Kate Jones - Harpist

After completing a Performers' Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with David Watkins, she went to study on the Postgraduate Studies course at the Royal Academy of Music with Skaila Kanga where she was awarded the Renata Scheffel-Stein Prize for Harp.

Her recent professional work has included performances with the Royal Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestras, the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House Orchestra, English Touring Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra, Garsington Opera Orchestra, the Opera Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Portugal, London City Ballet, Moscow City Ballet and the Northern Ballet Company.

She has worked extensively in London's West End Theatres: The Producers, My Fair Lady, South Pacific (Royal National Theatre), The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company), Napoleon, the King and I, Notre Dame de Paris and Oliver! She is currently a deputy on the Phantom of the Opera.

Recital performances have included Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp in the Barbican Hall with the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra, Debussy's Dance Sacree et Dance Profane with the Minehead Festival Orchestra and a World Premier performance of Adam Gorb's Harps of Gold, for harp quintet, at the Wigmore Hall. During her last Postgraduate year at the Royal Academy of Music she was the only British musician to successfully audition for a place in the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, with whom she toured Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy and Denmark, working with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Marin Alsop and the late Sir George Solti.

Now living back in North Wales she is available for weddings and functions throughout the region.

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Kate Jones - Harpist Repertoire

Pop, Jazz & Show Tunes

  • Andrew Lloyd Weber (selection from the shows):
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • Cats
  • Jesus Christ Super Star
  • Evita
  • Tell me on a Sunday
  • Requiem
  • Cole Porter I get a kick out of you
  • Disney Tunes
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Bella Note (Lady and the Tramp)
  • Someone's waiting for you (The Rescuers)
  • A Whole New World (Aladdin)
  • Baby Mine (Dumbo)
  • Tunes from the Lion King
  • When You Wish Upon a Star
  • Somewhere Out There
  • Elvis Presley Love Me Tender
  • Elton John Can You Feel the Love Tonight
  • Enya Various Songs
  • Garner Misty
  • Gershwin
  • Summertime
  • Embraceable You
  • Bidin' my Time
  • But Not for Me
  • Hamlisch The Way We Were
  • Henley & Silbar Wind Beneath my Wings
  • Irving Gordon Unforgettable
  • James Horner My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
  • Jerome Kern
  • The Way You Look Tonight
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  • Kert Weill September Song
  • Lehar Waltz Love Unspoken (The Merry Widow)
  • Lionel Richie Endless Love
  • Loewe I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)
  • Maurice Jarre Lara's theme from Dr. Zhivago
  • Mancini Moon River
  • McCartney
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Yesterday
  • Nino Rota Love Theme from The Godfather
  • Porter Everytime We Say Goodbye
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein
  • My Funny Valentine
  • Selections from
  • The Sound of Music
  • The King and I
  • Carousel
  • Sondheim Send in the Clowns
  • Stanley Myers Cavatina (the Deer Hunter)
  • Sting Selection from Fields of Gold
  • Victor Young When I Fall in Love
  • Folk and Traditional Tunes
  • American Spiritual
  • Swing Low Sweet Chariot
  • Deep River

English

  • Drink to Me Only
  • English Country Garden
  • Greensleeves

Irish

  • Cockles and Mussels
  • The Londonderry Air (Danny boy)
  • The Minstrel Boy
  • The Salley Gardens
  • She Moved Through The Fair
  • I Know Where I'm Going

Mexican

  • Blue Dove (La Paloma Azul)
  • Las Mananitas

Scottish

  • Auld Lang Syne
  • The Bluebells Of Scotland
  • Charlie is my Darling
  • Skye BoatSsong

Welsh

  • All Through The Night
  • The Ash Grove
  • David Of The White Rock
  • Watching The Wheat
  • Penillion Melodies
  • Royal Dream

Opera

  • Delibes Flower Duet (Lakme)
  • Donizetti Romanza (The Elixir Of Love)
  • Humperdinck Evening Prayer (Hansel And Gretel)
  • Gounod Arietta (Romeo And Juliet)
  • Mozart
  • La Ci Darem (Don Giovanni)
  • Non Piu Andrai (Marriage Of Figaro)
  • Mascagni Intermezzo From "Cavalleria Rusticana"
  • Offenbach Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffann)
  • Puccini
  • Oh My Beloved Father (Gianni Schicchi)
  • One Fine Day (Madame Butterfly)
  • When Stars Are Brightly Shinning (Tosca)
  • Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen

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