Art Moves: Gaye Leblanc at OKC MOA

Harpist, Gaye Leblanc, will be at OKC Museum of Art with Art Moves on November 15th from 12-1 PM. Come enjoy the performance on your lunch break!

Artist Bio: Ms. Gaye LeBlanc is currently the principal harpist with the OKC Philharmonic and has been with them since 1998. She has also performed as principal harp with Lawton Philharmonic, Tulsa Symphony and Opera, Arizona Music-fest and the Amici New York orchestra at OK Mozart Festival. Ms. LeBlanc has also performed concertos with Fort Smith Symphony AR, Lawton Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Community Orchestra, and most recently with the OKC Philharmonic with the Hannah Lash Concerto last May, 2021. As well as performing, teaching is also her passion. Ms. LeBlanc is currently the Visiting Assistant Harp Professor at the University of Oklahoma since 1998 where she teaches harp, harp ensemble, harp orchestral literature, harp pedagogy and two classes of Understanding Music. In 2022, she was most recently hired as harp faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Sewanee, TN. She has taught harp at the University of North Texas, Oklahoma City University , Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and her own summer harp camp, Harp Oklahoma Workshop for the last 7 years. Before making Norman, Oklahoma her home, Ms. LeBlanc was principal harpist in several ensembles in the Dallas regional area: Richardson Symphony, Irving Symphony, Plano Chamber Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, Abilene Opera, Turtle Creek Chorale, Dallas Orpheus Chamber Singers, Shreveport (LA) Symphony and Pine Bluff (AR) Symphony. She was also chosen to travel Europe for six weeks as principal harpist with the North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms. LeBlanc has recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Singers, Octavia Harp Ensemble, and recently finished her second Naxos recording of the William Grant Still Symphonies (with the Fort Smith Symphony in May 2015. Ms. LeBlanc is a graduate of the University of North Texas where she began her harp studies at the age of 20 after many years of piano, organ and flute. She also received her Masters of Music in Harp Performance at Southern Methodist University. More extensive training consisted of two summers at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and five summers at the Salzedo School with Alice Chalifoux. In her spare time, Gaye likes to spend time with her dogs Luke and Ellie or binge watch various shows.