Portia Diwa, a talented young harpist, plays traditional Celtic, Latin, and Classical music as well as Meditative, Contemporary, and original compositions on a 36 stringed neo-Celtic lever harp by Jerry Goldsberrry and 26 string "Harpsicle" harp by William Rees. Portia began her harp career at age 9 and has been actively performing in the Bay Area ever since.  Her experiences in performing started with the "Fantastic Five Harpers" and grew to large audiences in places throughout Norther California with the "Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble" as well as "Pleiades Ensemble" where she became a soloist as well as a composer and arranger of ensemble music.  Portia taught and directed the "Mission Harp Ensemble" in San Francisco with Diana Stork for several years.  Portia also taught the "Bahia Vista Harp Ensemble" at Bahia Vista Elementary School in San Rafael for 3 years.  The goal of both of these ensembles was to provide underprivileged inner-city youth with access to harp lessons, to help them in their emotional, social and intellectual growth through the beauty and healing properties of the harp.  The "Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble," "Mission Harp Ensemble," and "Bahia Vista Harp Ensemble" are sponsored by the Multi-Cultural Music Fellowship.  Visit www.multiculturalmusicfellowship.org to see the Festival of Harps 20th Anneversary Video, which includes some beautiful video footage of Portia's hands.  Portia is the Healing Harp Clinical Supervisor at the Institute for Health & Healing at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.  She provides theraputic harp music to soothe patients, family and staff, teaches beginning and intermediate Healing Harp group classes and private lessons, and teaches a year-long certification program in Healing Harp and Integrative Medicine Education. For information on this program, please contact Portia. Portia enjoys teaching the harp to the young and old, beginning and advanced students in the Bay Area.  Additionally, Portia has performed as a soloist and ensemble member at a number of well-known venues.  She is a member of the Celtic harp trio "Triskela" with Diana Stork and Shawna Spiteri.  Triskela has performed nationally at places such as the 2005 HarpCon International Harp Conference in Montana and in California at the Dorothy Spreckles Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park. Their debut CD "Voice of Tara" is available online at CD Baby.  You can also check out Triskela's fanpage on MySpace and Facebook.      Portia enjoys playing harp music for weddings, special events, and conferences, as well as healing harp music for labyrinth walks, hospitals, and nursing homes.  Portia also teaches healing harp workshops throughout the Bay Area.  To book an event, please contact Portia.

 

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