Tara will perform works by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Luzzaschi, Carolan and Purcell on the Italian baroque triple harp alongside her own contemporary folk compositions on traditional Irish harp.

Hailing from the Beara Peninsula in the South-West of Ireland, Tara Viscardi performs on Irish traditional, classical and baroque harps. A graduate of the Royal College of Music, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado Milan and TU Dublin Conservatoire, Tara was first prize winner of the 2021 London Camac Harp Competition and is a 2024 UK Harp Association Emerging Artist. Solo and chamber performances have taken her across Ireland and the UK, to venues including the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, the Irish Embassy, Irish Cultural Centre, London Irish Centre, Canterbury Cathedral, Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Concert Hall Dublin.

She has been featured playing her own arrangements and compositions on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ Lyric FM, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, BBC Radio Ulster, Radio Kerry and Bloomsbury Radio. Further highlights include performing at the 13th World Harp Congress Hong Kong, for Irish President Michael D. Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin, for An Taoiseach and An Tánaiste upon their visits to London and for HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Hillsborough Castle. She launched her debut album 'Beara' in April 2024, where she is joined by flautist Robert Harvey for her own compositions paired with music written and collected on the Beara Peninsula since the 18th century. She released a debut EP, 'Uncovered Roots' in 2023 with saxophonist Robert Finegan, which explores folk music from Ireland and the UK in different contexts and is currently part of early music ensemble Nobody's Jig and folk group MNÁ as well as collaborating with countertenor Hugh Cutting.

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Each year the UKHA committee selects three soloists or ensembles at the beginning of their careers to take part in a collaborative concert series. With support from the UKHA, these artists will work together to curate, plan and perform nine concerts across the UK.

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