Join us at the Jesup for a performance of seventeenth-century music from Northern Italy, on baroque triple harp.

Phoebe Durand-McDonnell grew up in Bar Harbor and began studying modern harp at age 10 with Liza Rey Butler. She earned a BM in harp performance at Oberlin Conservatory studying with Yolanda Kondonassis.

In 2019, she received a Fulbright Research grant to study historical harp performance and early music at the Haute École de Musique Genève (HEM) in Geneva, Switzerland. Phoebe received her first MA in 2021 from HEM, with intensive study on medieval and renaissance single- and double-rowed harps, Spanish arpa de dos ordenes, Italian and Welsh baroque arpa doppia, and the harpe organisée, or single-action pedal harp.

While in Europe, Phoebe performed with conductors Paul Agnew and Leonardo García Alarcón, and studied at the International School of Improvisation with Dr. Maria Cleary and Davide Monti. In North America, she has performed with the Baroque Orchestra of Maine, Crescendo Early Music, and collaborated with the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard for their "Treasures of Darkness" program. Phoebe has given masterclasses in baroque and renaissance harps at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Halifax Institute of Traditional and Early Music, and gave the inaugural recital of the Halifax Early Music Festival.

In 2023, Phoebe completed an MA in musicology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.