Hannah Stone (born 1987) is a professional

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harpist. Since 2007 she has performed internationally and won a number of prizes, and from 2011 to 2015 was

Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales The Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales is a position within the Royal Household. In 2000, King Charles III, the then Prince of Wales, revived a tradition of having Welsh harpists, which was the first time the post has been occupied since it wa ...

Education

Stone graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the

Guildhall School of Music & Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...

. As part of an exchange programme, she studied at the Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg, under Professor Helga Storck. In 2010 she furthered her studies at

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(RWCMD), Cardiff, where she graduated in 2012 with a Master of Arts.

Career

Hannah Stone began performing at the age of 8. When she was 15, she played for The Queen on Her Majesty's Jubilee Tour of Wales in 2002, and has played for the Royal Family on several other occasions. In October 2008, Stone was selected to represent the Guildhall School in collaboration with the Academies Festival Orchestra,

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. This project culminated in an opening gala performance for the Singapore Sun Festival at the Esplanade Theatre with

Dame Kiri te Kanawa Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa , (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a retired New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Te ...

. In 2008 she was awarded the third prize at the Camac Harp Competition, London, and won the first prize at the National Eisteddfod, Cardiff. During 2010 Stone was awarded the 3rd prize at the International Harp Competition in

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and 2nd prize at the Franz Joseph Reinl Competition in Vienna. She was also appointed principal harpist with the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra for 2010. In June 2011 Stone was appointed the

. Hannah Stone performed at the NATO Conference Dinner at Cardiff Castle in 2014 to delegates including US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.

Personal life

Stone was born in Swansea and grew up in

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and

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. She married singer Gary Griffiths in the early 2010s, but after two years the couple split up. In 2017 she had a daughter by Sir

Bryn Terfel Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (; born 9 November 1965) (known professionally as Bryn Terfel) is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly '' Figaro'', '' Leporello'' and '' ...

, whom she married on 26 July 2019 at Caersalem Newydd Baptist Church in Swansea; she does not use the title "Lady Terfel".

References

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