| Up to 1 hour: £375 |
| Up to 2 hours: £425 |
| Up to 3 hours: £480 |
| More than 3 hours (£50 for every extra hour): from £540 |
| Amplification £50. In case the venue has a lot of stairs/ moving the harp/ playing outdoors extra £50. |
Zita is a talented harpist who has performed widely in all the most prestigious venues in Portugal and broadcast live for the national classical music radio station. Her performances also include recitals in England at Wigmore Hall, the Harp on Wight Festival and at the Proms at St. Jude’s Music Festival and most recently for the Edinburgh International Festival with the RSNO.
Zita is a winner of the Guy Magrath Harp Prize, the Casa da Musica Prize, the Yamaha prize and an International prize winner in the Camac Harp Competition in London and the International Harp Competition in Szeged. She has also won the Young Musicians Awards in Portugal in the category of chamber music. Zita has also been a Finalist at the Patrons Awards, Royal Academy of Music, London.
She is passionate about chamber music and working closely in small ensembles which has led her to establish several groups such as her duo with tenor Kieran White, Portucale Trio with flute and viola, 94Strings Duo with harpist Glain Dafydd and a duo with violinist Beatriz Rola.
She has been invited to play with numerous orchestras including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orquestra Gulbenkian, the Royal Orchestral Society, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Bloomsbury Opera Orchestra, and the Academy Symphony Orchestra, working with prestigious conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Semyon Bychkov, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Pedro Neves, Christopher Warren-Green, Manuel Lopez-Gomez and Eugene Corporon. She has also toured Portugal with the Orquestra XXI with emerging conductor Dinis Sousa and the Estágio Gulbenkian Orquestra under the baton of conductor Joana Carneiro.
Zita graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2015 and with a Master of Arts with Distinction in 2017 under tutelage of Professor Karen Vaughan and Professor Emerita Skaila Kanga, supported with a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Santander Universities UK and the Golden Charitable Trust.
Based in Bedford, Bedfordshire
= areas covered (up to 70 miles)
Classical
Andres
o Aquatintes
o Waltz
Bach
o Air On G String
o Prelude in C Major
o Sheep May Safely Graze
o Stay Thou By Me
Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
Bellini, Casta Diva
Boccherini, Minuet
Chopin
o Etude Opus 10, No. 3
o Raindrop Prelude Opus 28, No. 15
Clarke, Chaconne
Damage, Adagietto
Delibes, Flower Duet (Lakme)
Gounod, Ave Maria
Handel, The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba Hasselmans, Le Rouet
O’Carolan, Concerto
Pachelbel, Canon In D Major
Puccini, O Mio Babbino Caro
Renié
o Au Bord Du Ruisseau
o Grandmere Raconte Une Histoire
Tournier, Quatre Preludes
Vivaldi, Largo (Winter)
Webber
o Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
o Pie Jesu
Movies, Musicals and Games
A Little Night Music, Send In The Clowns
A Star Is Born
o Shallow
o Evergreen
A Summer Place Theme
Aladdin, A Whole New World
Bambi, Love Is A Song
Beaches, The Wind Beneath My Wings
Beauty And The Beast
o Something There
o Be Our Guest
o Tale As Old As Time
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head
Caroussel Of Progress, There’s A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Cats, Memory
Cinderella
o A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
o Cinderella
Cinema Paradiso, Se
Dumbo, Baby Mine
Fiddler On The Roof, Sunrise, Sunset
Final Fantasy VII Main Theme
Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Is All Around (Reg Presley)
Frozen
o Do You Want To Build A Snowman
o Let It Go
Game Of Thrones Main Theme
Ghost, Unchained Melody (also from Unchained)
Gone With The Wind, My Own True Love
Home Alone, Somewhere In My Memory
Ice Castles, Through The Eyes Of Love
Jesus Christ Superstar, I Don’t Know How To Love Him
Jurassic Park Main Theme
La La Land, City of Stars
Lady And The Tramp
o Peace On Earth
o Bella Notte
o He’s A Tramp
o La La Lu
Little Mermaid
o Fathoms Below
o Kiss The Girl
o Part Of Your World
Melody Time, The Lord Is Good To Me
Moana, How Far I’ll Go
Peter Pan
o The Second Star To The Right
o Your Mother And Mine
Pete’s Dragon, Candle On The Water
Pinocchio, When You Wish Upon A Star
Quest For Camelot, The Prayer
Robin Hood, Love
Saturday Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love
Snow White
o I’m Wishing
o Some Day My Prince Will Come
o Whistle While You Work
o With A Smile And A Song
Somewhere In Time Theme
Star Wars, Princess Leia’s Theme (also in Return of the Jedi) Starlight Express
Tammy And The Bachelor,
Tammy Tell Me On A Sunday
The Bodyguard
o I Have Nothing
o I Will Always Love You
The Greatest Showman, This Is Me
The Lion King, Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Elton John) The Phantom Of The Opera
o All I Ask You
o Angel of Music
o Medley
o The Music Of The Night
o The Phantom Of The Opera
o Think Of Me
The Rose Main Theme
The Sound Of Music, My Favourite Things
The Wizard Of Oz, Over The Rainbow
Titanic
o My Heart Will Go On
o Medley
Up, Married Life
Ambience
Kleinstuber
o A New Day
o Summer Solstice
Ludovico Einaudi, Nuvole Bianche
Yiruma, River Flows in You
Pop/Country/Romantic
ABBA
o Mamma Mia
o Dancing Queen
A Great Big World, Say Something (and Christina Aguilera)
Adele, Hello
Al Green, Let’s Stay Together
Andy Williams, Hawaiian Wedding Song (also by Elvis Presley in movie Blue Hawaii) Andrea Bocelli, Con Te Partiro
Andrew Lloyd Webber/Michael Ball, Love Changes Everything Beatles
o Across the Universe
o All My Loving
o All Together Now
o And I Love Her
o Can’t Buy Me Love
o Eight Days a Week o Eleanor Rigby
o For No One
o Get Back
o Girl
o Golden Slumbers
o Good Night
o Here Comes The Sun
o Here, There and Everywhere
o Hey Jude
o I’ll Follow the Sun
o I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
o I’m Looking Through You
o In My Life
o I Should Have Known Better
o I’ve Just Seen a Face
o I Will
o Let It Be
o Michelle
o Mother Nature’s Son
o Norwegian Wood
o Not a Second Time
o Nowhere Man
o Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
o Paperback Writer
o Penny Lane
o Rain
o She’s Leaving Home
o Thank You Girl
o The Long and Winding Road
o This Boy
o We Can Work It Out
o With a Little Help From My Friends o Yellow Submarine
o Yes It Is
o Yesterday
o You Won’t See Me
o You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
Beyoncé, Halo
Bob Dylan, Let It Be Me (also by James Brown and Cher) Bryan Adams, I Do It For You
Bruno Mars, Marry You
Callum Scott, You Are The Reason
Cat Stevens, Morning Has Broken
Celina Dion, My Heart Will Go On
Coldplay, Paradise
Cristina Perri, A Thousand Years (in the Twilight Saga movies) Dean Martin, Volare
Des’ree, I’m Kissing You (in movie Romeo and Juliet)
Don McLean, And I Love You So
Ed Sheeran
o Perfect
o Photograph
Elbow, One Day Like This
Ellie Goulding
o How Long Will I Love You
o Love Me Like You Do
Enya, Once You Had Gold
Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight
Evanescence, Bring Me To Life
Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, Mad World
James Arthur, Say You Won’t Let Go
John Legend, All of Me
Josh Groban
o To Where You Are
o You Raise Me Up
Kenny Rogers, Lady
Labi Siffre/Madness, It Must Be Love
Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven
Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah
Louis Armstrong, What A Wonderful World
Magic, Rude
Minnie Riperton, Lovin’ You
Noel Paul Stookey, The Wedding Song
Petula Clark, My Love
Phil Collins, Against All Odds
Robbie Williams, Nicole Kidman, Something Stupid
Secret Garden, You Raise Me Up (also by Josh Groban and Westlife)
Shania Twain, From This Moment On
Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars
Stone Roses, Waterfall
Taylor Swift, Lover
The Association, Never My Love (also by The Fifth Dimension and Bryan Adams) The Righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody
Van Morrison, Moondance
Jazz
Misty
Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
All the Things You Are
Over the Rainbow
Embraceable You (Gershwin)
Beautiful Love
Etta James, At Last
Traditional
England
o Greensleeves
o Scarborough Fair
Ireland
o Brian Boru’s March
o Danny Boy
New Zealand, Pokarekare Ana
Scotland
o Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
o O’er The Sea To Skye
o Ye’ Banks And Braes O Bonny Doon
Wales
o Across the Water to Llanstephan’s Beach
o David Of The White Rock
o My fanwy
o Sosban Fach
o The Ships of Caernarfon
o Watching the White Wheat
Happy Birthday
Cover (parasol or equivalent to protect from sun) for outdoor events.
I provide amplification.
Are there stairs/staircases? What is access like? Is there free parking available?
Yes, I can provide Spotify service if the booking includes amplification.
I've done various gigs which I am proud of. Perhaps some of the most exciting ones might have been playing with an orchestra for Stormzy at a musical festival and playing for the Andrea Bocelli UK Tour!
I love so many types of music and I can't say I've been influenced by one specific artist as there's so many I admire.
To name a few: Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston.
I started playing for weddings and events even before starting uni!
I love all kinds of events! At every event you get to meet different people and by sharing your music with them you get some interesting different feedback and some fun stories too!
I arrive to the venue 1 hour before I need to start playing.
The performance time can vary, depending on the nature of the event.
usually I would play for 50 minutes at a time. However, if it's a 1h booking, I would play for the full hour.
I am happy to perform outside as long as there's shade, it's a flat level surface and I wouldn't have to place the harp on grass as if there's been rain (even if on previous days), this could mean it might be muddy.
I'm open to requests and happy for clients to choose which songs they want or don't from my list.
Usually they are very positively surprised by the sound of the harp and the ambience it brings to the event.
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