Anne Denholm is one of Britain’s leading young harpists and in 2015 was appointed Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales. Anne underwent a British musical upbringing, studying at the Purcell School, Newnham College Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London. She received her Master’s from the RAM with distinction, studying under Karen Vaughan and graduating with the Renata Scheffel-Stein Harp Prize and a Regency Award for notable achievement. Whilst at the RAM, she was the first ever harpist to win the historic RAM Club Prize. Anne enjoys giving regular solo recitals across the UK and further afield, from music clubs and societies to international harp festivals. Anne is in demand as an interpreter and performer of new music; she has been recording and premiering new works for solo harp since 2006, and in 2013-14 worked with Sally Beamish on a video project of her work, ‘Awuya’. She is a founding member of award-winning contemporary experimental quartet, The Hermes Experiment, and has enjoyed working with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Spitalfields Music and Mahogany Opera Group.

Anne freelances with orchestras and choirs across England, most recently working with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Northern Ballet Sinfonia and Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. She has recorded CDs with The Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, The Temple Church Choir and The Carice Singers. Anne is also Principal Harpist with Ensemble Cymru, a group championing chamber music throughout Wales, and a solo harpist with Live Music Now.