Canadian harpist, Phoebe Powell, is a second-year Fellow at the New World Symphony. She has been praised for her breadth of expression ranging from “mature and virtuosic to gorgeously musical and sweet.”

Second prize winner of the 2018 OSM Manulife Competition in Montreal, Ms. Powell was also awarded the Aspen Summer Music Festival scholarship.

An avid orchestral musician, Ms. Powell has performed extensively with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Toronto Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic.

Ms. Powell has been privileged to participate in summer festivals such as the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., NYO Canada and Ticino Musica. She has been fortunate to study privately and in master classes in the US, Canada, Switzerland and Germany, with internationally acclaimed harpists Nancy Allen, Fabrice Pierre, Susann McDonald, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anneleen Lenearts, Emmanuel Ceysson and Sivan Magen.

Ms. Powell has been the recipient of the Ihnatowycz Emerging Artist Scholarship, Aspen Summer Music Festival Fellowship, NYO Canada Award of Excellence and an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Career Development Grant. She holds a bachelor of music degree and an artist diploma from The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she studied with world-renowned harpist, Judy Loman.