Mayetta Im Harpist from Missouri City, TX

Mayetta Im is an experienced harp performer who love to play a wide range of repertoires, from classical and popular music, including pop, rock, jazz, and classical-crossover that is played with passion and emotion in any occasion. Mayetta Im started to learn harp at about 15 at the Macau Conservatory. Her first harp teacher is the former harp principal of Macau Orchestra, Ms Lee Li Chun. Ms. Im joined the Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra as harp principal since 2009 and started to study with Dr. Teresa Suen, harp faculty of Carleton University in Ottawa. She has perfromed in many well-known venues with the Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra, including the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Smetana Hall in Prague, Lake Garda in Italy and concert halls in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and more. She was later admitted by University of Houston with scholarship and started to study with the harp principal of Houston Symphony and faculty of Rice University, Ms Paula Page, and graduated in 2011. Ms. Im has been served as the principal harpist at the Moores Opera House since season 2011 and has also played with Corpus Cristi Symphony, Texas Medical Center Orchestra and symphony orchestras of both University of Houston and Rice University. Besides winning the first place of Milligan Harp Competition in 2012, she also joined numerous music festivals such as Texas Music Festival, Marrowstone Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival and many others. She just finished her master degree in music performance at Northwestern University with form harp principal of Chicago Lyric Opera, Ms Elizabeth Cifani, who has offered her the largestest sum of scholarship ever among the harp studio there.