About Cheryl
As a leading pioneer in the field of historical harps and a popular performer and teacher, Dr. Cheryl Ann Fulton has enjoyed a wonderful international performing, recording, teaching and scholarly research career since 1984. Known for her exceptional artistry and expressive style, she performs on a wide range of harps.
Articles About Cheryl
Teachers
• Harp: Jane Weidensaul, Peter Eagle, Nancy Allen
• Early Music: Thomas Binkley
• Musicology: Dr. Hans Tischler, Dr. George Buelow, Dr.
Santiago Kastner
Degrees
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN:
• Doctor of Music (1997)
• Master of Music (1985)
• Bachelor of Science in Music with Distinction (1979)
Awards
• Burton E. Adams Prize for Academic Research -- doctoral thesis on the history of the triple harp.
• Grand Prix du Disque; Erato Records, 1989
• Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Lisbon, Portugal, 1987
• Indiana University Graduate Fellowship,1985-86
• Joseph Garton Memorial Scholarship,1985-86
• Research and Writing Grant from the Harp Renaissance Society,1985-86
• Aspen MusicFestival Fellowship, Summer 1977
Publications
• Contributing scholar to the New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians
• Authored a chapter for A Performers Guide to
Medieval Music (IU Press, 2000)
Notable Performances
• Principal harpist for Portugal's leading orchestra, the Orchestre Gulbenkian, 1987
• Solo recital at the John F. Kennedy Center featuring five historical harps on one program. "Fulton drew from all of them a serene and delicate sound... remarkable instruments which Fulton played with total skill and reverent affection." - The Washington Post
• Performances with many distinguished early music ensembles including Voices of Music, Ensemble Alcatraz, The Galax Quartet, El Mundo, Anonymous 4, Sequential, American Bach Soloists, American Baroque, The Boston Camerata, Camerata Mediterranea, Chanticleer, etc.
Professional Positions
• Served on the faculty for the Amherst Early Music
workshops for over twenty-five years
• First Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Music Workshop
• Founding President of the Historical Harp Society
• Director of the HHS 2015 Conference
• Faculty member, Thornton School of Music at USC.
• Western Regional Director of the American Harp Society 2013-2019.
Recordings
• Ms. Fulton can be heard on over forty albums and
soundtracks broadly ranging from medieval, baroque,
orchestral, and contemporary music to Celtic music and film scores.
• Labels include PolyGram, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi,
Koch International Classics, Nonesuch, Erato, Dorian,
Gourd Music, and others.
• Her first solo album, The Airs of Wales, brought her
recognition and acclaim as a "genuine virtuosa of her
instrument."
Founding Directorships
• Founder/Director of the medieval harp choir Angelorum
• Founder/Director of the Red Dragon Welsh Harpers
• Founder/Director of The White Horse Harpers
Teaching
• A highly sought-after teacher of her Touch and Tone
Technique for Harp, Ms. Fulton has private studios in the
San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, El Sobrante and Los
Gatos, and also teaches via Skype.
Personal
• When she is not harping she is playing with, training and
showing her two Belgian Tervuren dogs or out riding her
two Arabian horses on the trails in the East Bay hills.
