ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:
Tara Viscardi

Harpist Tara Viscardi presents a solo recital at Dublin HandelFest 2025, where she will explore keyboard and vocal works by Handel, arranged for the Italian baroque triple harp, alongside early music from Ireland, England and central Europe. The strength of Handel's connections to Dublin sit at the centre of this programme, leading to musical pathways which stretch across Europe.

 

An IBO Associate Artist for 2025, Tara Viscardi hails from the Beara Peninsula in the South-West of Ireland and performs on Irish traditional, classical and baroque harps.

 

Praised for her music being ”exquisitely performed” (The Times) Tara was 1st prize winner of the 2021 London Camac Harp Competition. A graduate of the Royal College of Music, she has performed all over Ireland and the UK, in major venues such as Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall. She’s been featured on BBC Radio 3 and RTÉ Radio; She performed at the 13th World Harp Congress Hong Kong, for The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins; also for HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Hillsborough Castle.