Angela Schwarzkopf
Instructor, Harp
Education
- DMA, University of Toronto
- MMus, University of Toronto
- BMus, University of Ottawa
Biography
JUNO award winning harpist Angela Schwarzkopf concertizes throughout North America as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. She is guest principal harpist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and principal harp of London Symphonia. The first harpist to become Doctor of Musical Arts in harp performance in Canada, she now teaches at the University of Toronto, the Glenn Gould School, and the University of Western Ontario. Outside of her university teaching, Angela maintains a thriving studio of private students in Toronto and is a harp examiner with the Royal Conservatory College of Examiners. Angela is Chairman of the Board and past President for the American Harp Society. As an advocate for new music, she has worked on commissioning projects with many prominent composers. Her album, detach, comprised of all new Canadian music, won the 2020 JUNO award for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber. Her newest album with The Topaz Duo, was named Record of the Week on In Concert with Paolo Pietropaolo and one of CBC’s top 22 albums of 2022.