Join us at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC for the Gather NYC concert series featuring Ocean Music Action founder, harpist Megan Conley, and friends. This Mother’s Day concert will feature music honoring Mother Earth. Details and tickets available here.
Program:
Jessie Montgomery, orch. Michi Wiancko Rhapsody No. 2 featuring Colin Jacobsen, violin (World Premiere)
Gabriel Kahane Heirloom featuring Jeffrey Kahane, piano (NY Premiere)
Gabriel Kahane Where are the Arms featuring Gabriel Kahane, vocals & Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Anna Clyne Shorthand featuring Karen Ouzounian, cello (NY Premiere)
W.A. Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D major, "Paris"
More info and tickets available here.
Ocean Music Action’s ‘Everlasting’ program is inspired by the interconnectedness of all living things, and the evolution of this relationship over time. A quartet of musicians (Megan Conley, harp; Shawn Conley, bass; Christina Courtin, violin/vocals; and Colin Jacobsen, violin) as well as dancer Maile Okamura, perform music that honors our forests, oceans, and the creatures that depend on them.
More info and tickets available here.
This concert is paired with a volunteer beach cleanup through Surfrider San Diego on Sat June 1 from 9-11am. Sign up here.
Megan joins Festival Napa Valley as the Professor of Harp. More info and application here:
https://festivalnapavalley.org/
About this concert:
William Parker - bass
Peter Shaindlin - trumpet
Jonny Lam - guitar
Megan Conley - harp
Shawn Conley - bass
Abe Lagrimas, Jr. - drums
Free, family-friendly evening of live music at Capitol Modern. Come visit and enjoy performances in the Sculpture Garden. Admission is free and all ages are welcome. Full schedule below, details here.
5:00pm - 9:00pm | Art & Flea Market
5:30pm - 6:30pm | Forest Flutters with Shawn Conley, Megan Conley, and Jonny Lam | POD
6:30pm - 7:30pm | Ke‘olu | Sculpture Garden
8:00pm - 9:00pm | Starr Kalahiki | Sculpture Garden
Join Ocean Music Action for a children’s program at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center. Megan will perform music from the Hawaiian Islands, and join dancer Alesha Yamal for a hula lesson! Children will also make their own paper flower leis to take home. More info and tickets available here:
https://houstonarboretum.org/event/harp-hula-music-dance-from-hawaii/
Program to include Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and a new work by Du Yun for Pipa and Orchestra featuring Wu Man. More info and tickets available here.
Megan joins the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble for Peace on Earth, with two performances of Britten’s stunning Ceremony of Carols as well as other holiday favorites. More info and tickets available here.
Join us for the Yogarden Holiday Market on Sunday Dec 10th from 10am-2pm. Yogarden is an organic farm in beautiful Waimanalo. The holiday market will feature their locally grown, organic produce, vegan food and baked goods, and music by harpist Megan Conley.
See the Yogarden website for more info.
Megan joins the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble for Peace on Earth, with two performances of Britten’s stunning Ceremony of Carols as well as other holiday favorites. More info and tickets available here.
Performance at the 2nd Annual Kāhuli Festival at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Two sets, from 3-3:30pm and 4:30-5pm, including a performance of Takuma Itoh’s ‘Kāhuli: Voice of the Forest.’ Learn more about kāhuli (Hawaiian tree snails) from experts, cultural practitioners, and enjoy music, games, a film screening and more at Hawaii’s museum. More info and tickets available here.
Program to include Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro. More info here.
Free concert in beautiful Central Park NYC! More info here.
Come to Kapiolani Park on Sunday Feb 19th from 3-9pm for the Sustainable Ocean Alliance Deep Sea Summit. This event is FREE, kid-friendly, and open to the public.
Learn about initiatives to stop Deep Seabed Mining before it does irreparable damage to our ocean ecosystems.
I will be performing a program of ocean-inspired harp music from 7:30-8:15pm as part of Ocean Music Action.
In February, love is in the air with Donizetti’s charming comedy, The Elixir of Love, sung in a witty English translation. This heartwarming comedy hits the stage just in time for Valentine’s Day when a worker falls in love with a beautiful farm owner. HOT’s production is perfectly set in present-day Hawai‘i in a quaint town outside a sugar cane farm. The fantastic ensemble cast includes soprano Natalie Image, tenor Andrew Stenson, and baritone Efrain Solis with director Maria Todaro, all making their HOT debuts. Benjamin Makino returns to conduct following the recent, triumphant run of Madame Butterfly.
More info and tickets available here.
In February, love is in the air with Donizetti’s charming comedy, The Elixir of Love, sung in a witty English translation. This heartwarming comedy hits the stage just in time for Valentine’s Day when a worker falls in love with a beautiful farm owner. HOT’s production is perfectly set in present-day Hawai‘i in a quaint town outside a sugar cane farm. The fantastic ensemble cast includes soprano Natalie Image, tenor Andrew Stenson, and baritone Efrain Solis with director Maria Todaro, all making their HOT debuts. Benjamin Makino returns to conduct following the recent, triumphant run of Madame Butterfly.
More info and tickets available here.
Ocean Music Action presents a collaboration between Houston Symphony harpist Megan Conley, members of The Knights orchestra, composition students from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and National Geographic photographer David Liittschwager. Listeners will be immersed in the sounds and sights of the ocean, with Liittschwager’s stunning underwater photography on display in high-definition projection.
Megan performs alongside fellow Knights musicians Colin Jacobsen (violin/viola), Alex Sopp (flute), and Shawn Conley (bass), along with dancer Maile Okamura. This concert is paired with a volunteer Buffalo Bayou cleanup the following morning, Sat. April 23.
Megan performs Toru Takemitsu’s concerto Toward The Sea for alto flute, harp, and string orchestra, with the Houston Symphony, joined by Houston Symphony flutist Matthew Roitstein. This work was commissioned for the Save the Whales campaign, which helped lead to a global ban on commercial whaling. There is still work to be done to protect whales and other marine life. Learn more about the campaign here.
Performing with the Knights at the Ravinia Festival on Aug 17 at 7:30pm.
Performing with the Knights at Tanglewood Music Festival in Ozawa Hall on July 13th.
Performing with the Knights at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, NYC, on July 11th at 7:30pm.
Performing Sarah Kirkland Snider's 'Unremembered' with the Knights orchestra and Shara Nova, DM Stith, and Padma Newsome as part of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN.
Music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Gerald Barry at Lincoln Center's Hearst Plaza, with tenor Peter Tantsits and French horn player Rachel Drehmann. More info here.
