Cornwall Wedding Harpist - Harpist & Trumpeter

This professional harpist lives in Cornwall, in the West Country and also plays the trumpet so can provide you with a fanfare as well!

She offers a friendly, professional service providing instrumental music for a wide range of private and corporate events.

Music is her passion and she has been playing the harp and the trumpet from a young age and has amassed a wealth of experience and gained an extensive repertoire of solo, chamber and orchestral works.  

Most recently the Cornwall Wedding Harpist has studied the harp with the internationally renowned harpists Gabriella Dall'Olio, Head of Harp at Trinity College of Music and Catherine White Principal Harp Tutor of the Birmingham Conservatoire and the natural trumpet with John Hutchins of the Royal Academy of Music. 

In 2009 she graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters degree.

Every bride deserves to have a wonderful wedding full of magic and romance.  The music of one of the most beautiful instruments on earth can bring added splendour to this special day, and the fanffare of the trumpet will add that extra wow factor! 

Whether you are planning a civil ceremony or a church wedding both the harp and the trumpet make the perfect accompaniment. Being classically trained, The Cornwall Wedding Harpist can offer a wide variety of music and will work with you to help you decide exactly what you would like.

You might also consider a trumpet fanfare to announce the entrance of the bride or the departure of the happy couple.

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Cornwall Wedding Harpist - Harpist & Trumpeter Repertoire

Popular, Jazz and Contemporary:

  • Closest Thing to Crazy – Mike Batt (sung by Katie Melua)
  • Nine Million Bicycles – Mike Batt (sung by Katie Melua)
  • Lady Lynda – The Beach Boys
  • Love Me Do – The Beatles
  • Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – The Beatles
  • All You Need is Love – The Beatles
  • Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
  • Flaws and All – Beyoncé
  • Be Without You – Mary J. Blige
  • Crashed the Wedding – Busted
  • Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
  • Symphony – Clean Bandit
  • Halleluia – Leonard Cohen (also sung by John Cale, Jeff Buckley and others)
  • Clocks – Coldplay
  • Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay
  • Video Games – Lana Del Rey
  • Take Five – Paul Desmond (performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet)
  • Make You Feel My Love – Bob Dylan (also sung by Adele)
  • I Giorni – Ludovico Einaudi
  • Le Onde – Ludovico Einaudi
  • Nuvole Biance – Ludovico Einaudi
  • Una Matina – Ludovico Eisnaudi
  • Mirrorball – Elbow
  • Only Time – Enya
  • Songbird – Fleetwood Mac (also sung by Eva Cassidy)
  • Everlong – Foo Fighters
  • Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day
  • Sweet Child o’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
  • White Wedding – Billy Idol
  • The Trooper – Iron Maiden
  • Your Song – Elton John
  • Better Together – Jack Johnson
  • All My Life – K-Ci & JoJo
  • Better Together – Jack Johnson
  • Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
  • All of Me – John Legend
  • Free Bird – Lynyrd Sknyrd
  • Marry You – Bruno Mars
  • Is This Love – Bob Marley
  • Starry Starry Night – Don McLean
  • Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
  • I Won’t Give Up – Jason Mraz 
  • Milonga para Amar – Dr Alfredo Rolando Ortiz
  • Fireflies – Owl City
  • Wedding of Cupid and Psyche – Judith Pintar
  • My Destiny – Lionel Richie
  • Next to Me – Emeli Sandé
  • Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)? – Peter Sarstedt
  • How Long Will I Love You - Mike Scott (sung by Ellie Goulding)
  • Kiss Me – Ed Sheeran
  • Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
  • Perfect – Ed Sheeran
  • Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkle
  • Underneath Your Clothes – Shakira
  • Stay With Me – Sam Smith
  • Secret Garden – Bruce Springsteen
  • Fields of Gold – Sting (also sung by Eva Cassidy and Katie Melua)
  • Golden Brown – The Stranglers
  • Wildest Dreams – Taylor Swift
  • One – U2
  • Higher Love – Steve Winwood (also sung by Whitney Houston)
  • River Flows in You – Yiruma
  • Wonderful World – Peretti-Creatore-Weiss (sung by Louis Armstrong)
  • Can’t Help Falling in Love – Peretti-Creatore-Weiss: (sung by Elvis Presley)
  • I’m Coming Out – Edwards-Rodgers (sung by Diana Ross)
  • When You Say Nothing At All – Overstreet-Schlitz (sung by Keith Whitley, Roman Keating and others)

From Films, Television and Musicals:

  • Arlen: Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
  • Armstrong: Glasgow Love Theme (from Love Actually)
  • Blake: Walking in the Air (from The Snowman) 
  • Del Rey: Young and Beautiful (from The Great Gatsby)
  • Des’ree: Kissing You (from Romeo Juliet)
  • Djwadi: Game of Thrones Theme Music
  • Elfman: Ice Dance (from Edward Scissorhands)
  • Gershwin: Someone to Watch Over Me (from Oh, Kay!)
  • Goo Goo Dolls: Iris (from City of Angels)
  • Horner: For the Love of a Princess (from Braveheart)
  • Kent: Bring Me Sunshine (from Morecombe and Wise)
  • Lloyd Webber: Songs from The Phantom of the Opera, Catz and Evita
  • Mancini: Moon River (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
  • Mancini: The Pink Panther (from The Pink Panther)
  • McBroom: The Rose (from The Rose)
  • Myers: Cavatina (from Walking Stick and The Deer Hunter)
  • Newman: You’ve Got a Friend in Me (from Toy Story)
  • Rodgers: Songs from The Sound of Music, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I
  • Silvestri: Legend (from Practical Magic)
  • Sondheim: Send in the Clowns (from A Little Night Music)
  • Tiersen: Comptine d’un autre éte: L’après midi (from Amélie)
  • Williams: Jurassic Park Theme Music
  • Shore: Concerning Hobbits (from Lord of the Rings)
  • Lennox, Walsh & Shore: Into the West (from The Lord of the Rings)
  • Burwell: Bella’s Lullaby (from Twilight)
  • Iron and Wine: Flightless Bird American Mouth (from Twilght)
  • Christian Perry: A Thousand Years (from Twilight)
  • Sleeping at Last: Turning Page (from Twilight)
  • Bock, Weiss & Holofcener: Mr Wonderful (from Mr Wonderful)
  • Bricusse & Newley: Pure Imagination (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
  • Pasek & Paul: A Million Dreams (from The Greatest Showman)
  • Various: Love Me Like You Do (from Fifty Shades of Grey)
  • Menken: Songs from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin
  • Elton John: Songs from The Lion King
  • Anderson-Lopez & Lopez: Songs from Frozen

Classical:

  • Alvars: Romance in A flat
  • Albinoni: Adagio (from Oboe Concerto)
  • J. S. Bach: Prelude in C
  • J. S. Bach: Suite BWV 1006A
  • J. S. Bach: Presto (from Violin Sonata No. 1)
  • J. S. Bach: Prelude (from Cello Suite No. 1)
  • Boyce: Canon in C
  • Britten: Interlude from A Ceremony of Carols
  • Byrd: Wolsey’s Wilde
  • Byrd: La Volta 
  • Cabezón: Pavane and Variations
  • Campion: Now Hath Flora Robb’d her Bow’rs
  • Canteloube: Bourres d’Auvergne
  • Charpentier: Trumpet Prelude
  • Clarke: The Prince of Denmark’s March 
  • Corelli: Sarabande (from Sonata No. 7)
  • Debussy: The Girl with Flaxen Hair
  • Debussy: Clair de Lune
  • Debussy: First Arabesque
  • Debussy: Réverie
  • Délibes: Flower Duet (from Lakmé)
  • Donizetti: Nò, Nò Che Infelice Appieno (from Ugo Comte di Parigi)
  • Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae Pavane
  • Dowland: Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home
  • Dowland: The Earl of Essex Galliard
  • Farnaby: Nobody’s Gig
  • Farnaby: Giles Farnaby’s Dreame
  • Fauré: Pavane
  • Glinka: Nocturne
  • Gounod: Ave Maria
  • Grandjany: Automne
  • Händel: Concerto in B Flat Major
  • Händel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon)
  • Hasselmans: Trois Petites Bluettes
  • Hasselmans: Feuilles D’Automne
  • Holborne: Hartes Ease
  • G. Holst: Song Without Words “I’ll Love My Love”
  • G. von Holst: Serenade
  • G. von Holst: Ye Banks and Braes
  • G. von Holst: The Farewell of Raoul de Coucy
  • Jones: Ar Hyd y Nos
  • Lehar: Love Unspoken (from The Merry Widow)
  • Macdowell: To a Wild Rose
  • Massenet: Meditation (from Thais)
  • Mendelssohn: Wedding March (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
  • Morely: It was a Lover and his Lass
  • Munday: Robin
  • Offenbach: Barcarolle (from Tales of Hoffman)
  • Pachelbel: Canon in D
  • Playford: All in a Garden Green
  • Puccini:  Musetta’s Waltz (from La Bohème)
  • Puccini: O Mio Babbino Caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
  • Purcell: Trumpet Tune
  • Purcell: Dido’s Lament (from Dido and Aeneas)
  • Respighi: Siciliana 
  • de Ribayaz: Marionas
  • Satie: Trois Gymnopédies
  • Schubert: Ave Maria
  • R. Schumann: Träumerei
  • Stanley: Trumpet Voluntary
  • Susato: Nachtanz
  • Tailleferre: Sonata for Harp
  • Thomas: Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn
  • Verdi: La Donna e Mobile (from Rigoletto)
  • Verdi: Va Pensiero (from Nabucco)
  • Wagner: Bridal Chorus (from Lohengrin)

A Variety of Folk Music including:

  • Greensleeves
  • Scarborough Fair
  • Dark Lady of the Glen
  • Brian Boru’s March
  • Londonderry Air
  • Carolan’s Concerto
  • Carolan’s Dream
  • Si Bheag Si Mhor
  • Bridget Cruise
  • She Moved through the Fair
  • Ash Grove
  • David of the White Rock
  • The King’s Departure
  • Watching the White Wheat
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Ye Banks and Braes
  • My Love is like a Red, Red Rose
  • Skye Boat Song
  • I Love My Love
  • Strawberry Fair
  • Sweet Nightingale
  • Trelawny

Cornwall Wedding Harpist - Harpist & Trumpeter Feedback

Thank you so much for playing wonderfully at our wedding. You were great when we were planning the day and really helped us with the choice of suitable pieces. Having you play before the ceremony relaxed and entertained our guests who were enthralled by the beautiful sound of your harp which really created a special atmosphere. It made our day so memorable!

Julie and Gareth, Buckinghampshire, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (June, 2017)

You played wonderfully, and I received several compliments from guests!

Simon, Bassmead Manor, Wedding Reception (March, 2017)

Thank you so much for playing at our wedding. The harp was lovely and really helped to set a nice relaxing atmosphere.

Tanya and James, Glazebrook House Hotel, Wedding Ceremony (May, 2017)

I cannot thank you enough for playing at my daughter's wedding on Friday. Your music was truly lovely, you are so talented and our guests were singing your praises all day, and still are.

Virginia, The Sea Horse, Pentewan Sands, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (February, 2017)

I just wanted to Thank you for playing brilliantly at our Wedding. We have had several comments about how beautifully you played.

Tom and Lisa, Bude Castle, Wedding Ceremony (March, 2017)

I just wanted to say a big thank you for performing at our ceremony from the both of us. Many guests also praised the music during the ceremony.

Adrian, Marchants Manor, Falmouth, Wedding Ceremony (May, 2017)

You played beautifully and I was so glad we picked you. As I walked in the song was gorgeous. Thank you again.

Emma, Crickhowell, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (February, 2017)

Everyone really enjoyed your beautiful music and skilful playing on the harp. Our little flower girls were a delight to watch as they danced around you - thank you so much for letting them have a turn at plucking the strings themselves, they loved it!

Martyn and Valerie, Pentillie Castle, Wedding Reception (August, 2017)

Just wanted to say a big thank you for playing at our wedding. We thought you were amazing and the music was beautiful. So many of our guests have since got in contact with us and mentioned you and your Harp.

Joanna and Dan, Compton Acres, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (August, 2017)

Thanks for playing at our wedding - it helped to make it really special.

Laura, Polhawn Fort, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (September, 2017)

I just wanted to message you to say, yet again, thank you so much for displaying your amazing talent at our wedding recently, I was left stunned by your musical abilities and we received lots of lovely comments on your playing. Letting me pose with your harp was just the icing on the cake and I will send you a photo when we have a copy :)

Amy and Aaron, Reed Hall, Exeter, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (September, 2017)

Just a short note to thank you for making our wedding day so special

we and all of the guests had a wonderful time and your performance helped to achieve this success., Alison and James, (The Rosevine, Porsca)

Lots of people commented on your playing and the atmosphere it created. The children really appreciated the 'lesson' you gave them !

Mike and Anne, The Green, Upton Cross, Wedding Ceremony (November, 2017)

We wanted to say a big thank you for playing at our wedding last Sunday at Elmer's court.

Sarah and Martin, Elmers Court, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (April, 2017)

Thank you for playing your harp so beautifully during our wedding! Thank you so much for learning the Trooper by Iron Maiden too _ it was fantastic + made us both smile!

Holly, Scorrier House, Wedding Day (May, 2017)

I just wanted to thank you again for playing so beautifully at my mum' s birthday party, it was the perfect music for the occasion and your selection of music was just right! Lots of people commented on your playing and were very impressed! Thank you once again, it certainly made the party have a touch of elegance.

Sarah, The Cardinal's Hatt, Birthday Party (August, 2017)

We just wanted to say how delighted we all were with your splendid musical accompaniment at our wedding last week. Everybody commented on how lovely it was. Thank you for coming such a long way in terrible weather to make our day so special.

Myra and Graeme, The Rectory, Crudwell, Wedding Ceremony (August, 2017)

Thank you so much for playing at our wedding, your music was beautiful. Lots of people also commented on how lovely your music was. I can't thank you enough.

Mark and Philippa, Polhawn Fort, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (August, 2017)

All of our guests mentioned how beautifully you played, which we both agree with. We'll be sure to recommend you in the future :)

Dave, Marazion Methodist Church, Wedding Ceremony (May, 2017)

We had lots of excellent feedback from our guests who thoroughly enjoyed your performance. For our part, Jerry and I would not hesitate to book you again for future events. Thanks for helping to make it a very special evening.

Donna and Jerry, Trelissick, Corporate Event (September, 2017)

Just wanted to say a massive thank you for playing such beautiful music at our wedding. Everyone thought your playing was wonderful. A very treasured memory, so thank you so much!

Katie, The Vean, Caerhays Estate, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (June, 2017)

Thank you so much for helping make our day so special it was just what we had hoped for.

Chelsea and Chris, Ocean Kave, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (July, 2017)

I just wanted to say a massive thank you for the beautiful music you played at our wedding ceremony yesterday. It was all anyone could talk about! You were absolutely incredible.

Holly, Fowey Hotel, Wedding Reception (July, 2017)

We would like to say a big thank you for the most amazing harp music you had played for us. We are so grateful that you made our wedding special.

Marina and Daniel, Lulworth Castle, Wedding Ceremony and Dinner (September, 2017)

Just wanted to say thank you for the lovely music at our wedding - it really added to the occasion.

Tom, Polhawn Fort, Wedding Ceremony (March, 2017)

She played at our wedding on 24th June at Porthleven Methodist Chapel. She was incredible. Thank you so much for working with Nicola to put together the song I walked down the aisle to too, it was brilliant. We're very grateful to you for being part of our service. I'm just sorry we didn't get a moment to thank you on the day! I'd recommend her to everyone, she's very very talented x

Rosie, Porthleven Methodist Chapel, Wedding Ceremony (June, 2017)

She played for us at our wedding ceremony in a simple little church in beautiful West Cornwall and then went on to play for our guests to welcome them at our marquee overlooking the sea with views out to the Scilly Isles. The music she played fitted each occasion perfectly and we were delighted with her performance. She learnt 2 songs that we requested and played them whilst we signed the register. We would highly recommend her services and professionalism throughout the whole experience. Thank you!

Pete and Tamsyn, St Bridget's Church, Morvah, Wedding Ceremony and Reception (July, 2017)

I just wanted to say a big thank you from Tim and I for the beautiful harp music. We thought you were brilliant and couldn't have been happier.

Rosie, Old Down Manor, Tockington, Wedding Ceremony (July, 2017)

She played for our wedding ceremony and again during our wedding meal on 29th July. She is very talented and a beautiful harpist, I would highly recommend her to everybody. Thank you again!

Sam, Woolacombe Bay Hotel, Wedding Ceremony and Dinner (July, 2017)

Your music was truly lovely, you are so talented and our guests were singing your praises all day.

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I cannot thank you enough for playing at my daughter's wedding.

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Thank you so much for playing at our wedding. The harp was lovely and really helped to set a nice relaxing atmosphere.

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Thanks for your contribution to my daughter's wedding reception. You played wonderfully

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It made our day so memorable!

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Thank you so much for playing wonderfully at our wedding. You were great when we were planning the day and really helped us with the choice of suitable pieces.

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Having you play before the ceremony relaxed and entertained our guests who were enthralled by the beautiful sound of your harp which created a special atmosphere.

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