Emily Clarkson, a Brownwood native who has won numerous awards for playing harp, will perform in a public concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lyric Theater.
Vocal guest Jennifer Reeves will join her for several songs.
At her first piano lesson at the age of 3, Emily Clarkson discovered music. After years of asking to play the harp, that dream also became a reality and has become a lifelong passion. Clarkson received her undergraduate degree from Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, with a major in Harp Performance and minors in Piano and German. She received her Master of Music degree in Harp Performance from the University of Michigan in December 2015.
She was a finalist in the Anne Adams Awards national harp competition in 2014, and in 2013 she was a winner of the Ball State Undergraduate Concerto Competition, where she performed the first movement of the Gliere Concerto for Harp with the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 she won first prize in the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Undergraduate Harp Competition, and in 2011 she won first prize in the Jan Pennington National Harp Scholarship Competition.Other awards and honors include the Kathrin Fouse Award and the Salzedo Prize by the American Harp Society and being named a Young Master by the Texas Commission on the Arts. She has performed as a member of the University of Michigan University Symphony Orchestra and University Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ball State Symphony Orchestra, Harp Ensemble, and Wind Ensemble and the Texas All State Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets are $5 each, and are available in advance online at www.brownwoodlyrictheatre.com.
