FAA Dimension: Disrupting the Harp
Noël Wan’s artistic path is shaped by both a deep musical fluency and a zeal for reimagining what the harp can be. A dual-degree alumna of the University of Illinois School of Music (DMA ’19, BMus ’14), she has ascended the international stage as a prize-winning classical harpist, an electroacoustic experimentalist, and a scholar deeply engaged in feminist theory and cultural inquiry. While her early career is filled with traditional milestones—Gold Medal at the 2022 USA International Harp Competition, solo performances from Carnegie Hall to Taipei—Wan now finds herself pushing the harp into radical new territory.
And sometimes, that territory sounds more like a machine shop than a concert hall.
Read the full article by Amy Karagiannakis over on FAA Dimension.