Christina Tourinis
a second generation harpist, who began playing harp at the age of four.
She received Music and Education degrees from the University of Vermont
and also studied harp at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at
McGill University in Montreal. As an International recording and
touring artist, she has concertized extensively. She is an active
workshop organizer and has been instrumental in the revival of the folk
harp since the early 1970's. In 1982 she founded the Scottish Harp
Society of America and is the Founder and Director of the International
Harp Therapy Program established in 1995. Healing with sound, working
in hospitals and hospices, the labyrinth, composing, teaching, and
writing books round out her full life.
While in England, a
vision of her future work with the harp appeared to her. Combining her
experiences, having served as a volunteer for many years in hospitals
and hospices; having studied Counselling/Psychology and Resonant
Kinesiology; participating at the National Colloquiam on Sound and
Healing, Christina knew from then that her energies would be going into
bringing harp players and the medical community together to learn about
the beneficial aspects of music and healing. Thus, the International
Harp Therapy Program was born. The program is now based in San Diego
with an affiliation with the San Diego Hospice after being a travelling
program in Florida, Vermont, and Oregon. Modules of the program also
are held in England during the summer.
