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Deanne attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she was a student of Marilyn Costello and Judy Loman. She completed her M.Mus.
as a student of Sarah Bullen at Roosevelt University in Chicago and has also worked with Susan McDonald, Nancy Allen and Alice Chalifoux in masterclasses and lessons.
As harpist with the Curtis Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago she performed with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, John Adams, Yuri Temirkanov, at the
Verbier Music Festival. She was the principal harpist of the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami under Michael Tilson Thomas. She has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and her native
South Africa, as a soloist and chamber musician. Deanne has performed at two World Harp Congresses and has made recordings of chamber music and solo repertoire. Deanne has been actively involved in
performing music of contemporary composers and has given premieres of several new works for harp, both in concerts and on recordings.
Currently Deanne is a graduate student in the Earth
Sciences Department of Carleton University where she is working on argon thermochronology, uranium-lead geochronology and metamorphic petrology in relation to structural and tectonic problems in the Monashee
Mountains of British Columbia.
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