Featured Soloist: Ann Hobson-Pilot, harp
April 21 & 23, 2006

Ann Hobson Pilot is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She became principal harp of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1980, having joined the BSO in 1969 as assistant principal harp and principal with the Boston Pops. Before that she was substitute second harp with the Pittsburgh Symphony and principal harp of the Washington National Symphony.

Pilot has had an extensive solo career with orchestras throughout the United States Europe, Haiti, New Zealand, and South Africa. She has several CDs available on Boston Records, and on the Koch International and Denouement labels. In 1999 she traveled to London to record, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Harp Concerto by the young American composer Kevin Kaska, a work that she commissioned.

Ann Hobson Pilot is on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston University, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She is a member of the contemporary music ensemble Collage and has also performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the Marlboro Music Festival, and the Newport Music Festival, to name but a few.

Ms. Pilot plays Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp with vlutist Elizabeth Rowe on April 21 & 23, 2006.

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