New York Irish Center
Irish Piano Class

Irish piano-melody & accompaniment with colin harte
$165 for 8-week semester
tuesdays @ 8 pm

This course introduces piano students to performing Irish traditional melodies on the piano and how to accompany (vamp) Irish traditional music. This live instruction online class is intended for students who already play the piano but are new to playing Irish traditional music (beginner-intermediate). The class will be meeting via zoom to play and discuss music. Students will need to have a keyboard for class. Email Colin cfh745@gmail.com for more information.

about colin harte

Colin Harte earned his PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Florida’s School of Music, where he founded and performed with the UF Irish Traditional Music Ensemble. He earned his Masters in Educational Leadership from CUNY-Hunter College in 2018; his Master’s in Ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick; and his Master’s in Education from CUNY-Lehman College while teaching band, general music and percussion ensemble.

He currently teaches ethnomusicological courses for CUNY-Music/Irish Studies. He also teaches a world music curriculum for the NYCDOE in the north Bronx where he directs a 60 student West-African/Afro-Latin percussion ensemble, piano lab, world music courses, and music technology courses with the school recording studio. As a pianist, bodhrán player, and world music percussionist, he is active in the New York jazz, Latin and Irish traditional music communities. He wrote An Bodhrán: Experimentation and Innovation, which was published in May 2020 with the University of Tennessee Press.