Philharmonic ♦   Chamber Orchestra    ♦   Symphony   ♦  Young Artists  ♦  Chamber Strings  ♦ Harp Ensemble

Monika Vasey, MCYO Harp Ensemble Director, is a freelance professional harpist in the Baltimore-Washington region and is in demand as a performer and teacher. She has served on the faculties of Howard County Public Schools, the Settlement Music School, and was recently appointed as Early Childhood and Elementary Music Instructor at the Levine School of Music. A graduate of the prestigious Peabody Institute of Music at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, she holds a Masters degree in Music Education as well as two Bachelors degrees in Harp Performance and Music Education. Ms. Vasey enjoys performing as a soloist and orchestral harpist, and doing freelance as well as studio work. She is an advocate of new music compositions for the harp and has played with numerous orchestral associations, most recently the Delaware Symphony, Salisbury Symphony, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Columbia Orchestra, Susquehanna Symphony, and Lansdowne Symphony Orchestras.

Through a collaboration with the area harp teachers, harpists are recommended and auditioned for each of the four MCYO Orchestras.  Our MCYO Harp Ensemble is in its 9th season.  This included harpists from each orchestra, as well as additional harpists who were not yet placed into our orchestras.  This initiative will reach more young harpists, and develop their ensemble skills.

Listen to our Harp Ensemble