One solution embraced by many harpists I know, myself included, is to have the dubious honor of presiding over unsightly and ever growing stacks of  music. In fact, despite how tidy the rest of my home is, I was so far gone as to make a conscious effort to become one of these music junkies. Around the time I was finishing up my master's degree, I realized that my personal collection of harp music was lacking in some areas, so I adopted a simple system. Every time I needed to buy a new string or a specific piece for myself, I started ordering an extra piece of music or two. To say that I have compensated by now would be an understatement. My collection just keeps growing, seemingly without any effort on my part, and I'm consumed instead by trying to keep it all organized. At the moment, everything is divided up by instrumentation, then difficulty level, and then alphabetized by the composer's last name. Well, more or less, that's the system. Except that I'm out of drawer space, so some of my more recently acquired music is just in a stack, and then there's current music I'm working on, or about to be working on, which doesn't really make sense to put away, and... you get the idea.

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Regardless (or perhaps because?) of how much music is crammed in my studio, I love repertoire questions. I love discovering new repertoire, I love putting together interesting programs, and I love it when I pick a piece that is a perfect fit for a student. Although I could provide a comprehensive list of all of the music that I've amassed, I thought it would be more helpful to highlight some standout pieces. I certainly don't play or assign all of my collection equally, but instead have pieces that I come back to again and again. Below you'll find some suggestions for a few pieces of music from each category. These are pieces that I think are written well from a compositional standpoint, suit the harp well, and help develop a student's technique.

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I've organized these by the same system that I (aspire to) use with my physical music, difficulty level, and then composer's last name.  Pieces that are underlined are linked to a corresponding video, most from my Inspirational Videos for Young Harpists YouTube series. You can find more of these videos and a lot more on my YouTube Channel. Feel free to subscribe!