Ellen Gibling - Harp
Ellen Gibling is a harpist based in K’jipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia, who plays classical, Irish traditional, and improvised music on lever and pedal harps. She studied classical music at McGill University, with additional training from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Recently, she spent a year focused on Irish traditional music, studying at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Over the past decade, Ellen has enjoyed working in a wide variety of contexts, performing with pop artists, traditional bands, chamber groups, orchestras, film projects, dancers, and theatre productions on Canada’s east coast. She plays in Harpaflöjt, a trio specializing in Scandinavian traditional music and original compositions and arrangements. She is also a member of the traditional music ensembles Ragged Robin and Síle, free-improvised quartet New Hermitage, and the classical flute and harp duo Conundrum. Ellen teaches at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, and has also taught at Acadia University, the University of Limerick, and the Canadian International Summer Harp Institute. Her solo harp album, “The Bend in the Light”, is to be released in the fall of 2021.