Biography
Lucia McGinnis is an accomplished harper from County Derry. She began playing the harp with harper/ composer Dr. Janet Harbison and performed with the Grammy award winning Belfast Harp Orchestra in Ireland, France and Germany. Since then Lucia completed a HND in Traditional Irish Music in the Donegal Gaeltacht and recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Irish music and dance studies at the University of Limerick in 2009. Lucia is currently studying an MA in Music Therapy at the University of Limerick.
Her harp teachers have in included Laoise Kelly, Grainne Hambly, Michael Rooney, Anne-marie O'Farrell, Maire Ni Casagaigh, among many other fine exponents of the Irish harp.
Lucia was a resident harpist at a five star beach and wedding resort in Byblos, Lebanon in 2009. Lucia was also a harpist at Bunratty Castle during 2007. She has performed and taught the harp in the Lorient Interceltique festival, and the Isle of Man festival Yu Chruinnaght 2006. She has played for many state dignitories and corporate functions across Ireland and the United Kingdom, and recorded for RTE, BBC and the Sydney Youth Theatre. She continues to teach and perform the harp based in the South West of Ireland.