Monica Schley, Harp Escape
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Monica Schley is Seattle’s most versatile harpist. She has performed with Secret Chiefs 3, Butch Morris, Evan Flory-Barnes, Jherek Bischoff, Eyvand Kang, Masada, Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis, Jim Knapp, Hey Marsailles, Ahamefule J. Oluo, and many other artists.

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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.

Harp Lessons and Music Media

As a teacher, she has a home studio and teaches at Dusty Strings Music, in Seattle. Monica has an informative and entertaining YouTube channel, and has published sheet music with Mel Bay, “Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp“.

Wedding Harpist

Wedding Harpist Wedding Song Examples:

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

Sun. Apr 12
with Some’tet
at at Palouse Winery
12431 Vashon Hwy SW, Vashon, WA 98070
1:30-4:30pm

Sat. Apr 18
solo lounge harp
at at Wine Shop Vashon
17205 Vashon Hwy SW A-1, Vashon, WA 98070
6:00-8:00pm

Sun. May 25
Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp
at Folklife Festival
Seattle Rep Theater (Rotunda) at Seattle Center
12:00-12:30pm

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Harp Blog

A Wedding that Led to Love at a Crossroads

April 30, 2026

Once, I was booked for a wedding that led to love at a crossroads. Back then, I lived in an easy-to-get-to Seattle neighborhood. I had a home studio that I used for teaching harp lessons at the back of my house, and I also had wedding couples visit me there for in-person consultations, which was Read more…

My First Wedding Gig on the Harp

March 31, 2026

My first wedding gig on the harp lead me to learn two of the most traditionally popular pieces of wedding music of all time. Lapiz lazuli was the color of the sky of the stained glass window next to me in the church. When I was 17 years old, I had been playing the harp Read more…