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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 completed 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 music 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. The ensemble has appeared on many recital series locally and throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana and has also been featured entertainment for such high profile events as Crystal Charity Ball, the Dallas Opera Gala, Beaux Arts Ball and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Gala.
Logan performs frequently with several metropolitan area orchestras and is in high demand as a free-lance harpist in the area, collaborating recently with Orpheus Chamber Singers and Turtle Creek Chorale. She looks forward to playing The Nutcracker every Thanksgiving with the Lewisville Lake Symphony and Lake Cities Ballet. Logan held the position of Principal Harp with the Richardson Symphony Orchestra from 1990 - 2010. For many summers during that time, she enjoyed returning to New Orleans to play Principal Harp with the acclaimed Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre. 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 and Director of the TCU Harp Ensemble at Texas Christian University, Logan maintains an active private studio, teaching both Suzuki and traditional students. She has completed Suzuki Harp School Teacher Training through Book Three with Mary Kay Waddington and Delaine Fedson. Logan is founder and director of the popular HarpFire summer camp, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2010 and draws students from all over Texas and Oklahoma.
Logan is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Kappa Phi, Suzuki Association of the Americas and the American Harp Society. She is a long time board member of the AHS in Dallas chapter and has served numerous times as Chair of the AHS in Dallas Student Scholarship Competition.
Logan considers her most significant lifetime achievement to be her two sons, Ethan and Luke, who have fallen asleep to the sound of harp music their entire lives and never once complained.
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