Cynthia Valenzuela

Cynthia Valenzuela (born in 1964) is a Mexican harpist of Celtic music and singer. She is the first harpist playing the metallic Celtic harp. She also plays the tallest playable harp conceived and made by Juan Manuel González. She began playing harp at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico when she was a teenager and she song as soprano at the Conservatory Choir. She had won the New York BMI student composer Award in 1988, the SESAC Composition Award at the Society of Composers Inc. The First Prize - for three consecutive years - at the Grand National Irish Fair Harp Competition, Second Prize at the National Jazz Harp Festival and an MTV Award Short Film for writing the music of the best short film 1990 by Eric Darnell. She accompanied the renowned Celtic harpist Alan Stivell during a concert in Mexico in 2001 to the Festival of the Tajín. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.