Alice Rose Statham | Butler, Pittsburgh, Farmington, and State College, PA
HARP VIRTUOSO; HARP TEACHER; PIANO TECHNICIAN
Why do I teach and perform?
Music and harps are my life, and always have been. As a lifelong professional musician, I believe it is my duty to share the knowledge I’ve accrued from 20 years of harp playing and learning. Without my teachers, I would have never found my love and passion for sharing music, so I make it my priority to continue what they started. After all, there would be no music nor musical traditions without our teachers!
Similarly, I continue to perform in order to share that knowledge aurally. I know harps aren’t as commonly known about nor heard today as they have been in the past, and as an extensively trained harpist, my playing has the ability to touch others in ways I had never known, so I try to share my music as often as possible.
Looking for a harpist? See below the services I offer, and if you don’t see something you want, send me a message!
Harp Lessons
Rate: # of minutes + $5
First lesson is ALWAYS free! Take a 30-60 minute lesson every week either online or in-person. You will: - Learn a new instrument no matter what age you are; I have worked with students ranging from the ages of 3 to 75 years! - Play any style of music! - Improve your musical skills like sight-reading, phrasing, aural (ear) training, playing in an ensemble, and other musical techniques! - Learn music theory through the harp! - Work on your harp composition skills! - Learn how to gig using the harp; play events like weddings with your own contract, cards, and business plan! Study performance methods and skills!
Solo Harp Performance
Sliding Rate per Hour: $250-$500
Have a harpist perform for your private event; Weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, church services, funerals, or anything else you could want a harpist for! Choose your program, or let me decide from an array of pieces composed and arranged for the harp! Each hour consists of a full hour of music; The harpist may take short breaks as needed.
Harp per Service
Sliding Rate per Service: $250-$350
Need a harp recorded for your new composition? Looking for a harpist to perform with your chamber ensemble or orchestra? Want a harpist to play solo at your service, but don’t need harp for the whole hour? Look no further! Let me record your music from home in my private studio, or have me come to you! Each service is the lump sum of a session, rehearsal, or performance, usually around 2-3 hours.
Coming Up: Harp Quest Summer Live!
Aug 3- Aug 9, 2025
Alice Rose Statham
Alice Rose Statham, 24, has been playing harp for 20 years. She began studying harp at the age of 5 with Ruth Hunter, and two years later began studying with Curtis alum Anne Sullivan until graduating high school in 2018. Alice received numerous musical awards through those years, including PMEA All-State harpist from 2016-2018, and the NaFME All-National harpist in 2017. She has since received two degrees in harp performance at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, studying with Juilliard alum and Pittsburgh Symphony harpist, Gretchen Van Hoesen. Her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Harp Performance was received in May 2022, while her Master of Music in Harp Performance will be received in May 2024.
While at CMU, Alice performed numerous recitals, performing solo and chamber works Her performance experience stretches over a vast range of music styles and ensembles, from performing music written for solo harp in a church, to small chamber groups of two or three in a wedding, to the CMU Contemporary Ensemble, The Who in PPG Paints, or subbing for PSO in Heinz Hall. As a chamber musician, Alice performed frequently with cello, viola, flute, violin, and many other instruments in and around Pittsburgh. The Chalice Duo, with cellist Devin LaMarr, won the Pittsburgh Concert Society’s Majors auditions in 2023, and continue to perform together for special events.
Shortly before graduation, Alice began performing as Nemacolin Resort’s harpist. Her performances feature works by Bach, Marcel Grandjany, Carlos Salzedo, Paul Hindemith, among many others. Alice carefully curates her “set lists”, which include recital and competition repertoire, alongside arrangements of familiar tunes and other pieces in order to achieve the ambience offered in the Chateau.
Piano Services
Looking to have your piano tuned? Alice specializes in tuning, repair, cleaning, and other maintenance of grand and upright pianos.
Alice has been a professional piano technician since 2021. She has studied piano technology under the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s piano technician, Peter Stumpf, since 2020 while working towards her performance degrees at Carnegie Mellon University. As a professional musician herself, Alice not only holds the technical skills required of a piano technician, but also a professionally trained ear for musical aesthetics.
