Portrait of Claire Thai looking out of a window.

Claire Thai, harp

  • Graduation Recital
  • Mar 21, 2022 @ 8:00 P.M.

After years of study, members of the class of 2022 share their talents and passion through a final graduation recital. Admission requires advance reservation and is complimentary.

Join Harp student Claire Thai for her graduation recital. Her program includes works by Takemitsu, Salzedo, Debussy, and more. Claire is a student of Elizabeth Hainen and entered Curtis in 2018.

A livestream of the performance will also be available on Curtis’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series. The Curtis Institute of Music receives funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Program

TAKEMITSU And Then I Knew 'Twas Wind

Calvin Mayman, flute
Keoni Bolding, viola
Claire Thai, harp

BOULANGER, transcr. THAI Trois Morceaux

Claire Thai, harp

TAILLEFERREf, transcr. THAI “La Tirelitentaine,” from Jeux de Plein Air

Claire Thai, harp
Elizabeth Hainen, harp

DEBUSSY, arr. SALZEDO “Danseuses de Delphes,” from Préludes, Book I
DEBUSSY, arr. SALZEDO “Voiles,” from Préludes, Book I

Claire Thai, harp
Daniel Benedict, harp
Elizabeth Hainen, harp
Subin Lee, harp

DEBUSSY, transcr. THAI “Bruyères,” from Préludes, Book II
DEBUSSY, transcr. THAI Ballade
DAMASE Sicilienne variée

Claire Thai, harp

About the Performers

Claire Thai, from Tucson, Ariz., entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2018 and studies harp with Elizabeth Hainen. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Thai is the L. Daniel Dannenbaum Fellow.

Ms. Thai has appeared as a soloist with the Phoenix, Tucson, and Southern Arizona symphony orchestras; and she performed a solo program at the World Harp Congress in 2017. She served as principal harp of the Tucson Philharmonic Youth Orchestra from 2015 to 2018. In the summers, she has attended the Rocky Ridge Music Center and the Young Artists’ Harp Seminar.

Ms. Thai received a Lyon & Healy Award in 2019 and won first prizes at the International Portuguese Harp Competition and the International Young Artists’ Harp Competition in the 2017–18 season. In addition to several solo harp competition awards, she won the Grand Prize at the Phoenix Symphony Youth Orchestra’s Concerto Competition and first place in competitions held by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Tucson.

Ms. Thai also composes and has been involved with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s Project for seven years. She was commissioned by the Vail Preservation Society to score a new historical documentary, Voices of Vail, which premiered in 2018.

Ms. Thai began her musical studies with the piano at age three, and she began learning the
harp at age five. In her spare time, she enjoys environmental science, mathematics, video games, and building her own computers.

Daniel Benedict, from Oak Park, Ill., is a student of Elizabeth Hainen and entered Curtis in 2020.

Keoni Bolding, from Telford, Pa., is a student of Hsin-Yun Huang and entered Curtis in 2021.

Subin Lee, from Seoul, is a student of Elizabeth Hainen and entered Curtis in 2019.

Calvin Mayman, from Ann Arbor, Mich., is a student of Jeffrey Khaner and entered Curtis in 2018.

Elizabeth Hainen, faculty

    • Date Mar 21, 2022
    • Time 8:00 P.M.
    • Location Curtis Institute of Music, Field Concert Hall