 |  | The Airs of Wales [play hifi lofi] [license] [download] |
 | | The Once and Future Harp [play hifi lofi] [license] [download] |
A versatile recording artist, she can be heard on over thirty albums and
soundtracks broadly ranging from medieval, baroque, orchestral, and contemporary
music to Celtic music and film scores, on major labels including PolyGram,
Deutche Harmonia Mundi, Koch International Classics, Nonesuch, Erato, Dorian,
Gourd Music, and others. Her first solo album, The Airs of Wales, brought her
recognition and
A leading scholar in the field of historical harps, Dr. Fulton, a Fulbright
scholar, is a contributing scholar for the new edition of the New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians and has written a chapter for A Performers
Guide to Medieval Music (IU Press, 2000). She was awarded the Burton E. Adams
Prize for Academic Research for her doctoral thesis on the history of the triple
harp. She earned a BS degree in pedal harp, and an MM and DM in early music/historical
harp from the School of Music of Indiana University, Bloomington. During her
graduate work she was a devoted student of Thomas Binkley, and served as
Associate Instructor of Historical Harp. In 1987 she received a Fulbright award
for research and performance in Lisbon, Portugal and while there served as
Cheryl Ann Fulton is the producer and director, as well as a featured performer
along with her Celtic harp group The White Horse Harpers, Jerry O'Sullivan, Shay
Black and Liz Carol on the 2001 recording Christmas in an Irish Castle. A
founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz, she has worked with many professional
ensembles including Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Les Idees Heureuses, American Bach
Soloists, The Boston Camerata, and Chanticleer. With her friend Diana Stork, she
performs in the duo Twin Harps. She founded and directs the medieval harp choir
Angelorum.
Cheryl Ann lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and loves riding her beautiful
Arabian horse Fazon, and enjoying time with her two dogs.
Recognized worldwide as a leading pioneer in the field of historical harps,
Cheryl Ann Fulton has had internationally successful performing, recording,
teaching and scholarly research career since 1986. She is America's premier
performer of historical harps, and one of the few harpists in the world to play
triple harp, medieval harp and contemporary lever harps. Her solo performance
for the 2002 World Harp Congress in Geneva affirmed her rank as one of the world's
leading harpists. Known for her exceptional artistry, in the last decade she has
become a renowned and highly sought after teacher of her masterful and
expressive technique. Her solo recital performed at the John F. Kennedy Center
featured five historical harps on one program of which the Washington Post said,
"Fulton drew from all of them a serene and delicate sound.... remarkable
instruments which Fulton played with total skill and reverent affection."
acclaim
as a "genuine virtuosa of her instrument." A composer as well as performer, her
original compositions from her second solo album, The Once & Future Harp, have
been featured on National Public Radio.
principal
harpist for Portugal's finest orchestra, the Orchestre Gulbenkian. She is the
founding President of the Historical Harp Society which celebrated it's 20th
anniversary in August 2003.
