Margaret Knight - Harpist

Harpist, Margaret Knight was the winner of an Anglo-Norse society scholarship. She has performed throughout the world. Her most notable appearances include the famous Winter Palace of Peter the Great in St Petersburg, in Japan for the Empress at the Soka harp festival, in America for the North American Jane Austin Society conference, in Istanbul, playing on a steam ship for Turkish celebrities and European journalists, as well as playing for private parties in Tokyo, Scandinavia and Germany! She also visits Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand every spring to give concerts and master classes.

Margaret has also composed and recorded voice and harp music for broadcast dramas on BBC Radio Three and made arrangements of many classical and folk songs. She has also appeared on Russian television and was featured in her own right on radio 4’s The Afternoon shift and Desert Island Discs for the Australian Broadcasting Company. She has recorded the sound tracks for many films - she was the hand-double for Kylie Minogue in Jim Henson’s 2005 "Jack and the Beanstalk" recorded at Elstree Studios!

In 2006, along with other well known British musicians Margaret was invited to Buckingham Palace to celebrate her services for British music. She is the resident harpist for Warwick Castle, and recently played for the Home Office and their European counterparts in the Queen's state dining room. Margaret plays Classical, Light Classical, Gaelic Folk and popular Jazz. Margaret has played at many events and will provide the perfect music for any occasion.