
Welcome to my website. I am a freelance harpist for hire working throughout the Greater Chicago area. I hope you'll find many of the answers to your questions here, but please feel free to contact me directly about adding a harp player to your event!
(312) 860-4997
reneewilsonharp@gmail.com
(312) 860-4997
reneewilsonharp@gmail.com
Hear Me Play!
All of the videos samples you see on the site are from my YouTube channel. While the channel is focused on wedding clients, many of the selections there are helpful for other events as well. Please click on the link below to visit my channel:
About Renee
I am classically trained, and hold a Master of Music Performance degree, but I love playing in many different styles of music! I am a proud member of the Chicago Federation of Musicians (local 10-208), and also the Principal Harpist of the South Bend Symphony. It would be a privilege to help you plan live music for your event.
Price List
Every job is different, but I do have a set of general prices to give you an idea:
~Two hours of background music $400; additional hours $100 each
~Wedding ceremony $400; additional cocktail hour (in same location) $100
~Surcharges for parking and moves within the venue, if needed
~Two hours of background music $400; additional hours $100 each
~Wedding ceremony $400; additional cocktail hour (in same location) $100
~Surcharges for parking and moves within the venue, if needed


Wedding Ceremonies and Receptions
Weddings are a constant joy in my schedule! They have such particular needs that I have a website just for my wedding clients at:
www.ChicagoWeddingHarpist.com
Please click the button below if you're interested in wedding music!
www.ChicagoWeddingHarpist.com
Please click the button below if you're interested in wedding music!
Video Samples From My YouTube Channel
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Background Music
Whether your event is a cocktail hour, a baby shower, or a holiday gathering, I likely have specialized repertoire that will surprise and charm your guests. You can select your own playlist from my repertoire lists, or leave it to me.
Examples of Specialized Repertoire:
Holiday music
Bollywood music
Disney and other childhood favorites
Irish music
Bollywood music
Disney and other childhood favorites
Irish music


Funerals
It is always an honor to play for families that are celebrating the lives of their loved ones. I have an entire website devoted to helping you decide if harp music would be right. Please click on the button below to visit my funeral website.
Repertoire Lists
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Contemporary (Popular) Music
Open or CloseAll I Ask of You
Again (Janet Jackson)
All of Me (John Legend)
All You Need is Love
Almost Like Being in Love (Brigadoon)
Angel (Sarah McLachlan)
Angel of Music
Ashokan Farewell
A Sky Full of Stars (Coldplay)
A Thousand Years
A Time for Us
At Last
Beauty and the Beast
Be My Baby (The Ronettes)
Bewitched (Pal Joey)
Bless the Broken Road
Blue Bossa
Bring Him Home
Buongiorno Principessa
Can't Get Started With You
Can't Help Falling in Love
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Castle on a Cloud
Caught Up in the Rapture (Anita Baker)
Cavatina
Cheek to Cheek
Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
Color My World
Dangerously in Love (Beyonce)
Despacito
Dites Moi
Doe Eyes
Dream (Pricilla Ahn)
Ebb Tide
Edelweiss
Embraceable You
Endless Love
Eternal Flame (Bangles)
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
Falling Slowly (Once)
Fields of Gold
Final Fantasy (Prelude)
Fireflies
The First Day of My Life (Bright Eyes)
Flightless Bird/American Mouth
Game of Thrones Theme
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Hallelujah
Halo (Beyonce)
The Heather On the Hill
Here Comes the Sun
Hotel California
Here There and Everywhere
How Deep in Your Love (Bee Gees)
Ice Cream (Sarah McLachlan)
I Choose You
If I Fell
The Inner Light (Star Trek Next Generation)
In My Life
I Get a Kick Out of You
I Got It Bad
I Got You Babe
I Have Dreamed (The King and I)
I'm Yours (Jason Mraz)
In My Room
Into the West
Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)
It Might As Well be Spring
I Will
I Will Follow You Into the Dark (Death Cab for Cutie)
Kiss From a Rose
La Paloma Azul
La Vie en Rose
Love is Here to Stay
Love Story (Taylor Swift)
Make You Feel My Love
The Man I Love
Marry Me (Train)
Marry You
May the Force Be With You (Star Wars)
Memory
Misty
Moon River
The Music of the Night
Married Life from "Up"
My Cherie Amour
My Funny Valentine
My Hero (Foo Fighters)
My Heart Will Go On
My Way
Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
One Hand, One Heart
Only Time (Enya)
Over the Rainbow (Dorothy and Iz versions)
Perfect (Ed Sheeran)
Photograph (Ed Sheeran)
The Prayer
Pure Imagination (Willy Wonka)
Rainbow Connection
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Ribbon in the Sky
River Flows in You (Twilight)
Scarborough Fair
Save the Best For Last
September (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Send in the Clowns
Singing in the Rain
A Sky Full of Stars (Coldplay)
Someone to Watch Over Me
Somewhere (West Side Story)
Somewhere in Time
Somewhere Only We Know
Stay With Me
Storybook Love (from "The Princess Bride")
A Summer Place
Surfer Girl
Summertime
Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns N' Roses)
Sweet Love (Anita Baker)
Take It to the Limit (Eagles)
Terrapin Station (Grateful Dead)
That's All
The Wind Beneath My Wings
They Were You
Think of Me
A Thousand Years
Til There Was You (The Music Man)
Time in a Bottle
Tonight Tonight (Smashing Pumpkins)
Try to Remember
Time to Say Goodbye
True Colors
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison)
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)
Unchained Melody
Under the Boardwalk
The Velocity of Love
Watermark (Enya)
The Way You Look Tonight
What a Wonderful Wold (Armstrong)
(What a) Wonderful World (Sam Cooke)
What the World Needs Now is Love
When I Fall in Love
When I'm 64
Wildest Dreams (Taylor Swift)
The Wind Beneath My Wings
Wonderful Tonight
You Are the Sunshine of My Life (Stevie Wonder)
You've Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story) -
Classical Music
Open or Close
Adago from "Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)
Air from "Water Music" (Handel)
Air on the G String (Bach)
Allegro Maestoso (Handel)
All in a Garden Green (Playford)
Arioso (Bach)
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
Ave Verum (Mozart)
Barcarolle (Offenbach)
Biano Fiore (White Flowers; Negri)
Claire de Lune (Debussy)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Caro Mio Ben (Giordano)
Come Ye Sons of Art (Purcell)
Concerto in B flat (Movement 1, Handel)
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Gluck)
Emperor Waltz (Strauss)
First Gymnopedie (Satie)
Flower Duet (Delibes)
The Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Debussy)
I Love You so (Lehar)
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
Largo from "The Four Seasons" (Vivaldi)
Mai (Faure)
Meditation from "Thais" (Massenet)
Merry Widow Waltz (Lehar)
Musetta's Waltz (Puccini)
Nocturne (Mendelssohn)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
O Mio Bambino Caro (Puccini)
On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn)
Pie Jesu (Faure)
Prelude #1 (Bach)
Raindrop Prelude (Chopin)
Romanza from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
Sleeper's Wake (Bach)
Sonata en Re (Albeniz)
Song to the Moon (Dvorak)
The Swan (Saint-Saens)
Theme from "Jupiter" (Holst)
To a Wild Rose (MacDowell)
Va Pensiero from Nabucco (Verdi)
Villa Song (Lehar) -
Bollywood Music
Open or CloseChori Chori Chupke Chupke
Dil Diyan Gallan
Janam Janam
Jashn-E-Bahara
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
O Re Piya
Pee Loon
Pehla Nasha
Tere Bina
Teri Meri
Tum Hi Ho -
Christmas Music
Open or CloseHoliday Songs that Don't Reference a Particular Holiday
Frosty the Snowman
Jingle Bell Rock
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells in Waltz Time
Happy Holidays
Home for the Holidays
Let it Snow!
March of the Toys (from "Babes in Toyland")
Skating (from "A Charlie Brown Christmas")
Winter Wonderland
Holiday Songs About Santa and Christmas
All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
Believe (from "Polar Express")
Carol of the Bells
The Chipmunk Song
The Christmas Song
Deck the Halls
Christmas Time is Here (from "A Charlie Brown Christmas")
Feliz Navidad
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Here We Come A-Wassailing
I'll Be Home for Christmas
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
A Holly Jolly Christmas
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Merry Christmas, Darling
O Christmas Tree
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Baby
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
Silver Bells
Up on the Housetop
We Need a Little Christmas (from "Mama")
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
White Christmas
Classical Holiday Music
Evening Prayer (from "Hansel and Gretel")
Arabian Dance (from "The Nutcracker" ballet)
March (from "The Nutcracker" ballet)
Waltz of the Flowers (from "The Nutcracker" ballet)
Hanukkah Music
Chanukah O Chanukah
Hanukkah, Hanukkah
I Have a Little Dreidal
Menorah Memories
My Dreydl
Ner LI
Oh Hanukkah
Rock of Ages
Sevivon
Yodim Atem
Holiday Songs About the Birth of Christ
Angels and Shepherds
Angels We Have Heard on High
As Lately We Watched
Away in a Manger
Baloo Lammy (Scottish Carol)
Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella
The Christ Child's Lullaby (Hebridean Tune)
Coventry Carol
Ding Dong Merrily on High
The First Noel
Jesu Bambino
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
Good King Wenceslas
Hark the Herald Angels sing
He is Born (Il eat Ne)
The Holly and the Ivy
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
In the Bleak Midwinter
I Wonder as I Wander
I Saw Three Ships
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Joy to the World
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
The Little Drummer Boy
Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming
Neopolitan Carol
Noel Nouvelet
Pat a Pan
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Once in Royal David's City
O Holy Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Personent Hodie
Silent Night
Still, Still, Still
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
We Three Kings
What Child is This?
What is This Fragrance?
What Shall I Give?
While By My Sheep