DEANNE VON ROOYEN, Harp

Deanne attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she  was a student of Marilyn Costello and Judy Loman. She completed her  M.Mus. as a student of Sarah Bullen at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and her  native South Africa as a soloist and chamber musician. Deanne has  performed at two World Harp Congresses and has made recordings of  chamber music and solo repertoire. Deanne has been actively involved in  performing music of contemporary composers and has given premieres of  several new works for harp, both in concerts and on recordings. As harpist  with the Curtis Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra and the Civic  Orchestra of Chicago she performed with conductors such as Daniel  Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, John Adams, Marin Alsop and Yuri  Temirkanov. She was the principal harpist of the New World Symphony  Orchestra in Miami under Michael Tilson Thomas. 

Deanne is an Associate Professor of geology at Acadia University and has  a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Carleton University. Her research interests  include structural geology, geochronology, and metamorphic petrology in  relation to structural and tectonic problems in the Appalachians, Northern  Quebec, and Labrador.