Division: College, Expanded Education

Department: Faculty, Strings; Prep Ensembles

Instrument: Harp

Harpist Franziska Huhn has given numerous solo recitals throughout the United States as well as international recitals in Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Syria, Pakistan, and Germany, including several performances for the German President (Johannes Rau and Horst Koehler). Huhn has participated in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. She later returned to Tanglewood to perform contemporary music as a Fromm player. Huhn is also active in and around the Boston area performing as a substitute harpist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and playing regularly with chamber music ensembles. She is also a strong proponent of contemporary music, as she performs regularly with the Callithumpian Consort and Sound Icon. Lior Navok, Daniel Pinkham, and John Heiss have written music for her.