Anne Kissel Harper, artistic director

Praised by the Boston Globe for her “subtlety and insight,” pianist Anne Kissel Harper is sought after as a chamber musician and song recitalist. Harper is a cofounder and artistic director of the Florestan Recital Project, now ensemble-in-residence at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Anne appears often in recital with her husband, tenor Joe Dan Harper. Together they have premiered works by composers such as Daniel Pinkham and Lior Navok and have performed in Boston’s Jordan Hall, live on Boston’s WGBH, at the American Music Center in Boulder, Colorado, throughout the southern United States, and in Germany. Their performance together in November 2002 with the Florestan Recital Project was acclaimed by Boston’s Bay Windows as the best recital of 2002.

Anne Kissel Harper is well known to Boston audiences as a member of Radius Ensemble, an innovative chamber group performing works from the traditional to the cutting edge. She performed in the 2003 opening season of the contemporary opera festival Opera Unlimited, culminating in a recording of two chamber operas by Daniel Pinkham, recently released on the Arsis label. Anne has been involved in educational outreach performance with such groups as the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Lyric Opera, and Opera Boston.

 In 1994, Ms. Harper was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2003 she returned to Germany with her husband, who was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. Ms. Harper is currently pursuing a doctorate in collaborative piano at the Eastman School of Music where she was recently honored with an award for Excellence in Accompanying. She received her Masters degree in piano at Indiana University and her Bachelor of Music as a Foundation Fellow at the University of Georgia in her hometown of Athens. Her teachers have included Jean Barr, Randall Hodgkinson, Evelyne Brancart, André Marchand, and Richard Zimdars.