About

“Christina Brier and Kathryn Sloat of Lilac 94 aren’t your
grandmother’s harpists.” -Star News. Lilac 94 is a harp duo dedicated
to performing new and previously undiscovered music and exploring
creative ways of using the harp. Christina and Kate have played their
music in all kinds of venues, from schools and retirement homes to
Eastman School of Music’s Hatch Hall and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
This summer the duo presented a program of twenty-first century
works for two harps at the American Harp Society's Summer Institute in
Logan, Utah. They also recently participated in Fifth House Ensemble’s
Fresh Inc Festival, where they performed in Wisconsin and Chicago and
gave two world premieres. Christina and Kate began playing together in
their first semester as masters students at the Eastman School of
Music, and formed Lilac 94 just before their graduation in May 2013.
They chose their name to reflect their origins in Rochester, New York –
the lilac is the flower of the city, and they have a total of 94
strings between their two harps.

Music

Bernard Andres: Dyades
Bernard Andres: Le Jardin des Paons
Bernard Andres: Parvis
Bret Bohman: Foglifter
Bret Bohman: Swirl
Nick Conn: Reflections
Wei Dai: Alchemy
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Karl Jenkins: Cadenza from Over the Stone
Rebecca Larkin: The Juniper Tree
Naomi Lewis: The Taff Trail
Caroline Lizotte: Raga
Mithoon (arr. Christina Brier): Tum hi ho
Daniel Morel: KC Blue
Maurice Ravel: Ma mere l'oye
Sufjan Stevens (Mikaela Davis): Chicago
Marcel Tournier: Quatre Preludes

This list is not exhaustive. Lilac 94 plays mostly contemporary harp duos, as well as older works and transcriptions.

Videos

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