Portia Diwa,Harpist, began playing the harp when she was 9 years old under the guidance of Diana Stork. Portia has studied with world-renowned harpists Cheryl Ann Fulton, Carlos Reyes, and Ann Heymann and has performed in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens, Zeum Theater, and City Hall, St. Mary Magdalene Church in Berkeley, and at the Dorothy Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park. Portia is a San Francisco Waldorf School and SFWHS alumni, and a graduate Santa Clara University. Portia is a currently directing the Therapeutic Harp program for San Francisco Insitute for Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center and Marin General Hospital. Portia is available for concerts, private parties, and private lessons.
Amelia Romano is our harpist as well as our camp assistant in the 2008 August and Winter camps. Many of the children already know her from our 2007 camps, when she accompanied our stories and played some of her original compositions. Millie is a student at UC Berkeley, after attending San Francisco Waldorf School and Lowell High School.
KC Jiang is a Bay Area music performer. When he was a kid, he dreamed to be a street music performer some day but he grew up becoming an engineer. A couple of years ago, his childhood dream came true. He plays music at San Francisco tourist locations, such as The Cannery, bars in Berkeley, such as Jupiter and Farmer’s Market in San Jose, etc. He also plays music at festivals, nursing homes, senior citizen centers and churches. KC plays classical music, oriental (Chinese) melodies, European folk songs, old time America songs and his original melodies on harmonica and Irish whistle/flute. KC has been wandering in those two worlds, engineering and music performing and enjoying both of them. KC's new CD is available for purchase at the studio and online at his website, www.kcjiang.com.
