder of the Central Pa. Chapter of the AHS. She has served as President of the Rochester Chapter. Her collection of 18th and 19th Century harp music is housed at the Eastman Sibley Music Library in Special Collections. Her publications from this Collection are published by the Historical Harp Society. She has written articles on teaching for” Music Journal”.

Nan Gullo Richmond has taught at Penn State, Houghton College, and Roberts Wesleyan College. Currently she teaches studio harp at the Eastman Community Music School and also directs two harp ensembles. She directs the annual ECMS Harp Workshop in July. In 2007 she received the Jack L. Frank Award for excellence in teaching. She is a specialist in the Grandjany approach to harp instruction.

Honors:

Inclusion in 2010-11 Edition of Who's Who in North American Education

Inclusion in 2010-2011 Edition of The Global Directory of Who's Who

Conferences:

Presenter at the Historical Harp Society Annual Conference, June 8-19, 2009, in conjunction with the Boston Early Music Festival, Boston, MA.

Publications:

Bochsha, Nicholas Charles (1789-1856). Editied by Nan Gullo Richmond. Duo pour deux harpes, Op. 19 (1820). Published by Historical Harp Society. 2009.

Nan Gullo Richmond (ed.). Philipp Joseph Hinner: Duo for Two Harps in Eb (1780). Historical Harp Society, 2004.

Nan Gullo Richmond (ed.). Francesco Petrini: Duo for Clavecin and Harp (c.1778). Historical Harp Society, 2006.

Nan Gullo. Hemisphere Laterality of the Brain and Music. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1982.

Courses: Studio Harp