Our Mission
Photo Credit: Marie Teemant
HarpSparks is a creative community for curious listeners, sonic explorers, and artists of all kinds. Through education days, exploration sessions, and harp-centered performances, we celebrate soundscapes that stretch our imagination and challenge our perceptions.
Our Vision
Founded by harpist Michelle Gott in 2024, HarpSparks is a creative initiative encompassing three elements: a biannual weekend festival, workshops, and virtual offerings. As the project evolves, we seek to build a community of curious listeners and artists pushing boundaries and dissolving the stereotypes that keep us all small.
In our 2024 inaugural season, we expanded our perception of the harp through works with electronics and voice, improvisation, and a rare performance of Freude for two amplified harps and voice by Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 2025, we presented our first virtual retreat on the neuroscience of practicing with Dr. Molly Gebrian. Our upcoming collaboration with the Voices Dance Project - Shaping Reciprocity - explores themes of interspecies empathy and reciprocity, through new works for harp and dance ensemble by nine local composers.
Photo Credit: Curtis Perry
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We anticipate releasing single tickets and festival passes in mid-April 2026!
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If you are curious about interdisciplinary arts, wanting to connect with real humans creating new things, or looking for creative encouragement in your own life, then HarpSparks is definitely for you!
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Not really. It is a developing community of people who are curious about interdisciplinary music, the harp, and what more becomes possible when we boldly embrace the unfamiliar. Artists who come to this space may be classically-trained but seeking new dimensions of themselves. Other people may come out of sheer curiosity. No matter your background and training, you are welcome.