Daniella Kistemaker

Daniella Kistemaker is a first-year MA student in music theory. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Harp Performance (2023) from Wilfrid Laurier University where she studied under Lori Gemmell. While there, she won the Ken Murray Concerto Competition in 2022 and performed the first movement of the Concertino for Harp and Orchestra by Germaine Tailleferre with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in April 2023. Daniella’s academic interests include the analysis of twentieth-century post-tonal music and the influences of Latin American dance forms and rhythms on contemporary classical repertoire. She also teaches harp in her own studio, sometimes substitutes in various churches as an organist, and is the Artistic Director of the Canadian Musicians Co-operative.