Ruby Maplin - Harpist

As a soloist, this London based wedding harpist has performed in the Royal Northern Spotlight Series for talented young musicians and gave a performance of the concerto by Saint-Saens, "Morceau de Concert" with the Maltings Sinfonia.

She regularly gives recitals around the UK, recent performances include the Benslow Music Trust, Bushey Music and Arts Festival, the Women's Institute and for the Camphill Trust at Delrow House. Her recitals include a wide variety of music and interesting facts about the harp and often plays for the Masonic Trust, Ladies Groups and Homes for the elderly.

In 2006, she performed on an award winning recording with the renowned Euphonium player Steven Mead. At the Eastman School of Music, and was invited to perform with various faculty members as part of the "Virtuosi Recitals." She is also a keen player of contemporary works and was a member of the RNCM New Ensemble and Eastman School of Music's Ossia.

As an orchestral harpist, she has performed with numerous orchestras in the UK and in the US. Recently she was on tour with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Here she was a soloist and performed the recently commissioned concerto for harp and wind orchestra by H. Badings.In 2002 she performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester as part of the "Young Artist's Access Scheme." Also in Manchester, she performed with the Manchester Concert Orchestra, the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band and the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2007, she was presented with a scholarship to attend the Brevard Music Centre in North Carolina where she performed with the Brevard Music Centre Faculty Orchestra.
 
More recently she has performed as an orchestral musician with St John's Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
In September 2007, she won an audition which resulted in performing and recording with the world-famous Canadian Brass in a collaborative project with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. She then went to perform in the Spazio Music Festival in Cagliari, Sardinia as a part of the Eastman Broadband Ensemble in performances of a new opera.


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Ruby Maplin - Harpist Repertoire

Pop and Jazz
  • A Whole New World - from Disney's Aladdin
  • Ain't Misbehavin' - Waller
  • All My Loving - Lennon/McCartney
  • American in Paris/Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin
  • Angel of Music - Lloyd Webber
  • Beautiful Dreamer - Foster
  • Because - Lennon/McCartney
  • Blue Moon - Rodgers
  • Bring Me Sunshine  -  Morecambe and Wise
  • Cockles and Mussels - Anon
  • Close To You - Carpenters
  • Days of Wine and Roses - Mancini
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Ellington
  • Dream - Mercer
  • Edelweiss - Rodgers
  • Embraceable You - Gershwin
  • Everybody Loves Somebody - Lane
  • Fool on the Hill - Lennon/McCartmey
  • Fools Rush In - Bloom
  • For Once in My Life  ~ Wonder
  • For Your Eyes Only - Conti
  • Good Night - Lennon/McCartney
  • I Just Called to Say I Love You - Wonder
  • If I Fell - Lennon/McCartney
  • La Vie En Rose - Louiguy
  • Let It Be - Lennon/McCartney
  • Lets Call the Whole Thing Off - Gershwin
  • Love is Here to Stay - Gershwin
  • Maple Leaf Rag - Joplin
  • Memory - Lloyd Webber
  • Michelle - Lennon/McCartney
  • Misty - Garner
  • Music of the Night - Lloyd Webber
  • My Favourite Things - Rodgers
  • My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
  • Norwegian Wood - Lennon/McCartney
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Arlen
  • Pineapple Rag - Joplin
  • 'S Wonderful - Gershwin
  • She's the One - Williams
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -
  • Softly, as in a morning sunrise - Romberg
  • Some Enchanted Evening - Rodgers
  • Somebody Loves Me - Gershwin
  • Someone to Watch Over Me - Gershwin
  • Songbird - Eva Cassidy
  • Take My Breath Away - Moroder
  • Tea For Two - Youmans
  • Tenderly - Gross
  • The Boy Next Door - Blane
  • The Long and Winding Road - Lennon/McCartney
  • The Shadow of Your Smile - Mandel
  • The Way You Look Tonight - Kern
  • Think of Me - Lloyd Webber
  • Time After Time - Styne
  • Yesterday - Lennon/McCartney
  • You Raise Me Up - Westlife
  • You're Gonna Hear From Me - Previn
  • Zip a dee doo dah - Armstrong

Popular Classics

  • Air on the G String - Bach
  • Arabesque - Debussy
  • Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin - Wagner
  • Canon in D - Pachebel
  • Clair de Lune - Debussy
  • Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orpheus - Gluck
  • Dove Sono - Mozart
  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - J.S Bach
  • Musette - J.S Bach
  • O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
  • Ode To Joy - Beethoven
  • Pavane - Faure
  • Porgi Amor - Mozart
  • Prelude in C - J.S Bach
  • Sonata - Parry
  • Siciliana - Mascagni
  • Song to the Evening Star from Tannhauser - Wagner
  • The Little Fountain - Pratt
  • The Swan - Saint-saens
  • Trois Petites Pieces - Hasslemans
  • Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
  • Watching the Wheat  - Thomas
  • Wedding March from A Midsummer Nights Dream -
  • Mendelssohn

Popular and Jazz Selection

  • All I Ask of You - Lloyd Webber
  • And I Love Her - Lennon/McCartney
  • But Not For Me - Gershwin
  • Danny Boy - Anon
  • I Got Rhythm - Gershwin

Classical and Contemporary Selection

  • Awuya - Beamish
  • Courante, Pavane and Bransles - Francisque
  • Night Dances - Aspinall
  • Prelude 10 - Maguire 

 

Standard Classical

  • Arabesque - Bowen
  • Aria in Classic Style - Grandjany
  • Au Matin - Tournier
  • Berceuse Russe - Grandjany
  • Chaccone - Handel
  • Concert Fantasy on Lara's "Granada" - Salzedo
  • Courante, Pavane and Bransles - Grandjany/Weidensaul
  • Fantasie - Saint-saens
  • Impromptu - Faure
  • Jazz Band - Tournier
  • Lolita la Danseuse - Tournier
  • Malaguena - Lecuona
  • Prelude - Prokofiev
  • Prelude and Toccata - Handel
  • Rhapsodie - Grandjany
  • Spanish Dance No.1 - de Falla
  • Sonata - C.P.E Bach
  • Sonata - Dussek
  • Sonatine - Tournier
  • Torre Bermeja - Albeniz

Contemporary Works

  • Awuya - Beamish
  • Crepescule - Alwyn
  • Divertissements a l'espagnole - Caplet
  • Divertissements a la francais - Caplet
  • Elegie - Andres
  • Fantasy on a Red Wheel Barrow - Bledsoe
  • Night Dances - Aspinall
  • Prelude 10 - Maguire
  • Sonate - Hindemith
  • Sonatina - Natra
  • Suite Galactique - Lizotte
  • Three Magical Places - Bourland
  • Vier Nachtszenen - Baker

Ensemble, Concerti and Chamber Works

  • Carrilon, Recitatif, Masque - Henze
  • Ceremony of Carols - Britten
  • Concerto for Harp - Handel
  • Concerto for Flute and Harp - Mozart
  • Concerto for Harp and Wind Orchestra - Badings
  • Danses sacree et profane - Debussy
  • Elegiac Trio - Bax
  • Fantaisie - Saint-saens
  • Introduction and Allegro - Ravel
  • Hommage a Bellini - Pasculli
  • Morceau de Concert - Saint-saens
  • Refrain - Donatoni
  • Scottish Fantasy - Bruch
  • Serenade - Roussel
  • Sextet Mystico - Villa-lobos
  • Sonate for Flute, Harp and Viola - Debussy
  • Trio pour violon, violoncello et harpe - Ibert

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