Zita (Harpist) Award-winning, experienced, versatile, professional harpist.

Main band photo
Contact Now
Watch / Listen

Gallery

Price Guide

The guide prices below are for events in New Malden, Surrey. Outside this area extra travel expenses will apply. Please get in touch for an accurate quote.
Up to 1 hour: £375
Up to 2 hours: £425
Up to 3 hours: £480
More than 3 hours (£50 for every extra hour): from £540
Amplification £50.
In case the venue has a lot of stairs/ moving the harp/ playing outdoors extra £50.
Contact now

About / Biography

Zita is a talented harpist who has performed widely in all the most prestigious venues in Portugal and broadcast live for the national classical music radio station. Her performances also include recitals in England at Wigmore Hall, the Harp on Wight Festival and at the Proms at St. Jude’s Music Festival and most recently for the Edinburgh International Festival with the RSNO.

Zita is a winner of the Guy Magrath Harp Prize, the Casa da Musica Prize, the Yamaha prize and an International prize winner in the Camac Harp Competition in London and the International Harp Competition in Szeged. She has also won the Young Musicians Awards in Portugal in the category of chamber music. Zita has also been a Finalist at the Patrons Awards, Royal Academy of Music, London.

She is passionate about chamber music and working closely in small ensembles which has led her to establish several groups such as her duo with tenor Kieran White, Portucale Trio with flute and viola, 94Strings Duo with harpist Glain Dafydd and a duo with violinist Beatriz Rola.


She has been invited to play with numerous orchestras including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orquestra Gulbenkian, the Royal Orchestral Society, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Bloomsbury Opera Orchestra, and the Academy Symphony Orchestra, working with prestigious conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Semyon Bychkov, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Pedro Neves, Christopher Warren-Green, Manuel Lopez-Gomez and Eugene Corporon. She has also toured Portugal with the Orquestra XXI with emerging conductor Dinis Sousa and the Estágio Gulbenkian Orquestra under the baton of conductor Joana Carneiro.


Zita graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2015 and with a Master of Arts with Distinction in 2017 under tutelage of Professor Karen Vaughan and Professor Emerita Skaila Kanga, supported with a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Santander Universities UK and the Golden Charitable Trust.

Reviews (6)

There are currently 6 user ratings for Zita (Harpist)

AVERAGE RATING

10 / 101

Location

Based in New Malden, Surrey

Will travel up to 70 miles
green circle = areas covered (up to 70 miles)
Please note that the circles shown on the map are calculated "as the crow flies". By road distances may vary, so please get in touch for an accurate quote.

Classical

Andres

o Aquatintes

o Waltz

Bach

o Air On G String

o Prelude in C Major

o Sheep May Safely Graze

o Stay Thou By Me

Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata

Bellini, Casta Diva

Boccherini, Minuet

Chopin

o Etude Opus 10, No. 3

o Raindrop Prelude Opus 28, No. 15

Clarke, Chaconne

Damage, Adagietto

Delibes, Flower Duet (Lakme)

Gounod, Ave Maria

Handel, The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba Hasselmans, Le Rouet

O’Carolan, Concerto

Pachelbel, Canon In D Major

Puccini, O Mio Babbino Caro

Renié

o Au Bord Du Ruisseau

o Grandmere Raconte Une Histoire

Tournier, Quatre Preludes

Vivaldi, Largo (Winter)

Webber

o Don’t Cry For Me Argentina

o Pie Jesu

Movies, Musicals and Games

A Little Night Music, Send In The Clowns

A Star Is Born

o Shallow

o Evergreen

A Summer Place Theme

Aladdin, A Whole New World

Bambi, Love Is A Song

Beaches, The Wind Beneath My Wings

Beauty And The Beast

o Something There

o Be Our Guest

o Tale As Old As Time

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head

Caroussel Of Progress, There’s A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Cats, Memory

Cinderella

o A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

o Cinderella

Cinema Paradiso, Se

Dumbo, Baby Mine

Fiddler On The Roof, Sunrise, Sunset

Final Fantasy VII Main Theme

Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Is All Around (Reg Presley)

Frozen

o Do You Want To Build A Snowman

o Let It Go

Game Of Thrones Main Theme

Ghost, Unchained Melody (also from Unchained)

Gone With The Wind, My Own True Love

Home Alone, Somewhere In My Memory

Ice Castles, Through The Eyes Of Love

Jesus Christ Superstar, I Don’t Know How To Love Him

Jurassic Park Main Theme

La La Land, City of Stars

Lady And The Tramp

o Peace On Earth

o Bella Notte

o He’s A Tramp

o La La Lu

Little Mermaid

o Fathoms Below

o Kiss The Girl

o Part Of Your World

Melody Time, The Lord Is Good To Me

Moana, How Far I’ll Go

Peter Pan

o The Second Star To The Right

o Your Mother And Mine

Pete’s Dragon, Candle On The Water

Pinocchio, When You Wish Upon A Star

Quest For Camelot, The Prayer

Robin Hood, Love

Saturday Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love

Snow White

o I’m Wishing

o Some Day My Prince Will Come

o Whistle While You Work

o With A Smile And A Song

Somewhere In Time Theme

Star Wars, Princess Leia’s Theme (also in Return of the Jedi) Starlight Express

Tammy And The Bachelor,

Tammy Tell Me On A Sunday

The Bodyguard

o I Have Nothing

o I Will Always Love You

The Greatest Showman, This Is Me

The Lion King, Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Elton John) The Phantom Of The Opera

o All I Ask You

o Angel of Music

o Medley

o The Music Of The Night

o The Phantom Of The Opera

o Think Of Me

The Rose Main Theme

The Sound Of Music, My Favourite Things

The Wizard Of Oz, Over The Rainbow

Titanic

o My Heart Will Go On

o Medley

Up, Married Life

Ambience

Kleinstuber

o A New Day

o Summer Solstice

Ludovico Einaudi, Nuvole Bianche

Yiruma, River Flows in You

Pop/Country/Romantic

ABBA

o Mamma Mia

o Dancing Queen

A Great Big World, Say Something (and Christina Aguilera)

Adele, Hello

Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Andy Williams, Hawaiian Wedding Song (also by Elvis Presley in movie Blue Hawaii) Andrea Bocelli, Con Te Partiro

Andrew Lloyd Webber/Michael Ball, Love Changes Everything Beatles

o Across the Universe

o All My Loving

o All Together Now

o And I Love Her

o Can’t Buy Me Love

o Eight Days a Week o Eleanor Rigby

o For No One

o Get Back

o Girl

o Golden Slumbers

o Good Night

o Here Comes The Sun

o Here, There and Everywhere

o Hey Jude

o I’ll Follow the Sun

o I’m Happy Just To Dance With You

o I’m Looking Through You

o In My Life

o I Should Have Known Better

o I’ve Just Seen a Face

o I Will

o Let It Be

o Michelle

o Mother Nature’s Son

o Norwegian Wood

o Not a Second Time

o Nowhere Man

o Ob-la-di Ob-la-da

o Paperback Writer

o Penny Lane

o Rain

o She’s Leaving Home

o Thank You Girl

o The Long and Winding Road

o This Boy

o We Can Work It Out

o With a Little Help From My Friends o Yellow Submarine

o Yes It Is

o Yesterday

o You Won’t See Me

o You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

Beyoncé, Halo

Bob Dylan, Let It Be Me (also by James Brown and Cher) Bryan Adams, I Do It For You

Bruno Mars, Marry You

Callum Scott, You Are The Reason

Cat Stevens, Morning Has Broken

Celina Dion, My Heart Will Go On

Coldplay, Paradise

Cristina Perri, A Thousand Years (in the Twilight Saga movies) Dean Martin, Volare

Des’ree, I’m Kissing You (in movie Romeo and Juliet)

Don McLean, And I Love You So

Ed Sheeran

o Perfect

o Photograph

Elbow, One Day Like This

Ellie Goulding

o How Long Will I Love You

o Love Me Like You Do

Enya, Once You Had Gold

Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight

Evanescence, Bring Me To Life

Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, Mad World

James Arthur, Say You Won’t Let Go

John Legend, All of Me

Josh Groban

o To Where You Are

o You Raise Me Up

Kenny Rogers, Lady

Labi Siffre/Madness, It Must Be Love

Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven

Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

Louis Armstrong, What A Wonderful World

Magic, Rude

Minnie Riperton, Lovin’ You

Noel Paul Stookey, The Wedding Song

Petula Clark, My Love

Phil Collins, Against All Odds

Robbie Williams, Nicole Kidman, Something Stupid

Secret Garden, You Raise Me Up (also by Josh Groban and Westlife)

Shania Twain, From This Moment On

Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars

Stone Roses, Waterfall

Taylor Swift, Lover

The Association, Never My Love (also by The Fifth Dimension and Bryan Adams) The Righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody

Van Morrison, Moondance

Jazz

Misty

Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

All the Things You Are

Over the Rainbow

Embraceable You (Gershwin)

Beautiful Love

Etta James, At Last

Traditional

England

o Greensleeves

o Scarborough Fair

Ireland

o Brian Boru’s March

o Danny Boy

New Zealand, Pokarekare Ana

Scotland

o Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose

o O’er The Sea To Skye

o Ye’ Banks And Braes O Bonny Doon

Wales

o Across the Water to Llanstephan’s Beach

o David Of The White Rock

o My fanwy

o Sosban Fach

o The Ships of Caernarfon

o Watching the White Wheat

Happy Birthday

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

Cover (parasol or equivalent to protect from sun) for outdoor events.


Do you provide sound and lighting equipment?

I provide amplification.


What information do you require about a venue?

Are there stairs/staircases? What is access like? Is there free parking available?


Can you provide a Spotify/DJ service before and between your sets?

Yes, I can provide Spotify service if the booking includes amplification.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best gig you've ever done and the best venue you've ever played at?

I've done various gigs which I am proud of. Perhaps some of the most exciting ones might have been playing with an orchestra for Stormzy at a musical festival and playing for the Andrea Bocelli UK Tour!


Which artists have you been most influenced by, who is your favourite artist and what is the greatest song of all time?

I love so many types of music and I can't say I've been influenced by one specific artist as there's so many I admire.
To name a few: Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston.


What's your previous experience and how did you start gigging?

I started playing for weddings and events even before starting uni!


What's your favourite type of event to play at?

I love all kinds of events! At every event you get to meet different people and by sharing your music with them you get some interesting different feedback and some fun stories too!

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

I arrive to the venue 1 hour before I need to start playing.
The performance time can vary, depending on the nature of the event.

usually I would play for 50 minutes at a time. However, if it's a 1h booking, I would play for the full hour.


Are you happy to perform outside?

I am happy to perform outside as long as there's shade, it's a flat level surface and I wouldn't have to place the harp on grass as if there's been rain (even if on previous days), this could mean it might be muddy.


Do the clients have a say in what you play or is it a set repertoire list only?

I'm open to requests and happy for clients to choose which songs they want or don't from my list.


How do previous clients most commonly describe your performances?

Usually they are very positively surprised by the sound of the harp and the ambience it brings to the event.

Contact Now

Contact

If you have any questions for Zita (Harpist) or would like to make an enquiry, please click "contact now" below. You can also add this listing to your favourites and contact multiple listings at the same time.
Contact Now
View Favourites