Andrea Wittchen Harpist from Bethlehem, PA

Andrea Wittchen will bring the beauty and elegance of harp music to your very special event. A talented performer with a diverse repertoire, Andrea is well-known as a soloist, teacher and free-lance harpist. Her classical training coupled with her on-stage appearances with performers such as Johnny Mathis, Bernadette Peters and Brian Wilson, guarantee that she is as capable of providing classical music for your wedding ceremony as she is playing jazz standards for your cocktail party. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music with a master's degree in harp performance, Andrea teaches at both Lehigh University and Moravian College. She can draw on her many years of experience providing exquisite harp music for a wide range of special occasions to help you identify just the right music to make your event memorable. The harp can also be combined beautifully with the flute. Contact Andrea for information about her flute/harp duo, Elan. Or for something completely different for your next party, ask about The Wittchen Initiative – a unique band comprised of two harps, voice and tuba that's out to change how the world thinks of harp music with performances of everything from rock to pop to rap to jazz. Demo CD available upon request.

• Representative classical pieces:
• Canon in D | Johann Pachelbel
• Prince of Denmark's March | Jeremiah Clarke
• Trumpet Tune | Henry Purcell
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | J. S. Bach
• Ave Maria | J. S. Bach/Charles Gounod
• Ave Maria | Franz Schubert
• Air from Orchestral Suite #3 (on a G String) | J. S. Bach
• Air from the Water Music Suite | G. F. Handel
• First Arabesque | Claude Debussy
• The Girl with the Flaxen Hair | Claude Debussy
• Bist Du Bei Mir | J. S. Bach
• Air with Variations and Rondo Pastorale | W. A. Mozart
• Quatre Preludes | Marcel Tournier
• Representative non-classical:
• Over the Rainbow | Arlen/Harburg
• Send in the Clowns | Stephen Sondheim
• Body and Soul | John Green
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore | Duke Ellington
• Tea for Two | Vincent Youmans
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight? | Elton John
• Beauty and the Beast | Howard Ashman
• Chances Are | Robert Allen
• Misty | Erroll Garner
• The Twelfth of Never | Livingston/Webster
• They Can't Take That Away From Me | George Gershwin
• Summertime | George Gershwin
• La Vie En Rose | Louiguy
• Moon River | Henry Mancini
• Time After Time | Jule Styne
• Ain't Misbehavin' | Waller/Brooks
• Christmas Music examples:
• O Holy Night | Adolphe Adam
• What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) | Traditional
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Johnny Marks
• Ceremony of Carols | Benjamin Britten
• Variations sur un vieux noel | Marcel Samuel-Rousseau
• Six Noels | Marcel Tournier