Contact Barbara Crowe, ASU Director of Music Therapy and let her know you are attending this event by phoning at 480.965.7413 or email Barbara.J.Crowe@asu.edu.

Christina will be available for a limited number of private lessons on Thursday, May 29, and Friday, May 30. Please contact Jocelyn Obermeyer, community outreach for The Harp Foundation and from Studio “O” at 602.265.4014 or 602.565.0522 to schedule your time.

Christina Tourin presents material from her book, “Harp Therapy: A Cradle of Sound” which includes current research and a demonstration of using the harp in a therapeutic setting. She will also provide information on the “Rainbow of Sound” program featuring six harps used both individually and in ensemble therapeutic work In places such as rehab centers, senior care facilities, and children's hospitals.

Christina is a second generation harpist who began playing harp at the age of four. She received Music and Education degrees from the University of Vermont and also studied harp at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at McGill University in Montreal. She studied and taught Waldorf education and public school music for 20 years.

Her graduate work was in counseling and psychology and she studied with Susan Borg in the Resonant Kinesiology program. She completed music therapy studies at Arizona State University. She performs extensively as a recording artist and provides her signature method of DVDs and 14 recordings which have been internationally distributed.

With shimmering, mystical chords and transcendent harmonies, her harp playing has been described as “liquid gold.” She is an active workshop organizer and has been instrumental in the revival of the folk harp since the early 1970's. In 1982 she founded the Scottish Harp Society of America. In 2005, she formed and directed the International Harp Therapy Program.