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.
Wedding Harpist
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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.
I am so pleased to be included in Lakewold Garden’s 2025 Poetry in the Gardens. Each year, Lakewold invites local poets to submit original poems to the Winter Garden Poetry competition. My poem, “An Edible Garden” was accepted and is now installed in the Garden’s self-guided tour. You can listen to the collection of 10 Read more…
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…
