Amanda Whiting

Classically-trained Welsh jazz harpist and educator. Biography: Amanda started classical harp at the age of six and at sixteen was awarded a specialist scholarship to Wells Cathedral School. She gained her BMus with Caryl Thomas at Cardiff University, and her master’s in jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has since become a freelance harpist all over the world; from recitals in London’s Southbank to Jazz festivals in Hamburg, Johannesburg and Belgium to name a few.