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Margot Krimmel wins two places in the 2007 New Century Harp Competition!

Margot's composition, Planxty Earl Grey won the Best-for-Beginners Prize and her arrangement of Shenandoah won one of 10 merit prizes.

The New Century Harp Competition is an international contest designed to encourage lever harp players and composers to create new harp arrangements of existing music, and to compose new music for harp. Each year there is slightly different criteria in order to challenge the creativity and musicality of the entrants.

The 66 competition entries in 2007 were from six countries. They demonstrated a very high standard which made the judges job quite challenging. Judges Harper Tashe (USA), Sharlene Wallace (Canada), and Monika Stadler (Austria) worked hard to ensure that the very best entries were awarded the prizes.

Grand Prize winner: Lisa Boggess, USA - Miami Dawn (original composition)
$1000 total value - $300 from Somerset Harp Festival, $200 from the Big Sky Harp Festival, and a $500 gift certificate from Camac Harps.

Best-For-Beginners Prize: Margot Krimmel, USA - Planxty Earl Grey (original composition)
$650 gift certificate from Harp World Inc. & Salvi Harps

Merit Prizes: $220 each in gift certificates from the sponsors:

Kathleen Clark, USA - The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle (arrangement)
Ulpia Erdos, Australia - Tears of Joy (original composition)
Margot Krimmel, USA - Shenandoah (arrangement)
Galen Noland, Canada - A Celtic Ode to Joy (arrangement)
Casey Pinckney, USA - Mack the Knife (arrangement)
Myriam Reid, Canada - Sally Gardens (arrangement)
John Sheridan, USA - An Eos Hweg (Sweet Nightingale) (arrangement)
John Sheridan, USA - Delyow Sevi (Strawberry Leaves) (arrangement)

All the winning pieces will be included in the annual competition book published by Afghan Press, in 2008. The book is available from Melody Music.

The 2007 competition was sponsored by: Big Sky Folk Harp Festival, Camac Harps, Dusty Strings, Melody Music Center/Afghan Press, Thormahlen Harps, Somerset Harp Festival, Salvi / Harp World Inc., Stoney End Harps, Sylvia Woods Harp Center, Sunita Staneslow, Virginia Harp Center.

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