Beyond the Horizon: New Music for Lever Harp Lauren Scott

• 1Adventures for Lever Harp: Elegy04:46
• 2Adventures for Lever Harp: Free Running (Book Two)02:00
• 3Adventures for Lever Harp: Blue Moon Rising (Book Two)03:27
• 4Adventures for Lever Harp: First Flight of Spring (Book One)02:38
• 5For Mattia08:02
• 6New Shoots – Old Roots: Away for a While04:13
• 7Adventures for Lever Harp: Gypsy Dance (Book Two)03:39
• 8In a Landscape08:38
• 9The Yellow Cake Review: Farewell To Stromness04:09
• 10Beyond the Horizon04:24
• 11Celestial Spirals04:17
• 12Across the Universe (arr. lever harp Lauren Scott)04:21
• 13Adventures for Lever Harp: Crepuscule (Book Two)06:12
• Total Runtime01:00:46

Info for Beyond the Horizon: New Music for Lever Harp

Lauren Scott's debut solo album, Beyond the Horizon, showcases the kaleidoscopic colours of her traditional lever harp via works by 20th century composers John Cage, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lennon & McCartney and others, alongside her own atmospheric pieces.

Lauren Scott's passion for the lever harp inspires her interpretations of atmospheric works by 20th century composers ranging from John Cage and Peter Maxwell Davies to Lennon & McCartney, as well as her own ambient compositions. Beyond the Horizon, Lauren's debut solo album, casts a twilight glow on the unique qualities of the traditional lever harp – also known as the Celtic harp – and the kaleidoscopic colours it produces, sonorities that Lauren enhances with extended techniques including note bending and percussive effects in her own music. The result is a beautiful and distinctive album with broad appeal.

Born in Australia, UK-based Lauren performs with many of the country's leading orchestras, in West End shows, on commercial recordings, and for radio and TV. Active in the international harp community, Lauren avidly fosters the next generation of harp players, and has had her music published and performed world-wide.

"her music is open, expressive and filmic, and a real hit with audiences. Highly recommended." –(Harp magazine)

Lauren Scott, harp

Lauren Scott
fell in love with the harp aged four after seeing a historic lever harp in a museum in Australia. After two years of pestering her parents she began harp lessons aged six when her family moved back to England.

Lauren studied harp at Trinity College of Music and has a busy portfolio musical career. As an established and in demand freelance player, she plays guest principal harp with many of the UK’s leading orchestras and chamber groups as well as pursuing her own projects. Her harp playing has led her to performing in venues across the UK from the Royal Albert Hall to West End shows to commercial recordings to live broadcasts on radio and TV.

Lauren Scott has recently embarked on a creative compositional journey having only started writing music in 2018. Since then she has published two volumes of music for lever harp, her music has received praise from harpists and harp societies worldwide and she has had four of her pieces set on the Trinity grade syllabus. In March 2020 her debut solo CD, Beyond the Horizon which features eight of her compositions alongside works by Peter Maxwell Davies and John Cage will be released on the Avie Records label. She will also be performing a concert of her solo harp music at the World Harp Congress in Cardiff in July before premiering her new harp duo piece in Perth, Australia in August.

Over the last 20 years Lauren has worked as guest principal harp with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, ​City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ensemble Cymru and is the regular harpist with the Picture House Orchestra, Northern Chamber Orchestra and Psappha Contemporary Music Group.​

Lauren has been actively involved in the UK harp community, acting as Chairman of the United Kingdom Harp Association for 5 years. Keen to support the next generation of musicians, Lauren founded a not-for-profit organization in 2010 that with the help of volunteers hosts eight concerts per season, combining professional musicians with local young musicians whilst raising money for local charities. Along with an annual Youth Music competition, over 500 young musicians have either performed or taken part in workshops with the concert series thus far.

A lifelong passion for the lever harp has led her to composing new enjoyable and accessible music that is influenced by her diverse experiences in the music industry; from regularly performing in symphonic and chamber orchestras, to working in pop sessions and collaborating with composers in the contemporary classical sphere.

Lauren Scott plays on Salvi, Camac and Starfish harps.

This album contains no booklet.