Tara Minton
No one who hears Tara Minton perform walks away untouched. She has that strikingly rare entwinement of harp and voice, but in Tara’s case there’s something more at work: a talent made to plumb depths and scale heights. To see her live is to witness an overflowing of musicality and truth, spilling forth from strings and lips, a siren song that speaks directly to the human soul.
When she first arrived in London, in 2011, Tara had already performed many seasons as harpist for Melbourne Opera, released a solo EP and had returned to her old University as a visiting guest Musical Director. Not bad for an artist so young in her career. Oh, and she carried with her an endorsement from the legendary French harp makers “Les Harpes Camac”, bestowed upon her by their director, Jakez François. Tara now plays the Camac “Big Blue” resulted from their singular lunch meeting in Lygon St, Melbourne, during which Jakez prophesised: “Your success is the harp’s success.” How right he was.