Annette Bjorling Harpist Harpist from Chicago, IL
Will travel up to 100 miles
- Avg 5.0 | 44 Reviews
- 87 Verified Bookings
- Member Since 2008
- 5 Awards & Badges
- Virtual Services Offered
- Accepts Online Payment
- Starting at $300 per event
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Annette Bjorling is an experienced and versatile harpist, striving to make your special occasion even more special. Annette's repertoire for solo harp or ensembles includes many tunes from Broadway and Pop, as well as Jazz standards. Classical music reaches from Renaissance and Baroque masters to French impressionists, and modern compositions. Included are wedding favorites like "Here comes the Bride", Pachelbel's "Canon in D" or Schubert's and Bach/Gounod's "Ave Maria". One of Annette's specialties is klezmer music, and various styles of East European and Mediterranean ethnic music. She also plays Celtic traditional tunes, other central European music, as well as originals and improvisation. She is always happy to answer to special request in any of those styles above, or another musical style of your liking. Annette Bjorling performs on an unique instrument, a custom made carbone-fiber lever harp by the luthier John Dorman (Alberta, Leduc, Canada). This instrument has a beautiful, strong and carrying sound, and is suitable for most situations, outdoors as well as indoors. (Pictures and sound examples are available on her website - or via email.) Annette is a member of several performing groups such as Chicago-based Duo Controverso with clarinetist Kurt Bjorling, and the ensemble Myridián. Annette has performed and taught at international music festivals and harp conferences in Europe and North America. Annette recorded CDs as soloist and with various ensembles. She is teaching private harp lessons at her studio in Evanston, IL.
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Private Party•Reviewed on December 19, 2024•From Kenilworth, IL
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Wedding Ceremony•Reviewed on September 15, 2024•From Libertyville, IL
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Wedding•Reviewed on April 28, 2024•From Lake Geneva, WI
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- Ain't Misbehaving | Fats Waller
- Alone | Nacio Herb Brown
- Anniversary Waltz | Josef Ivanovici
- Anything You Can Do | Irving Berlin
- Autum Leaves | Joseph Kosma
- As Time Goes By | Herman Hupfeld
- At Last | Etta James
- Blue Skies | Irving Berlin
- Blues | various composers
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore | Duke Ellington
- Don't You Know | Bobby Worth
- Dream a Little Dream | Gus Kahn
- Embraceable You | George Gershvin
- Everybody Loves Somebody | Koslove/Taylor/Lane
- Fascination | F.D. Marchetti
- Fly Me to the Moon | Bart Howard
- How Deep is the Ocean | Irving Berlin
- How High the Moon | Morgan Lewis
- I Can't Help Falling in Love With You | G.D. Weiss
- I Can't Stop Loving You | Don Gibson
- I Got Rhythm | George Gershvin
- James | Pat Metheny
- Keepin' Out of Mischief | Fats Waller
- La Vie En Rose | Louis Guglielmi
- Love is Here to Stay | George Gershvin
- Lullaby of Birdland | George Shearing
- Misty | Erroll Garner
- Moon River | Henry Mancini
- Mr Sandman | Pat Ballard
- My Funny Valentine | Richard Rodgers
- Nataliana | Deborah Henson-Conant
- New Blues | Deborah Henson-Conant
- Oh | Lady Be Good
- Pennies from Heaven | Arthur Johnston
- Puttin' on the Ritz | Irving Berlin
- Softly Like in a Morning Sunrise | Sigmund Romberg
- Slowly | David Raksin
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow | Harold Arlen
- Stardust | Hoagy Carmichael
- Stormy Weather | Harold Arlen
- Sweet Sue | Just You
- 'S Wonderful | George Gershvin
- Take Five | Paul Desmond
- Tea for Two | Vincent Youmans
- They Say It's Wonderful | Irving Berlin
- Tiger Rag | Original Dixileand Jass Band
- Unchained Melody | Alex North
- What a Wonderful World | Bob Thiele/G.D. Weiss
- White Christmas | Irving Berlin
- A Little Night Music | Stephen Sondheim
- Anyone Can Whistle | Stephen Sondheim
- Anything Goes | Cole Porter
- Cats | Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Fantasticks | harvey Schmidt
- Fiddler on the Roof | Jerry Bock
- My Fair Lady | Fredericl Loewe
- Oaklahoma | Richard Rodgers
- Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Westside Story | Leonard Bernstein
- Sound of Music | Richard Rodgers
- Sweeney Todd | Stephen Sondheim
- All you need is Love | Beatles
- Annie's Song | John Denver
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Green Day
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight | Elton John
- Clocks | Coldplay
- Doctor Who | Murray Gold
- Every Breath You Take | Sting
- Fields of Gold | Sting
- Forrest Gump | Alan Silvestri
- Heaven | Bryan Adams
- I Made it Through the Rain | Barry Manilow
- In Dreams | Walsh/Shore
- Just the Way You Are | Bruno Mars
- Living on a Prayer | Bon Jovi
- Love Story | Taylor Swift
- May it Be | Enya
- My Heart Will Go On | James Horner
- Peter Gunn | Henry Mancini
- Pink Panther | Henry Mancini
- Rainbow Connection | Paul Williams
- Right Here Waiting | Richard Marx
- River Flows in You | Yiruma
- Something | Beatles
- Somewhere in Time | John Barry
- Song from MASH | Mike Altman
- Sound of Silence | Paul Simon
- Stairway to Heaven | Jimmy Page/Robert Plant
- Stand by Me | Ben E. King
- Starry | Starry Night
- Storybook Love | Willy De Ville)
- Time After Time | Cyndi Lauper
- Time in a Bottle | Jim Croce
- Then | Brad Paisly
- Third Man Theme | Anton Karas
- Thornbirds | Henry Mancini
- To Zanarkand | Nobuo Uematsu
- Truly Madly Deeply | Savage Garden
- Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Michel Legrand
- Up | Michael Giacchino
- Vincent | Don McLean
- When you Believe | Maria Carey/Whitney Houston
- Air on a G string | Joh.Seb. Bach
- Arioso | Joh.Seb. Bach
- Ave Maria | Bach/Gounod
- Ave Maria | Franz Schubert
- Bridal Chorus | Robert Wagner
- Canon in D | Johann Pachelbel
- Jesu Joy of Men's Desiring | Joh.Seb. Bach
- Wedding March | Felix Mendelssohn
- Trumpet Voluntary | Henry Purcell
- Chaconne | Henry Purcell
- Chaconne | G.F. Handel
- Passacaglia | G.F. Handel
- Praeludium | Joh.Seb. Bach
- Minuet | Joh.Seb. Bach
- Sheep may Safely Graze | Joh.Seb. Bach
- Sleepers Awake | Joh.Seb. Bach
- Water Music | G.F. Handel
- Four Seasons | A. Vivaldi
- Fantasias | Orlando di Lasso
- Fantasias | Orlando Gibbons
- Fantasias | John Jenkins
- Impromptu | F. Chopin
- Mazurka | F. Chopin
- Nocturne | F. Chopin
- Waltz | F. Chopin
- Minuet | W.A. Mozart
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik | W.A. Mozart
- Sonatinas | Louis Spohr
- Clair de Lune | Claude Debussy
- Fille au Cheveux | Claude Debussy
- Reverie | Claude Debussy
- Berceuse | Claude Debussy
- Berceuse | Gabriel Fauré
- Mai | Gabriel Fauré
- Pavane op.50 | Gabriel Fauré
- Reverie | Marcel Grandjany
- Trois Pieces Petits | Marcel Grandjany
- Feuilles D'Automne | Alphonse Hasselmanns
- Nocturne | Alphonse Hasselmanns
- Gymnopédies | Erik Satie
- Gnossiennes | Erik Satie
- uncountable Klezmer pieces | traditional
- various Jewish pieces | traditional
- various Eastern European pieces | traditional
- various Mediterranean pieces | traditional
- various Celtic pieces | traditional
- various Irish pieces | traditional
- various Central European pieces | traditional
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