Autumn Selover is a freelance harpist, improviser, and music educator based in Chicago. Her work ranges from solo, orchestral, and chamber to innovative works involving electronics, mixed media works. An advocate of new music, education, and community outreach, Autumn works with contemporary creatives from classical and non-classical backgrounds, and is continuously looking for new ways to expand the harp repertoire.
Recent highlights include sharing the stage with Alarm Will Sound with the Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble as part of the 2022 Mizzou International Composers Festival. Recent premieres include the world premiere of trio concerto Angelus Loci by Ben Zucker, commissioned for Sonder Trio by the Chicago Composers Orchestra, Glass Shards written by Oswald Huỳnh, commissioned for duo deaf rabbit at part of the Frequency Series, and Masks by David Clay Mettens at Constellation Chicago, and a Midwest premiere of Robert Maggio's The Woman Where We Are Living with Constellation Men's Ensemble and La Caccina as a benefit concert for the Alzheimer's Association.
Autumn is an active orchestral player and has performed with groups across the Midwest, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Minnesota Orchestra. She is an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago as well as an original member of Chicago’s premiere conductorless orchestra, Unsupervised. She regularly performs with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra and Fox Valley Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Chicago Composers Orchestra at the Thirsty Ears Street Music Festival.
In addition to large ensemble work, Autumn is a has toured with Fifth House Ensemble for live-score performances of the video game Journey. Autumn has recorded an experimental album with the sacred jazz improv group, Spiritus, and is a recording artist with Voic(ed) Project, an organization promoting new music by new, young, and underrepresented composers She also regularly plays the music of Nat King Cole with the Chicago’s King Orchestra.
As a private instructor of harp and piano, Autumn uses a variety of approaches with her students to nurture their individual musical voices. In addition to teaching classical technique and repertoire, she incorporates ear training, theory, and improvisation into her lesson structure. Autumn strives to find the methods which best complement each student's learning needs and goals to encourage their artistic development. In addition to offering private lessons, Autumn teaches at Music Conservatory of Illinois, Metzger's Music Studio, Barbereux School, and The People's Music School.
Autumn has been playing the harp for seventeen years and the piano for nineteen years. An alum of Northwestern University, she holds a B.M. and M.M. in Harp Performance having studied under Liz Cifani, Lynn Williams, and Sharon Crabbe.
Recent highlights include sharing the stage with Alarm Will Sound with the Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble as part of the 2022 Mizzou International Composers Festival. Recent premieres include the world premiere of trio concerto Angelus Loci by Ben Zucker, commissioned for Sonder Trio by the Chicago Composers Orchestra, Glass Shards written by Oswald Huỳnh, commissioned for duo deaf rabbit at part of the Frequency Series, and Masks by David Clay Mettens at Constellation Chicago, and a Midwest premiere of Robert Maggio's The Woman Where We Are Living with Constellation Men's Ensemble and La Caccina as a benefit concert for the Alzheimer's Association.
Autumn is an active orchestral player and has performed with groups across the Midwest, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Minnesota Orchestra. She is an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago as well as an original member of Chicago’s premiere conductorless orchestra, Unsupervised. She regularly performs with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra and Fox Valley Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Chicago Composers Orchestra at the Thirsty Ears Street Music Festival.
In addition to large ensemble work, Autumn is a has toured with Fifth House Ensemble for live-score performances of the video game Journey. Autumn has recorded an experimental album with the sacred jazz improv group, Spiritus, and is a recording artist with Voic(ed) Project, an organization promoting new music by new, young, and underrepresented composers She also regularly plays the music of Nat King Cole with the Chicago’s King Orchestra.
As a private instructor of harp and piano, Autumn uses a variety of approaches with her students to nurture their individual musical voices. In addition to teaching classical technique and repertoire, she incorporates ear training, theory, and improvisation into her lesson structure. Autumn strives to find the methods which best complement each student's learning needs and goals to encourage their artistic development. In addition to offering private lessons, Autumn teaches at Music Conservatory of Illinois, Metzger's Music Studio, Barbereux School, and The People's Music School.
Autumn has been playing the harp for seventeen years and the piano for nineteen years. An alum of Northwestern University, she holds a B.M. and M.M. in Harp Performance having studied under Liz Cifani, Lynn Williams, and Sharon Crabbe.
Photography by Hannah Samson.
