Heather currently plays an Aziliz acoustic Camac harp with Alliance strings
and a 36-string Electro-harp.

Heather has always had a love of Scottish music, and has been singing for as long as she can remember. Her passion grew working with the late Martyn Bennett, after which she decided that a career in traditional music would be her goal.

At the age of 15 she began playing the Scottish harp and was immediately accepted into Splore, the traditional music course at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Having graduated in 2008 from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a first class honors BA Scottish music, Heather went on to complete a postgraduate diploma in Scottish music performance.

Heather has travelled extensively in Scotland and her music has taken her as far afield as Germany, Demark, Latvia and New York. Heather also has an interest in composition and Scottish history, folklore and the roots of the songs and tunes in her repertoire and enjoys teaching, both for large groups and residential weeks like Tinto Summer School, and private pupils.

Heather’s playing has been described as ‘vibrant and thoughtful in her interpretation of traditional standards’ and audiences have commented on the purity of her voice;

‘Her playing and singing merge together creating a magical experience for the listener’.

‘…you accessed the deepest part of the emotion in the music. Faultless.’

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