Music at St Helena's Church - Beaufort

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Friday Organ Concerts at Noon - Parish Church of St. Helena, Beaufort                 - Friday, April 12, 2013
Dr. Julia Harlow of Second Presbyterian Church, Charleston, SC performing

Concerts last approximately 50 minutes and are free and open to the public

About the artist.  Dr. Julia Harlow is director of music and organist at Second Presbyterian Church in Charleston and teaches organ and harpsichord at the College of Charleston. She also taught music history, ear training, keyboard harmony, and music appreciation.
 
Originally from Iowa City, Iowa, she lived in the Pacific Northwest before coming to the Lowcountry 16 years ago. She earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance and Pedagogy and Master of Music in Early Keyboard Performance degrees at the University of Oregon (Eugene), and the Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from the University of Iowa.
 
Her teachers have been Delbert Disselhorst (organ), Guy Bovet and John Hamilton (organ and harpsichord), and Joan Benson (clavichord). She has performed in master classes and concerts in Germany, Holland, and Canada for Gustav Leonhardt, Colin Tilney, and Harald Vogel. In addition to performing as a harpsichordist, she also tunes and maintains several instruments in the Charleston area.
 
She has extensive performance experience of early music, Celtic, Balkan, and Middle Eastern folk music and has often performed as harpsichordist or organist at the College of Charleston, in Piccolo Spoleto, with the Charleston Symphony, and Chamber Music Charleston.
 
In June, 2010 she formed the ensemble “La Belle Musique” which performs music of the 17th and 18th centuries, notably that of women composers.