Featured Soloist: Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, harp

Barbara Poeschl-Edrich grew up in Germany, between Munich and Salzburg. She has performed in recitals throughout Germany, Austria, England, Japan, and the United States (where she moved to with her husband in 2000). Her performance experience includes solo, chamber and orchestra concerts, she premiered works by H. Regner and E. Shin.

Barbara graduated from the University Mozarteum in Salzburg with a Concert Diploma and a Master of Arts, having studied both 'Harp Performance' and 'Instrumental Education'. Continuing in the Master's program in London, she received a 'distinction' for performance in 2000. In 2003 she performed at the Tanglewood Music Center. Barbara is currently completing her Doctor of Musical Arts in Harp Performance with Ann Hobson Pilot at Boston University.

Since moving to Boston she played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Classical Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Lexington Sinfonietta, New Bedford Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, and the Mozart Society at Harvard. Also, she is freelancing with 'The Gilded Harps' in the New England area.

Being a member of the American Historical Harp Society, Barbara performs on a Bavarian single-action harp, a small Irish harp, and an Italian Baroque triple harp in addition to her grand Lyon & Healy. Her academic work ranges from the Welsh Triple Harp to Bavarian harp music. She also did extensive research on the Irish nineteenth-century harp maker John Egan. Barbara attended master classes with distinguished musicians such as Alice Giles, Luciano Berio, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Awards made to her include the Carl-Orff medal (Munich, 1995), a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship (London, 1998), and the UK Harp Association Award (2000).

Poeschl-Edrich played Handel's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra on January 16 and 18, 2004

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