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LAURA LOGAN completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Harp Performance in 2002 at Texas Tech University, where she was a recipient of the distinguished DeVitt-Jones Fellowship in Music. A native of New Orleans, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Harp Performance from Louisiana State University in 1986 and a Master of Music in History and Literature from Texas Tech in 1988. She began her harp studies in New Orleans with Helen Maxwell. Undergraduate study was with Hye Yun Chung and graduate work was under the direction and mentorship of Professor Gail Barber. Logan has made her home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1990.
She is founder and director of the Octavia Harp Ensemble, a performance group of eight professional harpists from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The ensemble has released two recordings on the Traditional Sounds label and has commissioned and premiered several new works for harp ensemble. Octavia has been featured in recital at both regional and national conferences of the American Harp Society. Logan performs frequently with several Dallas area orchestras and is in high demand as a free-lance harpist in the area. She is Principal Harp with the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, a position she has held since 1990. She also served as Principal Harp in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic (1995-1997) and has played second harp numerous times with the Fort Worth Symphony, the Fort Worth Opera and with The Dallas Opera, where she was privileged to perform the entire Wagner Ring Cycle.
Logan has been the honoree of two commissioned works for harp and organ: Passacaglia by Joel Martinson was premiered in 1995 and Legend by Charles Callahan was premiered in 2000. In addition to her duties as Instructor of Harp at TCU, Logan maintains an active private studio, teaching both Suzuki and traditional students. She is founder and director of the popular HarpFire summer camp, established in 2001. Logan is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, Pi Kappa Lambda, Suzuki Association of the Americas, North Texas Suzuki Association and the American Harp Society, where she currently serves as Vice-President of Student Events for the AHS in Dallas chapter.
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