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Phala Tracy

Harp Teacher SAA Member

Phala Tracy teaches Suzuki harp at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, MN and she is adjunct harp faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. She has taught at the Colorado Suzuki Institute, Utah Suzuki Harp Institute, Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute, the Duluth Suzuki Fall Festival, the SEMSA “Gasshuku” and the Lyon & Healy International Jazz and Pop Harpfest. A Suzuki trained musician herself, she grew up studying with Mary Kay Waddington in Denver, CO. She holds degrees in Harp Performance and Music History from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM 1999) where she studied with Alice Chalifoux and Yolanda Kondonassis. She also holds degrees in Harp Performance and Composition from the California Institute of the Arts (MFA 2003) where she studied with Susan Allen and James Tenney.