2007 New Century
  Harp Competition

    Advisory Committee       

Mary Radspinner is the owner of Melody's Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe, and Afghan Press, a leading publisher and distributor of music for harp.

Gerry Serviente is the Director of the annual Somerset Folk Harp Festival which attracts hundreds of harp players every year for concerts and workshops. She was a winner in the 2006 competition.

Sunita Staneslow was a New Century Competition judge in 2006 and has been arranging harp music for twenty years. She has published eleven books of harp arrangements and teaches at festivals and workshops in Israel, USA, Europe and South Africa.

Harper Tasche has been a judge for the 2006 and 2007 competitions and has published eight books of harp arrangements. He performs and teaches throughout North America and has been commissioned to write music. One of his pieces received its Russian premiere at the Rachmaninov Academy

Sylvia Woods has sold tens of thousands of her best selling harp books since the 1980s. She has been a major figure in the renaissance of the folk harp and distributes harps and harp music through the Sylvia Woods Harp Center.

Competition Administrator - Fred Schlomka
Mr. Schlomka is the founder of the competition and has been involved in different aspects of the harp world for over twenty years. he has published numerous books for his wife, harpist Sunita Staneslow, and was the publisher of the 2000 Harp Almanac.