Keri Zwicker

Keri Lynn Zwicker is a versatile musician who is sought after as a soloist, teacher and side musician in both Celtic and Classical realms. She holds an ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts with a focus in Ethnomusicology from the University of Alberta. 

Since 1997 she has maintained a busy teaching studio with the MacEwan Conservatory of Music and is one of only a handful of harp teachers in Canada to train in the Suzuki method. In 2023 she received a scholarship from the American Suzuki Institute to further her education at the institute held at Stephen’s Point University in Wisconsin.

Keri Lynn has acted as principal harpist with Saskatoon, Regina and Red Deer Symphonies and is second harp with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.  She has performed with almost every choir and musical ensemble in Edmonton including ProCoro, The Edmonton Winds, Cantilon Choir, Orchestra Borealis and Vocal Alchemy just to name a few. As a guest artist on the ESO’s Lighter classics series, she performed on both concert grand pedal and lever harps. Her full length symphony show, featuring Claude Lapalme’s orchestrations of her original music and traditional arrangements, has been performed in Alberta and B.C.

As one of Canada’s leading lever harpists, Keri Lynn has earned a solid reputation for her musicianship and stage presence while fronting her own trio, HarpRouge as well as performing as an integral member of David Wilkie’s Cowboy Celtic, a band that has toured extensively throughout North America, Ecuador, and Scotland. 

Keri Lynn is also a singer, composer and arranger of traditional music and her work features her Gaelic-styled vocals and imaginative, energetic interpretations of traditional Celtic material. She also performs Latin American harp music and with funding from an Alberta Foundation of the Arts grant, she studied Latin American repertoire and techniques with harp master Alfredo Rolando Ortiz in California. She has also independently released three CD’s; The Devil’s Mill (1997), Rich & Rare (2006) and Winter Ramble (2007).