ArtistInfo

Nancy Allen

hrp, *1954 US, New York City
Conductor of Classical
A.k.a. Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen (born 1954) is a prominent harpist from the United States.The daughter of a public school music teacher in the Carmel, New York district, she won numerous international competitions starting at a young age. In 1973 she won first prize at the Fifth International Harp Competition in Israel, one of the most prestigious international harp competitions in the world. Since 1999 she has been the Principal Harpist of the New York Philharmonic, playing under music director and conductor Lorin Maazel, and in her 20-year teaching career has trained many successful students as well as serving concurrently as head of the harp departments at the Juilliard School (where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees) and Aspen Music Festival and School. She was formerly the head of the harp

Instruments

• Harp
• Strings

Genres

• Classical
• Soundtrack
• Jazz

Plays With