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Harpist Emily Belvedere is an award winning musician and avid performer based out of Toronto, Ontario. Having been praised for her “crystalline technique” and her “ease in merging lyrical and dissonant sounds” MusicWeb International’s Worldwide Concert and Opera Reviews) Emily has had the opportunity to perform on stages throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. An enthusiastic competitor, Miss Belvedere has won a number of bursaries and scholarships including claiming third prize at the American Harp Society’s 18th National Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. More recently, Emily won the 2013 McGill Classical Concerto Competition as well as the prize for best performance of a Canadian work in the 2013 OSM Standard Life Competition in Montreal. She has been featured as a soloist with the McGill Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Stratford Symphony in Ontario in 2017.
Emily is a member and co founder of two award- winning chamber groups with whom she has travelled across North America as well as overseas to complete residencies and perform on tour. Her harp and flute ensemble “ Duo Kalysta” released their debut album “Origins” in the fall of 2019.
A native of Toronto, Emily has given many solo and chamber performances throughout the region, in venues such as the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She has been invited to give recitals with different festivals and organizations such as the Mooredale Concert Series in Toronto, the Kincardine Summer Music Festival and the Christ Church Beaurepaire Concert Series in Quebec.
Miss Belvedere holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music and a Masters Degree in Harp Performance from McGIll University.