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Amanda Whiting
Jazz harpist
About Me
Welsh harpist Amanda Whiting has very
quickly established herself as an essential
part of the UK jazz scene.
With her classical training, she has carved
out her own unique sound following in the
paths forged by Ashby and Coltrane.
Touring extensively with her own band as
well as previously with Matthew Halsall,
Chip Wickham, DJ Yoda and Rebecca
Vasmant, she endlessly delivers immense
beauty and depth from the stage. Her
Cheltenham Jazz set 2023 was BBC Radio
6’s Cerys Matthews’ “highlight of the
festival…Extraordinary. An astonishing
musical mind.”. Add to that three incredibly
successful albums (“highly recommended”
by Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2) for the
legendary Jazzman record label and a
nomination for Instrumentalist of The Year
at the Jazz FM awards and you get a picture
of a hugely important talent.
In November 2023, Amanda released two
albums; a remix album of Lost in
Abstraction out on Albert’s Favourites and a
collaboration with Don Leisure on her new
label First Word Records. Her new solo
album “The Liminality of Her” will be out in
March 2024.
Amanda currently teaches Jazz harp at the
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,
Cardiff and Royal Birmingham
Conservatoire. As a composer she has 23
pieces on Trinity Music College Exam
syllabus, as well as having a prestigious
Harp Column Studio.
My Jazz Story
I love jazz because...It makes me feel alive!