Services

Weddings • Business Events • Shows/Orchestra • Holiday Parties • Church Services
Funerals – Memorials • Retirement Parties • Bridal Showers

Live music is a lovely and versatile addition to your special event. This versatile instrument also adds an elegant decorative touch to any wedding, corporate event, private party, funeral or banquet. Click on “The Harp” to see this handsome instrument up close. Susan Knapp Thomas is a highly experienced professional who has performed with world renowned singers, bands and orchestras for more than 25 years. She is known for customizing music to suit your personal taste, setting your event apart from others. Ms. Thomas is a dedicated musician who realizes that attention to details is a necessary part of every event. She continually makes every effort to see that all music for your event is handled with the utmost professionalism.

Ms. Thomas’ service fees include a private consultation with you or your client to determine how to best suit your needs. Ms. Thomas’ consultations are held at her home (or by text, phone or email) where she can play or recommend selections from a vast repertoire of popular and classical music and discuss the fine points of timing and placement. If you prefer ensemble, harp and flute is an elegant and familiar combination. For a fuller sound, harp, flute, and cello are also available. Ms. Thomas has also worked with violinists, vocalists, organists, and trumpeters. If you would like to custom design an ensemble, anything is possible.

Also available…

  • Solo Harp
  • Apolline Harp and Flute Duo
  • Harp, flute and cello
  • Harp combinations with trumpet

The following list is only a small sampling of the music in my repertoire.
Please feel free to contact me with any other musical requests you might have in mind.
 
SONG LIST – CLASSICAL
 
Canon in D by Pachelbel
Here Comes the Bride

Trumpet Voluntary

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Sheep May Safely Graze
Air on a G String
Wedding March from “Sound of Music”
“Air” from Handel’s Water Music
St. Anthony Chorale
 
SONG LIST – POPULAR
 
A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
At Last – Etta James
Blackbird – Beatles
Fireflies
Hallelujah – L Cohen
Marry Me – Train
Perfect – Ed Sheeran
Take the A Train – Duke Ellington
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
When I’m 64 – Beatles
 
RECESSIONALS
 
Trumpet Tune
Ode to Joy

Bridal Recessional from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Entrance of the Queen of Sheba

Concerto in Bb for harp, by Handel

“Allegro” from Sonata in D Major (J. Parry)

Spring” from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”
Rondeau (Masterpiece Theater theme)
Hornpipe, from Handel’s “Water Music”
 
Additional Jewish, Jazz Standards, Pop, Show Tunes and Classical available upon request.
 
Also available…

  • Solo Harp
  • Harp and Flute
  • Harp, flute and cello
  • Harp combinations with trumpet
  • Open House
  • Holiday Parties
  • Church Services
  • Retirement Parties
  • Bridal Showers

Music to Soothe the Living…and Commemorate the Deceased


Live harp music is an elegant and calming enhancement to any funeral, wake, or memorial service. The calming sounds of the harp dually serve to soothe the bereaved and peacefully celebrate the life of the deceased.
 
Selections include:

  • “Going Home” from Dvorak’s New World Symphony
  • Simple Gifts
  • Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus”
  • Faure”s “Pavane”
    …and many other
     
    Services:
  • Funeral or memorial service in churches, synagogues, private homes.
  • Background music in funeral homes.
  • Background music for wakes, receptions, and funerals.
     
    Harp and other instruments also available:
  • Flute, harp, & cello
  • Flute & harp
  • Harp and violin
  • Your selection…including vocal