Nadia Birkenstock is a folk harp player and singer from Germany. She started playing the piano at five and discovered the Celtic harp through the Scottish harp duo Sìleas, consisting of Patsy Seddon and Mary Macmaster. Birkenstock received her first vocal training in the United States (Westover School, Connecticut) and afterwards studied voice at the Music Conservatory of Duesseldorf in Germany. She taught herself to play the Celtic Harp at 16 and attended masterclasses with Kim Robertson (USA),...
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Nadia Birkenstock is a folk harp player and singer from Germany. She started playing the piano at five and discovered the Celtic harp through the Scottish harp duo Sìleas, consisting of Patsy Seddon and Mary Macmaster. Birkenstock received her first vocal training in the United States (Westover School, Connecticut) and afterwards studied voice at the Music Conservatory of Duesseldorf in Germany. She taught herself to play the Celtic Harp at 16 and attended masterclasses with Kim Robertson (USA), Bill Taylor (Scotland) and others. During her vocal studies she created her first solo performance program for Celtic harp and voice and has since appeared in concerts all over Europe and in the USA. Festival appearances include the "Sentmenat International Harp Festial (Barcelona/Spain) the “Rencontres Internationales de la Harpe Celtique” at Dinan (France, Brittany), the “Schlossfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci” (Berlin), the Venne Folk Festival, Celtic Days Hude, Keltenfest Buchberg (Switzerland). Birkenstock has appeared on tv and radio with WDR, SWR, RBB, France Musiques, Celtic World Radio Australia and others. She also frequently plays for the Irish Embassies in Cologne, Munich and Frankfurt. Besides her arrangements of traditional Celtic folk songs and harp tunes, her repertoire also features her own songs and compositions.
