Rebecca Blair – Clarinet, Celtic Harp
Rebecca's career as a musician and teacher has been both rich and varied. Her musical studies began in the classical realm with the clarinet, culminating in 1996 when she graduated with a master’s degree in performance and musicology from the University of Victoria.
Since then, she has focused her interest on Celtic music and improvisation on the harp, attending many Celtic harp workshops all over North America and Ireland, where she studied with such notables as Kim Robertson and Sharlene Wallace.
Rebecca's approach to playing and teaching the harp draws on her classical background and combines it with her passion for Celtic music. Her teaching philosophy focuses on balancing disciplined technique with improvisation and creativity.
Rebecca has offered workshops through Early Music Vancouver and the De Danaan School of Irish Dance, and she holds regular harp workshops at Place des Arts in Coquitlam which attracts people from all over the province. She is active in the Vancouver folk music scene, performing around the Lower Mainland as both a soloist and with groups such as the Maenads and Triskelion.
Rebecca
works as a freelance musician, playing at many special events; 
her
audiences have included the President of Ireland and the International
Bar Association. She has also applied her skills as a studio musician
and has been featured on CD's such as the Maenads and Orra Chan by
Teresa Doyle. Rebecca keeps a busy schedule of teaching and performing,
as well as studying Irish dance.
Phone # 604 874-1733
and E-Mail : "rlblair@telus.net" <rlblair@telus.net>
Visit her website which in "Under Construction" at www.dancingharp.com
Or at the School:
Contact Prussian Music at 604-736-3036 3607 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V6R 2B8
Fall: Teaching Tuesday
Minimum age: 10 (unless students have at least two years of piano background and can read treble and bass clef)
Triskellion:
Rebecca Blair ,Michelle Carlisle, and Rosie Carver take you on a mystical trip through the Celtic Isles -
Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, with jigs, reels, laments and
ballads. To add a special touch for other occasions, our trio also
offers light classical music. We perform for concerts as well as
weddings, corporate events, parties, and other special occasions. Be it
on stage or in the background, our music is enchanting. Like
the three-sided Celtic knot called the “Triskellion”, this group
features three ladies; classic and elegant.http://www.michellecarlisle.ca/performance/triskellion.html
The Maenads
Another of her groups; "The Maenads" with Linda Bull, and Norah Rendell , who studied, obtaining an MA in Irish Traditional Music at The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. But she is in Ireland at the moment. "Ireland’s Munster Express wrote that Norah & Brian's music “brings sunlight into your heart and set your feet a dancing.”"
