Sharron Griffiths
Overview
- Solo harpist
- Vast repertoire from classical to pop to folk
- Optional flute and/or violin available
Price Range
Prices range from £250 to £1000
About
Sharron started playing the harp at the age of ten in Wales and continued onwards to study at the Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity College of Music. Following her studies, Sharron has pursued a successful and varied career having recently relocated to Glasgow from London.
She plays regularly with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera and the Northern Sinfonia. She has also played with many other leading British Orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, RTE Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Northern Ballet Company and has also held harp positions in many West End & Touring Musicals. During her career, Sharron has played at many prestigious concert halls around the world including the Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms, toured extensively as far afield as Japan & Los Angeles, and worked with many famous musicians including Pavarotti & Sir Simon Rattle. Sharron has recorded many film and pop sessions at the famous Abbey Road Studio, Air Studio and Angel Studios, London.
Sharron is in great demand as both soloist and chamber musician, she is a member of the Solway flute, viola and harp Trio with Richard Blake, Principal Flute, Scottish Opera and Jane Atkins, Principal Viola, Scottish Chamber Orchestra. She also plays regularly as a flute & harp duo with several different flautists, in recitals and for background music and has also played with many established ensembles, including the Paragon Ensemble, Scottish Voices. Most recently Sharron has been playing Scottish opera's education project "a little bit of..." a 20 minute version of various famous operas featuring harpist, cellist, storyteller, singer and theatre box with has seen her playing in all sorts of different venues across Scotland including Ikea, museums, hospitals, pubs, coffee shops, warehouses, book festivals, farms, shopping centres, car parks and the project made its debut at T in the Park and the Belladrum festival.
She has almost 20 years experience as a function and wedding harpist, during her time in London, holding posts as harpist in residence at the Landmark Hotel, Trafalgar Hilton and the London Wetlands Centre, and playing regularly for events at The Hilton Park Lane, Waldorf Hotel, Harrods, Victoria and Albert Museum, Madam Tussauds, The Tower of London, Hampton Court, Earls Court, Warwick Castle and at the top of the BT Tower. Since re-locating to Scotland she has played at numerous venues including The Balmoral Hotel, Glasgow Grand Central Hotel, Doune Castle, Airth Castle and Marr Hall.
Sharron is also a busy harp teacher teaching 2nd study harp at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama and has many private students, including music students from Edinburgh & Glasgow University’s and most recently was the harp tutor for the National Children’s Orchestra of Scotland. Whilst in London, she had many private students and held the posts of harp teacher at many schools and college’s including The Godolphin School, Latymer Saturday Music Centre, Haileybury College, and the Milton Keynes Music Service.
Where are they based?
Based in Glasgow but will travel all over Scotland
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Sample Set List
Traditional wedding ceremony music
Non-religious
Wedding march - Mendelssohn
Bridal march [Here comes the Bride] - Wagner
Water music suite - Handel
Air on a G string - J.S Bach
Two Trumpet tunes & air - Purcell
Prelude in C - J.S Bach
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Prelude in C minor - J.S Bach
Largo from concerto in D minor - Vivaldi
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Trumpet Voluntary - Clark
Arioso - J.S Bach
Finale from Royal Fireworks - Handel
Religious
Alleluia - Mozart
Ave verum corpus - Mozart
Ave Maria - Schubert
Ave Maria - Bach / Gounod
St Anthony Chorale - Haydn
Ode to Joy - Beethoven
Jesu, joy - J.S Bach
Panis Angelicus - Frank
Pie Jesu - Faure
Zadok the Priest - Handel
Largo from Xeres - Handel
Sheep may safely graze - J.S Bach
Where`er you walk - Handel
Voluntary in G - Stanley
Classic & Jazz song
Aint misbehvain
A nightingale sang in Berkley Square
Alfe
And I love you so
Annie's song
As time goes by
A whitier shade of pale
Bidin` my time
Bridge over troubled water
Blue moon
But not for me
Brown eyed girl
Can't help lovin` dat man
Coming around again
Crazy
Cry me a rivers
Dream a little dream of me
Dream
Don't get around much
Days of wine & roses
Ev`ry time we say goodbye
Embraceable you
Everybody Loves somebody
Evergreen
Every breath you take
Fascinating rhythm
Feelings
Fools rush in
Fly me to the moon
Get here
Green green, grass of home
Have I told you lately
He ain’t heavy, he’s my Brother
How deep is your love
I only have eyes for you
I’ll be seeing you
I can see clearly now
I get a kick out of you
I've got you under my skin
If
Killing me softly
Lady in red
La vie en rose
Let there be love
Love story
Lover Man
Love is a many splendoured Lullaby of birdland
Many rivers to cross
Misty
Moonlight serenade
My funny valentine
My heart belongs to me
My way
Night & day
On the wings of love
Over the rainbow
People
Raining in my heart
Scarborough Fair
Smoke gets in your eyes
Secret Love
Smile
Softly, as in a morning sunrise
Softly as I leave you
Somebody loves me
So in Love
Strangers in the night
Starry, starry night
Summertime
S’wonderful
Take my breath away
Tell him
The first time ever I saw your face
The Lady sings the blues
The man I love
The look of love
The power of love
The wind beneath my wings
The way you look tonight
The way we were
True Love
Try a little tenderness:
Unchained melody
Unforgettable
Until its time for you to go
We've only just begun
What a wonderful world
We have all the time in the world
When Sunny gets blues
When a man loves a woman
What the World needs now is love
When I fall in love
The Beatles:
Let it be
In my life
Hey Jude
Here,there & everywhere
Eleanor Rigby
Long & winding road
Yesterday
If I fell
John Lennon:
Woman
Imagine
Elvis:
Love me Tender
Always on my mind
Cant help falling in love
80s,90s,00s & 10s SONGS
A groovey kind of love - Phil Collins
A million love songs - Gary Barlow
Baby can I hold you - Tracy Chapman
Better together - Jack Johnson
Come away with me - Nora Jones
Don’t know why - Nora Jones
Fields of gold - Sting
Greatest Day - Take That
Hero - Enruique Ingleasias
Hero - Mariah Carey
I don’t want to miss a thing - Aerosmith
Promise me - Beverly Craven
Never had a dream come true - S Club 7
Rule the World - Take That
She will be loved - Maroon 5
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
The closest thing to crazy - Katie Meluah
This years love - David Gray
When you say nothing at all - Ronan Keating
Your Beautiful - James Blunt
Celine Dion - Falling into you
Because you loved me
Elton John - Your song
Candle in the wind
Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
Eric Clapton - Wonderful tonight
Lionel Richie - Three times a lady
Say you, say me
Endless love
Hello
Robbie Williams - Angels
She’s the one
Westlife - You raise me up
Flying without wings
Whitney Houston - I will always love you
Tonight I celebrate my love
Shaniah Twain - You’re still the one
From this moment on
Starman David Bowie
You are not alone Michael Jackson
Ironic Alanis Morisette
Kiss from a rose Seal
Truly madly deeply Savage garden
If tomorrow never comes Ronan Keating
Can’t get you out of my head Kylie
Don’t speak Garbage
Stairway to heaven Led zeppelin
Chasing Cars Snow Patrol
Amazed Lone Star
Always Bon Jovi
Wherever you will go the Calling
Everybody hurts REM
Fallin’ Alecia Keys
I believe I can fly R Kelly
Beautiful Christina Aguleria
Let there be love Oasis
Who wants to live forever Queen
Coldplay: Fix you /In my place /Trouble
Nora Jones: Don’t know why / Come away with me /Sunrise
U2: I still haven’t found / Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
Tom Waits: Ol’ 55 / Alice
Metallicca: The Unforgiven / Nothing else matters
Bob Dylan: Tangled in Blue / Shelter from the storm/ Hard rain’s gonna fall
Adele: Someone like you / Make me feel your love
Dido: Life for rent/White flag
Madonna: Crazy for you / Frozen /Live to tell
TV & Film music
Tara's theme - Gone with the wind
Somewhere out there - An American tale
Bright eyes - Watership Down
She's like the wind - Dirty Dancing
Love Theme[kissing you] - Romeo and Juliet
Cavatina - The Deerhunter
Up where we belong - Officer & a Gentleman
Lara’s Theme - Doctor Zhivago
Can you feel the love tonight - The Lion King
It had to be you - When Harry met Sally
My heart will go on - Titanic
Speak softly love - The Godfather
Everything I do, I do for you - Robin Hood
She - Notting hill
Out of reach - Gabrielle/ Bridget Jones Diary
Going Home - Local hero
Theme from Jurrasic park
Love is all around - Four weddings & a funeral
All by myself - Bridget Jones Diary
Moon River - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Come what may - Moulin Rouge
One day I’ll fly away - Moulin Rouge
Glasgow love theme - Love actually
Theme from Braveheart
Disney Music
Beauty & the beast
A whole new world
Whistle while you work I
’ve got no strings
Little April shower
When you wish upon a star
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
You can fly
He’s a tramp
Chim chim cher-ee
Let’s go fly a kite
You can fly, you can fly
Winnie the pohh
Under the sea
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius
The bare nescessities
Ev’ry body wants to be a cat
The age of not believing
Part of your world
Be my guest
Siamese cat song
MUSICALS
A little night music - Send in the Clown
Annie - Tomorrow
Chess - I know him so well
Singing in the Rain - Singing in the rain
Fidler on the roof - Sunrise, Sunset
Blood Brothers - Tell me it’s not true
Les Miserables:
I dreamed a dream
On my own
Drink with me
A heart full of love
Bui doi
Bring him home
Castle on a cloud
The last night of the world
My Fair Lady
On the street where you live
Get me to the church on time
Oliver
As long as he needs me
Where is love?
I’d do anything
Mack & Mabel
I promise you a happy ending
I wont send roses
West Side Story
One hand, one heart
Maria
Somewhere
Andrew Lloyd Webber Selection
Aspects of love - Love changes everything
Cats - Memory
Jesus Christ Superstar - I don’t know how to love him
Requiem - Pie Jesu
Joseph
Close every door
Any dream will do
Evita
You must love me
Don’t cry for me Argentina
Phantom of the opera
The music of the night
All I ask of you
Think of me
Whistle down the wind
No matter what
Whistle down the wind
Song & Dance
Unexpected song
Tell me on a sunday
Rodgers & Hammerstein Selection
South Pacific:
Younger than springtime
A wonderful Guy
Some enchanted eve
The King & I
Hello, young lovers
Shall we dance?
Getting to know you
The Sound of music
Climb ev`ry mountain
Edelweiss
My favourite things
Carousel
If I loved you
You'll never walk alone
Classical Music
Adagio - Albinoni
Air from Rinaldo - Handel
Barcarolle - Offenbach
Adagio ,concerto de aranjuez - Rodrigo
Liebestraum no. 3 - Liszt
Love unspoken - Lehar
Morning - Grieg
Meditation from Thais - Massanet
Nocturne - Borodin
Plasir d`amour - Martini
To a wild rose - MacDowell
Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni
Nocturne - Borodin
Theme New World Symphony - Dvorak
Spanish Romance - Traditioanl
Dance of the blessed spirits - Gluck
Beethoven
Pathetique sonata
Fur Elise
Moonlight sonata
Bizet
Entr’acte
Toreador’s song
Chopin
Tristesse study
Fantasie impromptu
Prelude in A &C minor
Claude Debussy
First arabesque
Clair de lune
La fille aux chevaux de lin
Delibes
Flower Duet
Waltz from Coppelia
Elgar
Nimrod
Chanson de matin
Land of hope and glory
Faure
Sicillienne
Berceuse
Pavane
Pie Jesu
Cantique de Jean Racine
Mendelssohn
On wings of song
For the wings of a dove
Mozart
Magic flute [theme]
Clarinet concerto
Cradle song
Puccini
Musetta`s song
O my beloved father
Nessum Dorma
On with the Motley
Che Gelida
One fine day
Saint Saens
The swan
Softly awakes my heart
Satie
Gymnopedie’s
Gnosiennes
Schubert
Cradle song
Lullaby
Theme from the octet
Verdi
La Donna e mobile
Chorus of the Hebrew slaves
Vivaldi
Autumn
Spring [from The Four Seasons]
Scottish Folk
Bonnie bell
Bonnie Dundee
The Blue bells of Scotland
The boatie row
Dainty Davie
Charlie is my darling
Flow gently sweet Afton
Green grow the rashes
Loch tay boat song
Duncan gray
Land O’ the leal
Leezie Lindsay
Loch Lomond
Scotland the brave
The lea-rig
Skye boats song
The keel row
Bonnie wee thing
Kelvin Grove
My heart’s in Highlands
The Rowan tree
The white cockade
The flowers O’ the forest
A rosebud by my early walk
Ye banks and braes
Will ye no come back
My love is like a red, red rose
Welsh
Ar lan y mor
All through the night
We’ll keep a welcome
Cader Idris
Calon Lan
Cwm Rhondda
David of the white rock
Men of Harlech
The rising of the Lark
Myfanwy
TheAsh grove
Land of my Fathers
Irish
A bunch of Thyme
After all these years
An old Irish Lady
Back in old Ireland
Danny Boy
Galway Bay
How can you buy Killarney
Patsy Fagan
Irish eyes
My Irish rose
Irish eyes are smiling
The minstrel Boy
The fields of Athenry
Molly Malone
The dear little shamrock
The last rose of Summer
The Rose of Tralee
Mountains of Mourne
The Town I loved so well
I’ll take you home again Kathleen
Believe me, if all those endearing young Charms
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