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Based in Wilmington, North Carolina, wedding harpist Christina Brier has over 15 years of experience in providing the perfect music for special occasions. She will make your event unique by tailoring her musical selections to your preferences. She performs frequently in a duo with violinist Linda Estep.
Christina serves coastal North Carolina and South Carolina including Morehead City, Jacksonville, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Southport, Oak Island, and Myrtle Beach.
Whether you are hosting a party or planning a wedding, high-quality harp music will provide the perfect ambiance for your event.
Arrived on time. Very professional... great Playlist of songs. Provided a perfect addition to my daughter's reception cocktail hour.
Christine went above and beyond for us. Even arranged a special song for me to walk down the aisle to. Highly recommend her to anyone who needs a harpist!
Many thanks to Christina for her part in making my son’s wedding perfect! Christina was accessible and helpful in planning and corresponding with us. She is so talented! Being a musician myself, I want the very best and she was awesome! I highly recommend her to make any wedding or event perfect!
She was very professional and played beautifully. I received a lot of compliments on her performance during dinner.
Christina was amazing!!!!! Her music was perfect and beautiful. In addition of being an excellent musician, she was flexible and easy to communicate with before our special day. Christina I cannot thank you enough for making our wedding the most memorable one for our guest to brag about.
Christina Brier is a wonderful, very talented and polished musician!! The harp music she provided for my son’s wedding was the perfect beginning to the ceremony! Being a musician myself, I immediately recognized her professionalism! It was nice knowing I didn’t have to worry if the music would be good. Actually it wasn’t just good, it was absolutely awesome & amazing! I recommend Christina to anyone wanting a truly talented musician for an event! Thank you! Christina ❤️🎼🎵
I hired Christina for my daughter's wedding. She replied to my emails promptly and sent me a list of songs that she knew. She asked for my favorites and I added some that were not on her list. She played every selection flawlessly. She arrived early and took a very short break. Her fee was very reasonable. I hope to be able to hire her again. Bravo, Christina. You made the wedding so beautiful! Thank you.
We hired Christina to play harp at our wedding. She was a complete professional both before the event and on the day. She always responded to emails very promptly and kindly accommodated our last-minute music requests. The music she played was just marvellous and set a very, very special tone at our event. We would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone looking for a harpist.
Christina and her violinist were excellent . They played an awesome mixture of classical and pop music appropriately set to harp and violin .
We were exceptionally pleased with Christina. Guests were very complimentary of her music, her wide range of selections and the fact that she played the entire 2.5 hours of the event, with two very brief breaks. I will definitely hire her again!
Christina helped make my wedding on August 12th, 2017 absolutely perfect in every way! She was so easy to work with throughout the whole wedding planning process, and she was even willing to learn any new songs I asked before my wedding day. I couldn't give a higher recommendation!
Christina provided beautiful music at our daughter's wedding. She is very talented, reliable and is a team player with a positive attitude. It was evident that she is accomplished and experienced.
Thank you Christina for playing at our wedding ceremony and at our cocktail hour. You were fantastic!! The music was so peaceful and romantic. It absolutely made the event!! You made us feel so special and the ceremony felt like we were in heaven!! I would highly recommend her for any events:)
Beautiful harpist. Great communicator. Very professional. The harp set great ambiance for our wedding. Highly recommended.
Christina did such an excellent job playing some new trendy not so traditional songs for our wedding ceremony this past june! She was so wonderful and easy to work with and has such amazing talent!!
Christina played the harp for our wedding at the Carolina Yacht Club and she did an incredible job! She played during the ceremony and cocktail hour and it definitely added to the charm of our venue. I would strongly recommend Christina to anyone in need of a harpist! She is extremely talented and a pleasure to work with!
Christina was easy to work with, had an extensive website so I could preselect the songs to be played. She also accompanied a soloist that I hired, and had a violinist to accompany.
I will recommend her to anyone who wants to add beauty to their wedding or event. Her repertoire is extensive and not only wedding oriented.
It was the icing on the cake---fabulous and memorable !!
She arrived early to set up. She starting playing as she talk with residents and ask them numbers of time if they had requests and some of the resident did. She carried herself very professional and she politely took a break so she could enjoy our special dinner and then she continue to play till residents left. Some of resident stop to thank her ---she made evening so special for residents and once again enjoyable. She played our 98 yrs old special song. We can not thank her enough for a special evening she is a very sweet lady Thank you so much!!!!!!
Very professional and did an excellent job playing for my daughters wedding.
She was amazing and easy to work with! She went out of her way to learn new songs so they could be played before the ceremony.
We loved having Christina play her harp for our daughter's wedding. She had a large selection of music and tailored it to exactly what my daughter wanted for the ceremony and cocktail hour reception. I would definitely recommend her to others.
Christina was truly amazing! Her playing is beautiful and she was very helpful with any questions I had. I highly recommend her if you're looking for a harpist for your event!!
Ms. Brier was prompt and professional. She was easy to communicate with during the planning process. My guests enjoyed her performance. I will gladly recommend her for future events at my venue.
Price Range: $500-1500
Equally at home on the concert stage, in front of a classroom, or at a board meeting, Christina Brier performs harp as a soloist, orchestra member, and chamber musician throughout the coastal Carolina region and beyond.
Ms. Brier frequently appears in concert as a member of the internationally award-winning contemporary harp duo Lilac 94 (with harpist Kathryn Sloat). Lilac 94 has performed in a wide variety of venues including the Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Fishtank Theater (MO), MISE-EN-Place (Brooklyn), Fringe Arts (PA), Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (NY), Wilson Center (NC) and Satosphère at Société des arts technologiques (Montréal). Recent highlights included performances in Philadelphia in a full production of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s KLANG: The 24 Hours of the Day presented by Analog Arts and producer Elizabeth Huston and capturing Third Prize at the International Harp Competition in Saluzzo, Italy (2018).
Christina’s latest chamber music endeavor has been the launch of the Brierwood Ensemble. The Brierwood Ensemble– violinist Linda Estep, violist/violinist Clark Spencer, bassoonist Helena Kopchick Spencer, and harpist Christina Brier – is a local chamber ensemble based in Wilmington, North Carolina. A hallmark of Brierwood Ensemble concerts is the inclusion of informal program notes from the stage, with the performers themselves offering insights into the historical and cultural context of the musical selections. The ensemble regularly seeks opportunities to pair music with visual art and literature. Most recently the Brierwood Ensemble performed a multimedia program based on the beloved children’s story The Secret Garden as part of the Seahawk FAM (Family Arts Matinee) series at UNC Wilmington and then again in 2019 in educational performances at select New Hanover County Schools.
As an orchestral musician, Ms. Brier performs as principal harpist with the Carolina Philharmonic and Opera Wilmington Orchestra in North Carolina. Her orchestral engagements have included the North Carolina Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Charleston Symphony, South Carolina Philharmonic, Fayetteville Symphony, Long Bay Symphony, Savannah Philharmonic, Wilmington City Ballet Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia, and the Pierre Monteux Summer Festival Orchestra. She has been featured as a soloist in orchestral concerto appearances with the Wilmington Symphony, Tallis Chamber Orchestra, Menomonee Falls Symphony Orchestra, and Maranatha Symphony.
As noted by Star News, Christina "loves to do outreach for her instrument." In 2018 she co-founded the Brooklyn Arts Music Academy with violinist Linda Estep in the Brooklyn Arts District of Wilmington, North Carolina where she teaches harp and operates as Executive Director. She works as a harp instructor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A passionate harp educator, she has been asked to present harp-related workshops and masterclasses (both with Lilac 94 and individually) for various harp camps, ensembles, and college programs such as the Connecticut Valley Harp Intensive, Christopher Newport University, Virginia Commonwealth University, GreenSpring International Academy of Music (Richmond, VA), South Carolina Music Educators Association (Columbia, SC), and Urban Youth Harp Ensemble (Atlanta, GA).
In 2014, Christina spent 6 months touring India performing as a solo harpist and in a duo with Bulgarian flutist Petya Vasileva. Based in Mumbai, the duo performed Bollywood music throughout India, including the major cities of Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Chennai, and Bangalore as well as Muscat, Oman.
Christina holds a Master's degree in Harp Performance from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Kathleen Bride. At Eastman, she earned a certification in Community Music Teaching and was awarded the Willow Hall Press Award for Harp.
September 25, 2021 • 5:30pm - 7:00pm | Wedding Reception |
February 14, 2020 • 6:00pm - 9:00pm | Holiday Party |
December 14, 2019 • 3:00pm - 5:30pm | Wedding Ceremony |
December 07, 2019 • 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Wedding Ceremony |
June 09, 2018 • 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Cocktail Party |
March 25, 2018 • 12:00pm - 2:00pm | Wedding Engagement |
July 01, 2017 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Wedding Ceremony |
June 18, 2016 • 5:30pm - 8:30pm | Funeral/Memorial Service |
December 19, 2015 | Holiday Party (Christmas) |
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