Next America’s Art Form concert set for Wednesday
The Hot Springs Jazz Society and the Garland County Library will present “The Harp Today and Throughout Music History” at 6 p.m. Wednesday as part of the monthly America’s Art Form Concert series.
Reservations are not required. A covered nonalcoholic beverage may be brought into the auditorium.
Alisa Coffey, principal harpist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, will provide insight into the workings of the harp, its tuning, its construction, how it is played, and how the harp has been used in the past and its use in music today, according to the library’s website.
Coffey has been featured as soloist with the orchestra several times, and will again be featured in the upcoming ASO season.
In addition to her work with the ASO, she performs regularly with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, the Baton Rouge Symphony, and the Shreveport Symphony, the website said.
Meredith Maddox Hicks, principal second violinist with Arkansas Symphony, and longtime member of the Quapaw String Quartet, will join Coffey in the program.
She joined the ASO in 2002 after completing her master’s degree in
Music Performance and her doctorate coursework at Florida State University.
Hicks was an exchange student in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Music and was the 2016-17 winner of the Belmont Encore Award for outstanding alumni in classical music, a news release said.
“Support for the Hot Springs Jazz Society is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts,” the release said.