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Alison Attar - Performer
Mary Stolper and Alison Attar delivered supremely focused advocacy Sunday night in Evanston. Rarely will one hear as fluent and even a partnership in this work, the two women clearly possessing both the Mozart sensibility and the lithe bravura necessary for the rapid-fire give and take. Their easy rapport was consistently manifest with skillful balancing of lines and unanimity of phrasing... the harpist was unfailingly nimble and didn’t drop a single note. Stolper was simply sensational, with her tonal purity, liquid virtuosity and unerring rhythmic touch virtually faultless. With a first-class Mozartian like Glover conducting, tempos and balancing were beyond reproach in a winning performance that proved a highlight of Music of the Baroque’s season.— The Chicago Classical Review's Lawrence A. Johnson reviewed a performance of the Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp with Chicago's Music of the Baroque, Mary Stolper, flute, March 2010

Collaborations

Principal Harp

Bella Voce/Bella Voce Sinfonia, Chicago IL 2015-present
Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Chicago IL 2009-present
Chicago Philharmonic, Chicago IL (shared position) 1993-present
MusicNOW, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago IL 2000-2019
Contemporary Chamber Players/Contempo, Chicago IL 1995-2015
Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago IL 1998-2011

Second Harp and/or Substitute Principal Harp

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville FL 2006-present
Grant Park Orchestra, Chicago IL 1996-present

Baroque Harp

Boston Baroque, Boston MA 2001-2017
Handel & Haydn Society, Boston MA 1996-2015
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco CA 1997-2011

Limited Engagement

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Birmingham, England 2013
Midsummer’s Music Festival, Door County WI 2005
Opera Lafayette, Washington D.C. 2002
Carnegie Weill Hall, New York NY 1994

Other

Lyric Opera, Chicago IL – Banda and Assistant Principal Harp 1993-present
Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago IL – Baroque and Substitute Principal Harp 2000-2015
Music of the Baroque, Chicago IL – Baroque and Principal Harp 1993-2010

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