Featured artiste
Tara Viscardi
Hailing from the Beara Peninsula in the South-West of Ireland, Tara Viscardi is an Irish traditional, classical and baroque harpist. Selected as a 2024 UK Harp Association Emerging Artist and first prize winner of the 2021 London Camac Harp Competition, Tara has performed and recorded in venues including Wigmore Hall, Abbey Road Studios, the Irish Cultural Centre, the London Irish Centre, the Irish Embassy London, Áras an Uachtaráin, the National Concert Hall Dublin and the Mansion House London. She has been featured at festivals including the 2023 Cairde na Cruite International Festival for Irish Harp,2020/21/23 Bloomsbury Festival, 13th World Harp Congress Hong Kong, 2021 Harp on Wight International Festival, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and the 2023 Wales International Harp Festival, where she was a prize winner in the World Music Competition.She has performed for President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins, HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Hillsborough Castle as well as for An Taoiseach and An Tánaiste upon their visits to London.
