Rachael Gladwin

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Rachael Gladwin is a contemporary harpist based in Manchester, UK, known for her work with bands, theatre productions, large-scale performance projects, and improvisation. A trained vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, Rachael began playing the harp at age five and earned a first-class honours degree in Music from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2008.

Her diverse career includes session work for artists like Guy Garvey, Corinne Bailey Rae, DJ Shadow, and Dutch Uncles. She has also composed original scores for theatre, including Odd Doll Theatre's Red Rust and improvised harp concertos for pyrotechnics company pa-BOOM. Rachael frequently performs with the Matthew Halsall Sextet and has recorded live sessions for BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, and 6 Music. Her own band, Rachael and the Red Socks, released their debut album Melodies and Time in 2011, with a second album slated for release in autumn 2018.

Since 2008, Rachael has been the harpist for the French street theatre company La Machine, performing on a cherry picker 40 feet in the air in front of crowds of over 100,000 people worldwide. She has also collaborated with renowned artists such as Nitin Sawhney, Gilles Peterson, Jimmy Osmond, and Susan Boyle. Rachael is endorsed by Camac Harps, playing their electro-acoustic pedal harp and electric lever harp.

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