Biography

Leah Jorgensen is a professional harpist, vocalist, and music educator based in Brenham, Texas, bringing together the rich traditions of classical and Celtic harp with a lifelong love of sacred, popular, and traditional music.

 

A native Texan with a deep connection to Scotland, Leah is equally at home playing a classical concert harp or the Scottish clàrsach, often adding her own Texas perspective to the music she performs.

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Leah has more than three decades of professional performance experience across orchestral, theatre, sacred, Celtic, and festival settings. Her career has taken her to stages throughout Texas and beyond, including the Country Playhouse, McGonigel's Mucky Duck, the Grand 1894 Opera House, Texas Renaissance Festival, Sherwood Forest Faire and Celtic Festival, and numerous churches and community events. She has performed for distinguished audiences including Lady Margaret Thatcher and Patty Duke, conducted under the direction of John Rutter, performed with the band Kansas, and sang backup for Lee Greenwood.

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While classical and sacred music have long been central to Leah's musical life, her love of Celtic and Scottish music eventually led her to pursue the clàrsach in greater depth. In 2020, she began intentionally redirecting her musical career toward Scottish traditional harp, studying the repertoire, ornamentation, accompaniment styles, and traditions of the instrument. That journey ultimately took her to Glasgow, Scotland, where she lived and worked for four years while continuing to perform, teach, arrange music, and become part of Scotland's traditional harp community.

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During her years in Glasgow, Leah performed at concerts and community events, participated in traditional music sessions, played on the streets of Glasgow city centre, and contributed to the work of The Clàrsach Society. She served as Secretary of the Glasgow Branch and led workshops on her own arrangements of traditional Scottish music. Her time in Scotland deepened her appreciation for the cultural traditions surrounding the clàrsach and continues to influence the way she approaches Celtic music today.

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Now back in Texas, Leah is bringing that experience home. Based in historic Brenham—the birthplace of Texas—she performs and teaches across a wide range of musical styles, including religious and sacred music, classical, Celtic and Scottish traditional music, and popular music. She enjoys creating music for churches, weddings, concerts, community events, private gatherings, and other occasions where the distinctive sound of the harp can add something memorable.

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Leah teaches piano, voice, harp, and preschool music, drawing on decades of experience working with children, families, beginning musicians, and advanced students. Her teaching background includes Kindermusik for children from six months through six years of age, private and group instruction in piano, voice, harp and general music, and extensive work with children's choirs and church music programs. 

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A Texan by birth, a Scot-at-heart, and a lifelong harpist, Leah Jorgensen continues to connect the musical worlds she loves from Scotland to Texas, from the concert stage to the church, and from the clàrsach to the classroom.