Ceremony and Drinks Reception: £666 Up to 2.5 hours |
Background music: £465 up to 1.5h |
Additional hour: £120 |
Additional half hour: £60 |
Wedding Ceremony or Drinks Reception: £492 up to 1.5h performance |
Pedal Harp extra: £60 |
Tsvetelina is a UK-based harpist, with a wide range of creativity involved in her performances and compositions for the harp. Originally from Bulgaria, she has performed internationally from the United Arab Emirates, through Europe, to the United Kingdom. Tsvetelina specialises in performing arts and has been awarded a First Class Bachelor of Music with Honours degree in Performance (Harp) from the prestigious Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Tsvetelina passion for music began at an early age. Just four years old she was already singing on the biggest stages in Sofia, Bulgaria with the vocal group ‘Iskritsi’ she was part of. Later she began playing the piano and at the age of eleven, she falls in love with the harp, which became her main instrument since and current career path.
Tsvetelina graduated National Music School ‘Lubomir Pipkov’ in 2011 with profile harp and an excellent diploma, where she was studying harp with her first harp teacher Kohar Andonyan. She became there a prize winner of two international competitions – 'Young Virtuosos' in 2009 and 2011. She continued her harp studies with Prof. Malina Hristova in New Bulgarian University and in 2012 Tsvetelina was accepted with a scholarship for undergraduate studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the class of Catherine White. To broaden her horizons as a performing musician she interrupted her studies for a year to work as a harpist for one of the leading entertainment agencies in the UAE - The Fridge Dubai. From 2015 she continued her studies with the newly appointed head of harp Eleanor Turner. Throughout the years at the Conservatoire, Tsvetelina has been financially supported by Bullock Fund, Endowment Fund, and in October 2016 she was awarded a Career Development Bursary from Help Musician UK to participate in Jazz Harp Academy and Dutch Harp Festival in Utrecht. She is currently a member of Musicians’ Union and United Kingdom Harp Association.
From 2006 to 2016 Tsvetelina has participated in the master class of Catrin Finch, Park Stickney, Elisabeth Fontan-Binoche, Skila Kanga, Gabriella Dall’Olio, Lisseta Rossi, Suzanna Klintcharova, Claudia Antonelli, Remy van Kesteren, Rossitza Milevska, Youliana Tochkova, Mared Emlyn, and Robin Ward.
As an orchestra performer, Miss has performed with professional and amateur orchestras in Europe, Middle East, and the United Kingdom some of which are Classic FM Sofia, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Russe Opera House, Birmingham Philharmonic, Halesowen Orchestra, Dubai Chamber Orchestra and others.
Based in Edinburgh, Midlothian
Full Repertoire List
Solo Classical (Pedal Harp)
C. Franck- Panis Angelicus
D. H. Conant – The Nightingale; Nataliana; New Blues; Baroque Flamenco
David Watkins – Fire Dance
Debussy - First Arabesque
Debussy- Clair de lune
Debussy- La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)
E. Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite – Morning Mood; Ase’s Death; Anitra’s Dance
E. Satie - Gymnopedie No 1-3
E. Satie – Le Cygne (The Swan)
F. Mendelssohn – Wedding March
Germaine Tailleferre - Sonata for Harp Solo
Handel – Air from ‘The Water Music’
Handel – Concert in B flat
Handel – Gavotte; Air (Hornpipe)
Handel- Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel- Water Music- Allegro Maestoso
Hasselmans- La Source
J. Massanet- Meditation from ‘Thais’
J. Pachelbel – Canon in D
J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations – Aria
J. S. Bach - Jesus joy of man’s desiring
J. S. Bach- Air on the G string
J. S. Bach- Prelude in C
J. Thomas- Watching the Wheat
Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni, Le Onde; Divenire; Fairytale; Nuvole Bianche; Primavera; Una mattina; Wind Song; Nefeli; Luminous; Indian Yellow; Natural Light; Almost June; Wind song; Temple White
M. Glinka – Nocturne
M. Glinka., arranged by Mily Balakirev – The Lark
Mascagni – Intermezzo
Nino Rota – Sarabanda and Toccata
Olafur Arnalds – Tomorrow’s song
Philip Glass - Opening from Glassworks
R. Wagner – Bridal Chorus: Here comes the Bride
Smetana – The Moldau Theme
Yiruma- Kiss the Rain, River Flows in You
Classical (Lever Harp)
C. Franck- Panis Angelicus
D.H.Conant – The Nightingale; Nataliana; New Blues; Baroque Flamenco
E. Satie – Le Cygne (The Swan)
F. Mendelssohn – Wedding March
Handel- Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel – Gavotte
J. Pachelbel – Canon in D
J. S. Bach - Jesus joy of man’s desiring
J. S. Bach- Air on the G string
Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni, Divenire; Fairytale; Nuvole Bianche; Primavera; Una mattina; Wind Song; Nefeli; Luminous; Indian Yellow; Natural Light; Almost June; Wind song; Temple White
R. Wagner – Bridal Chorus: Here comes the Bride
Yiruma- Kiss the Rain, River Flows in You
Own Compositions
The Golden Bird (for solo lever or pedal harp)
Spring Waltz (for solo lever or pedal harp)
The Place That Exists Only at Midnight (for solo lever or pedal harp)
Unseen Fuji (drums, bass and harp)
Beijing Market (drums, bass, violin and harp)
Bells (duet electric harps)
Home is where the heart is (for solo electric lever or pedal harp)
Alhambresque (violin, bass, trumpet, guitar and harp)
Al Qudra Hijaz (clarinet/ bass clarinet and pedal harp)
Remind me and Return (Electronics and electric harp)
Film Music and Musicals
Disney selection from:
Beauty and the Beast; Aladdin (A Whole New World); The Little Mermaid; Pocahontas; Pinocchio (When you wish upon a star); Cinderella; The Lion King; Tangled;
Forrest Gump - Feather Theme
La La Land - City of Stars; Mia and Sebastian’s Theme
Lord of the Rings – In Dreams, May it Be; Trilogy; Very Old Friend
Mary Poppins – Feed the birds; Chim Chim Cheree
Shrek - Fairytale
The Greatest Showman – A Million Dreams
Up – Married life; Pixar theme
Willy Wonka – Pure Imagination
Popular and Jazz
Alan Walker – Faded
Andrea Bocelli – Time to say goodbye (Vivo per lei)
Berlin – Take my breath away
Bridgerton – Bridgerton Main Title; Diamonds; Dancing on my own; A Grand finish; Love is a choice; When you are alone.
Bruno Mars - Marry You; Just the Way You Are
Bryan Adams - Everything I do, I do it for you; Heaven; It’s Only Love
C.B.Sager and D.Foster – The Prayer
Calum Scott - You Are the Reason
Celine Dion – My heart will go on
Christina Perri – A Thousand Years
Coldplay – A Sky full of Stars; Clocks; Magic; Paradise; Viva la vida; Yellow
Craig Armstrong – Glasgow Love theme from Love Actually
Dario Marianelli – A Game of Badminton from Jane Eyre
Dustin O’Halloran – Opus 23
Ed Sheeran – Photograph; Perfect; Thinking out loud
Ella Fitzgerald – Dream a little dream of me; My funny valentine; Cry me a river
Ella Henderson – I’m Yours
Ellie Goulding – How long will I love you?
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight; Your Song
Elvis Presley – Can’t help falling in love; Love is all around; Love me Tender; Fever
Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over; You’ve Got The Love
Frank Sinatra - My Way; Strangers in the night; That's Life; Send In The Clowns; Fly Me To The Moon
George Gershwin – An American in Paris; Rhapsody in Blue
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
Harold Arlen – Somewhere over the rainbow
Henry Mancini – Moon River
James Horner - Braveheart - For the Love of a Princess
Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
Joe Hisaishi - One Summer's Day from Spirited Away
John Barry – Somewhere in Time – Theme from Somewhere in Time
John Legend – All of Me; Ordinary People; Alright;
John Williams - Schindler's List; Jurassic Park; Star Wars
Labrinth – Beneath Your Beautiful; Suzanne
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper - Shallow
Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Louis Armstrong – What a wonderful world
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together; Without You; Always Be My Baby
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters, Stairway to Heaven
Michael Buble – Everything; Love you anymore; Home
Nat King Cole - When I Fall in Love
Nino Rota – A Time for Us – Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet
Park Stickney – The Dirty Laundry Rag
Passenger - Let Her Go
Pearl Chertok - Jazz Suite
Queen – Love of my life; Somebody to love; Bohemian Rhapsody; Don’t Stop Me Now; I Want To Break Free; Killer Queen
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Stanley Myers – Cavatina from The Deer Hunter
Stephen Sanchez - Until I found you
Steve Wonder - I just called to say I love you; Superstition; Isn’t She Lovely; You Are the Sunshine Of My Love
Sting - Fields of Gold; Every breath you take; Englishman In New York
Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams; Love Story; Lover; Lavender Haze;
The Beatles – All we need is love; Across the Universe; And I love her; Here Comes the Sun; In My Life; Hey Jude; I’ll follow the Sun; Let it be; Yesterday
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Yann Tiersen – Amelie; Le monde d’Amelie (own harp arrangement of themes of Amelie)
Traditional (UK)
Auld Lang Syne
Danny Boy
Flower of Scotland
Greensleeves
Highland Cathedral
Loch Lomond
Logan Water
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose
Mairi's Wedding
The Mingulay Boat Song
Skye Boat Song
The Water is wide
Ye Banks and Braes
Caoineadh Luimnigh
Leaving Stoer
Lady Ramsay
An t-Iarla Diùrach
Ros Fhiadhaich nam Beann
Dance Tunes:
Charlotte and Craig’s
Carnie’s Canter
Ruari Dubh
Two St. Kilda Song and Dance Tunes
Strathearn, Itchy Fingers
The Heights of Cassino, The Rizla
The Tongadale Reel
The Salvation.
Recent Compositions:
Maggie West’s Waltz
Louise’s Livvy
Swerving for Bunnies
Kate Martin’s Waltz
Traditional Bulgarian
‘Devoiko, Mori Hubava’ (Beautiful girl)
‘Hubava si Moya Goro’ (You are beautiful, my forest)
‘Katerino Mome’ (Katerina girl)
‘Nazad Nazad Mome Kalino’ (Go Back, Go Back, Kalina Girl)
‘Oblache le bialo’ (Little Cloud of White)
‘Vzemi ogun, zapali me’ (Take fire and lighten me)
Pazardjishka Kopanitsa
Pravo Horo
Rachenitsa
Christian Music
Amazing Grace
Abide with me
Because he lives
Bless The Lord
How Great Is Our Lord
In Christ Alone
Mighty To Save
The Prayer
You Raise me Up
Seasonal
Away In A Manger
Calypso Carol
Coventry Carol
Deck The Halls
Ding Dong Merrily On High
Fairytale Of New York
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
In The Bleak Mid-Winter
Jingle Bells
Joy To The World
Let It Snow
Little Donkey
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Holy Night
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Once In Royal David's City
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
See Amid The Winter's Snow
Silent Night
Step Into Christmas
The First Nowell
The Little Drummer Boy
Walking In The Air
We Three Kings
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
What Child Is This (Greensleeves)
Piano stool if possible, power socket for the electric harp.
I could provide amplification if required
Entrance to the venue and if it's wheeling accessible
N/A
Performing at the Royal Albert Hall concert has been a highlight of my career I will never forget!
Ludovio Einaudi, Olafur Arnalds, Hania Rani, Joep Beving, Lavinia Meijer are just a few amazing musicians that have influenced my style and way of making music!
I started performing from the first year I began learning the harp and haven't stopped ever since, which has been over 20 years now. I have performed internationally, from Dubai through many countries in Europe to the UK, where I am currently based.
I love performing at all kinds of events but wedding ceremonies have a special place in my heart, as I love preparing personalized song choices that make this special moment even more unique and touching to everyone in the place.
Setup time: 1h
I am happy to perform outside, but we ask for shade, a flat level surface and a power supply close to the performance area.
Yes, I love making your event as unique as possible! I would learn up to 5 specific song requests before the event. The clients are welcome to pick a set list from our repertoire or let me choose the music for them.
Previous customers would describe my performance as touching, professional and stylish.
Ritz Carlton Dubai, National Musem of Scotland, The Balmoral Hotel, University of Edinburgh, Royal Yacht Britannia, Luxury Scottish Weddings, Rolex, Laingsjewellers, among others.
Ritz Carlton Dubai, National Museum of Scotland, The Balmoral Hotel, Mansfield Traquair, University of Edinburgh, Royal Yacht Britannia, Assembly Rooms, Royal College of Physicians, Blair Castle, Dundas Castle, among others.