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How To Harp Podcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 55

Welcome to the How To Harp podcast, the show that celebrates your harp journey. Join harpist, tutor and founder of How To Harp Heather Downie for weekly episodes full of expert tips, inspiring interviews, real harpist stories, and relaxed chats with How To Harp co-tutor Angela. Whether you’re just starting out or growing your skills, this is your space to learn, laugh, and love your harp even more.

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Ep 52: Where the Music Comes From with Nadia Birkenstock

Episode 52

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 • Duration 43:09

Nadia's best-known tune sat in a drawer for eleven months before she published it, because she wasn't sure it was good enough. It's since been heard well over a million times, and the German harpist and singer joins Heather to talk about how she works, and what she listens for.

Much of it goes back to her training in Lieder, where the piano part is written to illustrate the words. She's spent a career carrying that idea across to the harp, treating it as a duo partner with a voice of its own rather than a set of arpeggios underneath the melody.

In this episode:

- Falling for the Celtic harp at sixteen, after hearing the duo Sìleas live

- Why she went back and took classical lessons after teaching herself

- Starting every song arrangement from scratch, hunting for patterns she hasn't used before

- Building "Sagittaire" around a short film, and writing music to picture

- Collecting light, wind and acoustic spaces as raw material

- Putting her first video online when most computers couldn't play it, and the invitation that arrived two years later

- Whether the tradition can be stretched too far, and why she doesn't think there's a line

- Her concert and harp and voice workshop inside the membership

- One piece of advice for adult learners, and how to know a teacher is right for you

Host:

Heather Downie - Harpist, Principal Lever Harp Tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Founder of How To Harp

Guest:

Nadia Birkenstock - Harpist, Singer, Composer, and How To Harp Guest Tutor

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https://www.HowToHarp.com (membership, courses, retreats)

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