Always Aspiring, Hoping to Inspire
Always Aspiring Hoping to Inspire
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Community Service
Story Time For Children
Story Time For Children
Story Time For Children
2024
As a volunteer, I love performing Christmas stories at Bright Beginings Childrens Center.
Inspiring
Story Time For Children
Story Time For Children
2023
During the holidays music helps to reduce anxiety and stress children and their families experience. Bright Beginnings Nonprofit,go to https://www.bbidc.org/
Encouraging
Encouraging
Encouraging
As a volunteer, my performances are always filled with passion and inspiration for young children.
Healing
Encouraging
Encouraging
The harp is a peaceful healing instrument for sick and shut in seniors in nursing homes an hospitals.
Community Service Fundraiser Please Donate
Empathy
I need your Help! Tariffs have increased the price of Instruments
Compassion
I love performing harp music for patients in the hospital, hospice or nursing homes. It is difficult to perform often due to the weight of a full sized harp.
Compassion
I need your Help! Tariffs have increased the price of Instruments
Compassion
Full sized harps are too big to carry into patient rooms. Therapeutic harpist use smaller lever harps. as seen in picture above to fit in the room
https://youtu.be/3yQzLrqT-O0?si=S-JyUAGNLB1qsIUW
I have volunteered since I was very young but I have to borrow a small harp.
I need your Help! Tariffs have increased the price of Instruments
I need your Help! Tariffs have increased the price of Instruments
I need your Help! Tariffs have increased the price of Instruments
Please support my goal to raise $4800 to purchase a smaller harp to perform therapeutic harp music at nursing homes and hospitals.
https://youtu.be/NX8q30fcxhk?si=GwIf7RgKRPfzIHcd
Empower Sarah to Serve others
Tariffs have pushed my goal farther away. The price of musical instruments has drastically increased.
Volunteering allows me to demonstrate my passion to serve children, the sick and shut in using my musical gift.
Demonstrating my passion has high esteem on my college application. Community service has a positive impact on acceptance to higher education institutions.
Please help me purchase a small Harp to return to providing music therapy in the hospitals and nursing homes.
Your contributions towards $4800 will enable me to meet my goal to return to performing at the hospitals, nursing homes and other community service engagements using a smaller harp to fit into the patient rooms.
A small harp is allowed to transport through out the nursing facility and in patient rooms. Working part- time I have placed a deposit of $1200 on a small harp and I need your help to bring it home, Your generous donation will add joy to a person who is convalescent, recuperating or in hospice.
The smaller harp is 44 lbs total weight, 12 inches shorter and 7 inches narrower to fit in patient rooms and easier transportation.
Donations may be made directly to Virginia Harp Center in Sarah Ramson's name.
You may contact the Virginia Harp center at:
14356 Sommerville Ct.
Midlothian , VA 23113
Phone: (804) 378-3761
or using ( Visa, MC, Discover or AMEX ) Button below.
Zelle c/o Sarah Ramson ( please contact me for phone number using the from below)
Personal check. (Please contact me using the contact form below.)
Thank you in advance ! If you have a local convalescing loved one in the hospital or nursing home, I would be honored to visit with my harp.
The young harpist journey
6 years old selecting my first harp.
Follow the young harpist journey
Sarah's First Harp
I decided at 6 years old that I wanted to play a harp. I had not touched a harp before this moment but instantly connected with the strings.
6 years old,
First performance
7 years old
Improving her technique on a lever harp
8 years old
My hard work earned a position with the Virginia AYPO (American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra) Harp Ensemble.
8.5 years old and still growing
9 years old
Self motivated
9 years old.
Barely touching the ground. Academically growing fast. I performed on the harp and piano at a charity luncheon fundraiser for a prominent music school at the Mayflower hotel .
10 years old.
Performing the Nightingale by Deborah Conant
11 years old.
Getting taller, performing using advanced techniques.
14 years old.
My how time flies !
Chanson De Mai by Alphonse Hasselman at the Strathmore on behalf of the National Philharmonic Orchestra Youth Mentorship program.
Age 15
Thank you to my harp teacher Robbin Gordon-Cartier who prepared me to work with my NOI mentor.
Harpist, Zora Evangeline, coached me during the 2024 summer National Orchestra Institute at Maryland University. The summer NOI provides coaching for me to polish the pieces that I started in February 2024, with my Nat Phil YMP mentor Harpist, Nadia Pessoa using the National Philharmonic YMP lesson bank.
I am performing Etude de Concert by Felix Godefroid for my final class performance. I would like to thank the NOI for providing the opportunity to perform on the Maryland University Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp. It was an amazing experience.
Honored to be the 2023 DC Middle School State champion & 2022 DC Girls State Champion
CRITICAL THINKING AND CURIOSITY ARE THE KEYS TO CREATIVITY.
Thank you to my community
The Society Incorporated
Thank you to the Potomac and Prince Georges County Chapters for providing grants and opportunities to perform that inspire youth to strive towards their musical goals.
The mission of the Society Incorporated is to help today's youth turn their creative talents into artistic opportunities for their future.
To support youth in the performing arts go to: https://www.thesocietyinc.org/
Washington Jazz Arts Institute
Thank you to Mr. Davey Yarborough, Mrs Esther Yarborough and the teachers at WJAI for providing support and a platform to perform Jazz on the Harp, Piano and Flute.
To donate go to: http://wjai.org/
Potter Violins
Eliminating Barriers to success.
Thank you to Mr. Jim Kelly, Mr. Dalton Potter and the team at Potter Violins for nominating me to the National Philharmonic Youth Mentorship Program hosted at the Strathmore
Please visit : https://potterviolins.com/
