About
Ellen Gibling is a harpist based in K'jipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. She holds a BMus in classical harp performance from McGill University, and an MA in Irish traditional music performance from the University of Limerick.
Her recent solo harp album The Bend in the Light (2022) has been described as “bold and beautiful” (Celtic Life International) and “enchanting” (Folk London). The album has garnered Ellen a nomination for the Canadian Folk Music Awards' Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year, as well as a nomination for Music Nova Scotia's Traditional/Roots Album of the Year.
Ellen is a member of New Hermitage, an ambient improvising quartet of harp, cello, saxophone and electric guitar which released its most recent album, Unearth, in 2020. Ellen is also a member of the trio Swift Return and the orchestral pop ensemble The Heavy Blinkers, as well as performing regularly with folk duo The Bombadils.
As a classical harpist, Ellen has performed with Symphony Nova Scotia and the World Youth Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales, and has toured with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
Ellen teaches at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts where she gives private harp lessons to all ages in addition to co-leading a weekly group class for fiddles and harps with Anna Wedlock. She has also taught at Acadia University, the University of Limerick, and the Canadian International Summer Harp Institute.
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