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  • Piano
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Always Aspiring Hoping to Inspire

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African American Harpist


https://youtube.com/shorts/JCZDmCefvJY?si=m8W4dkDDL-OPtPZy

Happy Holidays

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Sarah Ramson is an African American Harpist, Pianist, Golfer and Chess player inspiring Youth Creativity

2025 Recipient of Mayor's Arts Awards for Youth Creativity

Thank you to my community who keep me encouraged to work hard.

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.

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/xl5pBUCDXBk?si=rAH0xzfELC08oXGc

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

https://youtu.be/ke2eNpOI8ek?feature=shared 

As a volunteer, my performances are always filled with passion and inspiration for young children.


https://youtube.com/shorts/lGgr7OVFDIo?si=gEDYknJBp29PNNKP

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

Compassion

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.

https://youtu.be/HQoV_qRjORA?si=O7h3qLpmEfFR0kZV

Compassion

Compassion

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.

Fundraiser for Community Service

Donate to Brighten a smile

Donate to Brighten a smile

Donate to Brighten a smile

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. 

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 $1500 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.

I need your support

Donate to Brighten a smile

Donate to Brighten a smile

The smaller harp is 44 lbs total weight, 12 inches shorter and 7 inches narrower to fit in patient rooms and easier  to carry. 

Donations  may be made directly to Virginia Harp Center in Sarah Ramson's name. 

You may contact the Virginia Harp center at:

virginia@vaharpcenter.com

14356 Sommerville Ct. 

Midlothian , VA 23113

Phone: (804) 378-3761

https://www.vaharpcenter.com/

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 onvalescing loved one locally in the hospital or nursing home, I would be honored  to visit with my harp.

Make someone smile

Your support and contributions will enable me to purchase a small harp to continue to play therapeutic music in nursing homes and hospitals.

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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

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. 

Sarah's Downloads

autumn leaves harp (mp3)Download
take 5 harp (mp3)Download
blue bossa harp (mp3)Download
misty harp (mp3)Download
If it's Magic on harp (mp3)Download

Cultural history months are not cancelled !

Heritage month celebrations are important to teach and learn about cultural history and to examine the way in which various cultures are viewed within American communication. It is important to celebrate cultural heritages and to examine how these groups are continually oppressed in 2025.  It is important to frame the way we understand “American” identity. Native Americans, Hispanic, African , Arab and Asian Americans all shape American identity and collectively make up American history.

I Embrace My Passion

I am Inspired by Everything

I Embrace My Passion

I uncovered my passion for golf during my first lesson with my dad. 

Live Life in music

I am Inspired by Everything

I Embrace My Passion

I am following my dream to perform and inspire other children to be their very best self.

I am Inspired by Everything

I am Inspired by Everything

I am Inspired by Everything

I find inspiration all around me.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind

    Honored to be the 2023 DC Middle School State champion & 2022 DC Girls State Champion


    CRITICAL THINKING AND CURIOSITY ARE THE KEYS TO CREATIVITY.

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    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/



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