Angela Schwarzkopf

Principal Harp, DMA

UNO award winning harpist Angela Schwarzkopf concertizes throughout North America as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. She is the newly appointed principal harp of London Symphonia and frequently performs with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. The first harpist to become Doctor of Musical Arts in harp performance in Canada, she now teaches at the University of Toronto and the Glenn Gould School. Outside of her university teaching, Angela maintains a thriving studio of private students in Toronto and is a harp examiner with the Royal Conservatory College of Examiners. Angela is President and Director at Large for the American Harp Society and a contributor to the international publications Harp Column and the American Harp Journal and serves on the editorial board of the latter. As an advocate for new music, she has worked on commissioning projects with many prominent composers. Her album, detach, comprised of all new Canadian music, won the 2020 JUNO award for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber. Her newest album with The Topaz Duo, was named Record of the Week on In Concert with Paolo Pietropaolo.

2020 JUNO Winner
President and Director at Large, American Harp Society
Principal harp, London Symphonia
Director of Development and Faculty, Young Artist's Harp Seminar
Editorial Board, American Harp Journal
Sessional Faculty at the University of Toronto, the Glenn Gould School, and McMaster University