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Monica Schley is Seattle’s most versatile harpist. Classically-trained, she freelances in many styles: new music, chamber, improvisational, avant garde, jazz and rock. She leads a modern chamber jazz trio, The Daphnes, and has worked with Secret Chiefs 3, Butch Morris, Evan Flory-Barnes, Jherek Bischoff, Eyvand Kang, Masada, Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis, Jim Knapp, Hey Marsailles, Ahamefule J. Oluo, Kanye West and many other artists.

Monica is available for virtual events, private & corporate engagements, weddings, recording, live performance, funerals, and harp instruction. As a Certified Clinical Musician, she plays for hospitals and hospice. As a teacher, she has a home studio in Seattle a with Dusty Strings Music.

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Hildegard von Bingen for Harp

The book is out! Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp is now available from Mel Bay Publications. This collection of sheet music includes fifteen of Hildegard’s song arranged for the harp. Regarded as a mystic, herbalist and healer, Hildegard von Bingen lived from 1098-1179. She was proficient in many areas, including composition, and also wrote several books about religion, art, politics, philosophy, and science. Find Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp on YouTube! Sign up for newsletter updates here.

 

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Songs of Hildegard von Bingen, arranged for harp.

In Concert

Sat. February 15
Waterways Dinner Cruise
Lake Union (Seattle)
6:00-9:00 pm

Fri. March 7
Originals and Songs of Hildegard von Bingen
with Some’tet (Vashon Island)
Snapdragon
7:00-10:00

Sat. March 8
Originals and Songs of Hildegard von Bingen
with City of Bellevue Cross-Cultural Programing
Bellevue Baha’i Center
4:00-7:00

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What a Medieval Mystic Can Teach Us About Wellness

January 31, 2025

Hildegard von Bingen was an visionary artist, herbalist, healer, writer, philosopher, poet, and composer born at the end of the 12th Century. She became highly respected and well-known within her lifetime as a healer who used music and plants as medicine. Like Hildegard von Bingen, I believe herbs (and music) can soothe and heal the Read more…

Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp Book Now Available

December 31, 2024

I am happy to announce that Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp is now available as a book from Mel Bay Publications! After two years of work arranging twenty of Hildegard’s Gregorian Chants for Harp, the book of sheet music, “Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp” is available now! I was first introduced Read more…