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Biography
Anya's innate ability to add elevation, elegance, and heartfelt musical touches to any event naturally places her as a leading harpist in her field. With a rigorous background of classical music training under some of the world's most notable harpists, Anya is a multi-skilled musician who demonstrates flexibility, command, and ease in a wide variety of musical settings.
Anya can be found performing all across Southern California and beyond, playing live harp music for romantic proposals + weddings, teaching harp students across a wide range of levels and ages, playing on stage with large symphony orchestras, performing for intimate dinner parties and relaxing receptions in locations such as the beautiful hills of Bel Air + Beverly Hills, laying down harp tracks in Los Angeles recording studios, and collaborating with artists across a wide variety of genres.
Background
Anya Garipoli is an accomplished freelance harpist based in Los Angeles, California. She regularly provides live harp music for a variety of events, including proposals, weddings, receptions, dinner parties, recording sessions, harp lessons, religious + memorial services, orchestra concerts, and more.
Anya has been a featured harpist in several large-scale commercial projects, working with companies that include Target, Apple TV, Prime Video, and HGTV.
Anya has worked with and performed alongside numerous iconic TV and film composers, including country and pop singer Diane Warren, John Powell (STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie), Michael Giacchino (Society of the Snow), Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (Barbie), Bear McCreary (Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power), Anthony Willis (Saltburn), Joseph Shirley (Creed III), Brian Tyler (Yellowstone), Stephen Barton (Star Trek: Picard) and more.
Anya is a dedicated harp teacher, currently running her own private harp teaching studio, both locally in Pasadena and online.
Orchestral Experience
When she is not playing for private events or teaching harp students, Anya can often be found performing with symphony orchestras in concert halls all across the country. Anya is a highly experienced orchestral player and chamber musician who has been invited to perform with both national and international orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the LA Opera, the Phoenix Symphony, the Deadline Hollywood Orchestra, the Juneau Symphony, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Oakland Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, MUSE/IQUE, and numerous summer Festival orchestras. She has performed in some of the best concert halls in the country, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, Canada, and the Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa.
Early Years
An accomplished solo harpist from an early age, Anya has been a winner of several prominent harp competitions across the country. Her accolades include: successfully competing against 53 other harpists to be named winner of the 2019 Lyon and Healy Awards Competition in Chicago, winner of the 2016 Anne Adams Awards Competition of the American Harp Society, after which she was invited to perform at the American Harp Society’s 41st national conference, and First Prize winner of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Harp Society’s annual competition.
Previous Positions
+ Appointments
Anya previously served as the Principal Harpist of the Venice Symphony Orchestra from 2021-2024 until deciding to relocate fully to Los Angeles. Anya was an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago from 2021-2023, the 2019-2021 Harp Fellow for the Music Academy of the West Academy Festival Orchestra, and was
a substitute harpist with the New World Symphony in Miami for numerous years.
Education
Anya has studied with some of the best harpists in the country, beginning her studies at the age of eight with Barbara Biggers in her home state of New Jersey. She continued her studies with Elizabeth Hainen, Principal Harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Professor of Harp at the Curtis Institute of Music, until she moved to Michigan to finish her high school studies at Interlochen Arts Academy, where she was a student of Joan Holland.
Anya is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, where she earned her Bachelor of Music studying with acclaimed solo harpist Yolanda Kondonassis.
Anya received an Artist Diploma in 2023 and a Professional Studies Certificate in 2025 from the Colburn Conservatory in downtown Los Angeles, where she studied under the tutelage of JoAnn Turovsky, renowned Hollywood film score harpist and Principal Harp of the LA Opera and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.