Monica Schley is a classically trained Seattle harpist who freelances in many styles: new music, chamber, improvisational, avant guard, jazz and rock. She has worked with Butch Morris, Evan Flory-Barnes, Jherek Bischoff, Masada, Jesse Sykes, Jim Knapp, Hey Marsailles and Kanye West. She is available for private engagements, weddings, recording, live performance, funerals and harp instruction.

MUSIC + POETRY BLOG

A Million Things About Water

April 25th

My brain is a buzz. I’m working on the score for Mandy Greer’s third and most current installation of Mater Matrix Mother and Medium titled”Saltus Chori Aevum” less than two weeks away. For sources of musical inspiration I’ve...

Acres and Acres (The Scroll Poem)

March 21st

Born out of 2008 road trip to Santa Fe, NM, this poem came to be. For a performance later that year at Artopia with the talented Sheri Brown, I adapted the poetry onto a long scroll. I’m currently revisiting its themes of fiber and water for an upco...

Leap! Spring! (And Thoughts about Time)

March 21st

It’s a leap year. We got an extra day in February, a bonus of time. Time is elusive and continually slipping from my grasp as I travel on this journey as an artist and a mother. So with this gift of extra time in the year, I have taken a leap into t...

HARP + POETRY CALENDAR

March 9: solo harp and voice for Bellevue Art Museum's member's celebration from 6:30-8:00. Followed by BAMignite: Meditation Rave

March 22: harp/poetry performance, FogDog Gallery, Arlington

April 27: private business event, Seattle Art Museum

May 5 + 6: multi-media arts event! (for which I act as "composer"/harpist/poet/performer :Mater Matrix Mother and Medium, 7pm procession starts to performance at the Dupan Fountain, Seattle Center, FREE + ALL AGES (event on Facebook)

May 27: reading new poems at Club Shostacovich, The Royal Room, 7:30pm