Teaches:

• Pedal Harp

• Lever Harp

• Celtic Harp

• Folk Harp

Style:

• Classical

• Celtic

• Folk

• Pop

• Country

Instruction Levels:

• Beginner

• Intermediate

• Advanced

Teaching Location:

• Studio at Home

• Student's Home

Yes - 50 Miles

My Reno students perform in "A Celtic Christmas" and "A Celtic Midsummer's Eve. Other opportunities are forming locally in Southern CA.

Prize in Gaelic singing in the Grand National Irish Faire

My students who have become professional harpists include Mitch Landy, past president of the Folk Harp Society. I have taught beginners from ages eight to sixty and beyond. I teach sound harp technique. "Moira's students have perfect hands" --from an international harp conference. If your hands have ever hurt from playing the harp, I can help you. I also teach singing in all styles from pop to folk, even to opera.

Hundreds of weddings and parties; principle performer in half-a-dozen operas, harpist for The Foundation Orchestra and the Carson City Symphony; guest artist for Riverdance-style shows, opened for Golden Bough and Heather Alexander, concerts at the Sierra Arts Festival, Wingfield Park Amphitheater, and many other venues. I am currently focusing on Celtic music, specifically Mary O'Hara style "ceol mor" singing with the harp. My current performance schedule can be found online at www.moirastern.com

I hold a Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Redlands, and I did two years graduate work in voice and composition at the University of Nevada, Reno. I have studied seven foreign languages, and I am an editor pro tem for Mensa. I studied acting, dance and directing, and I have directed Shakespeare plays for the Renaissance Faire, as well as Irish dance shows with the harp. I can coach diction in any language a singer is likely to need, and I can prepare a young performer for a career.

Become the star you were meant to be!

Moira Stern sings and accompanies herself on the pedal harp. She sings in French, Italian, German, Latin, Spanish, Scottish and Irish Gaelic, and numerous native dialects. An award-winning Gaelic singer with a nearly five octave range, she specializes in the folk songs of Britain and Ireland. When she was four, her mother noticed that Moira had perfect pitch, and could sing back any tune on the first hearing, whether an aria or a Gaelic folksong. She began memorizing folksongs at the age of six, and had amassed an enormous repertoire by her teens. From records and books, she taught herself to sing in Gaelic, and developed a passion for the harp. She played the harp in restaurants professionally for ten years. Moira started memorizing operas in all languages at the age of ten, with Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte.” She began formal vocal training at the unusually early age of fourteen. She joined the Renaissance Faire at the age of nine. She sang and played the harp, led hundreds of parades, and directed Shakespeare plays and Irish dance shows. Many singers have studied another instrument, but very few singers accompany themselves on the concert harp; fewer still would even attempt to sing opera while doing so. As a result, Moira’s talents have been in constant demand ever since she became a professional performer.

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