- from £160 in North West
- from £160 in Wales
- from £175 in West Midlands
Cheshire based harpist with many years’ experience playing for weddings in reputable hotels and venues throughout North West England and North Wales, and at other private functions.
Oona offers a wide repertoire of music in different styles ranging from classical, to Celtic, to modern, on both the full-sized concert harp and smaller Celtic harp, tailored to create the perfect ambience for the particular special occasion.
Although weddings and restaurant work provide most of Oona’s business, she is an extremely versatile harpist. Recent engagements range from a cocktail party for the Duke of Westminster at the Chester Grosvenor Hotel, a performance for ‘Chester in Concert’ to a recital of Celtic music to a group of alternative therapy practitioners at ‘Tower’ stately home in North Wales, and even background music during a ‘Singles Shopping Evening’ at Safeway supermarket!
Oona qualified with a degree in harp studies and performance from Bangor University in 2004, and as part of the qualification even wrote a thesis on the Irish Harp, meaning that she is now somewhat of an authority on the subject!
Repertoire
- Classical
- Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
- Chaconne (Clarke)
- Bridal March (‘Here Comes the Bride’) (Wagner)
- Ave Maria (Schubert)
- Canon in D (Pachelbel)
- ‘Flower Duet’ from Lakme (Delibes)
- Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie)
- Prelude in C (J. S. Bach)
- Arabesque No. 1 (Debussy)
- Passacaille (Handel)
- Nocturne (Glinka)
- Chanson dans la Nuit (‘Song in the Night’) (Salzedo)
- Prelude No. 3 (Tournier)
- Au Bord du Ruisseau (‘By the side of a Stream’) (Renie)
- To a Wild Rose (McDowell)
- Pavane (Faure)
- ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’ – theme from ‘The Mission’ (Morricone)
- Popular / Easy Listening:
- Cavatina - theme from ‘The Deerhunter’ (Myers)
- My Heart Will Go On -theme from ‘Titanic’ (Horner)
- Unchained Melody - theme from ‘Ghost’ (North/Zaret)
- I Get a Kick out of You -from ‘Anything Goes’ (Porter)
- Hey Jude (Lennon / McCartney)
- And I Love Her (Lennon / McCartney)
- In My Life (Lennon / McCartney)
- Hedwig’s Theme -from ‘Harry Potter’ (Williams)
- Moon River (Mancini)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Arlen)
- Blue Moon (Rodgers / Hart)
- Amazed (Lonestar)
- All the Things You Are (Kern)
- You’ll Never Walk Alone -from ‘Carousel’ (Rogers/Hammerstein)
- All I Ask of You -from ‘Phantom of the Opera’ (Lloyd Webber)
- Think of Me -from ‘Phantom of the Opera’ (Lloyd Webber)
- You’re Still the One (Shania Twain)
- Aniron – Love theme from ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Enya/Ryan)
- Balcony Scene – from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Armstrong/De Vries/Hooper)
- Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
- Irish
- Danny Boy (‘The Derry Air’)
- Give me your Hand
- Lord Galway’s Lamentation (O’Carolan)
- Carolan’s Welcome (O’Carolan)
- Carolan’s Concerto (O’Carolan)
- Walsh’s Hornpipe
- Don Oiche Ud I mBheithil (‘One Night in Bethlehem’)
- The Bard of Armagh
- Down by the Salley Gardens
- Scottish
- My Love is like a Red Red Rose
- Lament for a Blind Harper (Stevenson)
- The Mermaid’s Song
- Och Nan Och ‘smi fo leireadh (‘Sad am I’)
- The Ancient Sports of the Glen
- Cruit gun Cheis Ceall gun Aba (‘A Harp without a Key a Church without an Abbot’) (Kennedy)
- Jewish
- Chorsha ha Eucaliptus (‘On the Jordan’)
- Mi Yitnami Of (‘Who will give me Wings?’)
- English
- Greensleeves
- Scarborough Fair
- Welsh
- Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn (‘Watching the Wheat’)
- Dafydd y Garreg Wen (‘David of the White Rock’)
- Suo Gan (Welsh lullaby- used in the film ‘Empire of the Sun’)
- Llety’r Bugail (‘The Shepherd’s Abode’)
- Y Deryn Pur (‘The Gentle Bird’)
- Merch Megan (‘Megan’s Daughter’)
- Berwyn (Evans)
- Cariad Pur (‘True Love’) (Evans)
- Llydaw (‘Brittany’)
- Ar Lan y Môr (‘By the Sea’)
