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:
It's Easy to Add Beautiful Holiday Harp Music to Your Event!
I have over 4 hours of holiday music to choose from, everything from "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", to "Angels We Have Heard on High", to "My Dreydl". You can see all of my holiday repertoire at the bottom of this page in a drop down menu. I have a YouTube channel where you can hear me play holiday music, but here are a couple of my newer videos to get you started:
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 $450; additional hours $100 each
~Wedding ceremony $450; additional cocktail hour (in same location) $125
~Surcharges for parking (if not provided by venue), certificate of insurance for your venue ($25), moves within the venue ($25), and difficult locations ($50)
~Two hours of background music $450; additional hours $100 each
~Wedding ceremony $450; additional cocktail hour (in same location) $125
~Surcharges for parking (if not provided by venue), certificate of insurance for your venue ($25), moves within the venue ($25), and difficult locations ($50)
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
Here are a couple of my newer videos to get you started!
Golden Hour - JVKE
Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift
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.
Programs for Seniors
I offer hour long harp solo programs for seniors. I have a variety of music, and themes can be adjusted to fit all occasions! Some examples include:
History of Classical Music
American Popular Music
Love Songs for Valentine's Day
Irish Music
Sacred or Secular Christmas Music
History of Classical Music
American Popular Music
Love Songs for Valentine's Day
Irish Music
Sacred or Secular Christmas Music
Repertoire Lists
Most of my standard repertoire is listed below. Please click on the category you are interested in to reveal the list. If you don't see something, contact me to see if it can be added!
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Contemporary (Popular) Music
Open or CloseAin't No Mountain High Enough
All 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
Chapel of Love
Cheek to Cheek
Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
Color My World
Dangerously in Love (Beyonce)
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
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
Golden Hour (JVKE)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Hallelujah
Halo (Beyonce)
Have I Told you Lately That I Love You
The Heather On the Hill
Here Comes the Sun
Hotel California
Here There and Everywhere
How Deep in Your Love (Bee Gees)
How Long Will I Love You (Ellie Goulding)
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)
I Won't Give Up (Jason Mraz)
Kiss From a Rose
La Paloma Azul
La Vie en Rose
Love is Here to Stay
Lover (Taylor Swift)
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 Girl
My Hero (Foo Fighters)
My Heart Will Go On
My Way
Nothing Compares 2U
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
Razón De Vivir (Mercedes Soto)
Ribbon in the Sky
Ripple (Grateful Dead)
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
Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)
Stand By Me (Kingdom Choir/royal wedding version)
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're My Best Friend (Queen)
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)
Fur Elise (Beethoven)
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)
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
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
Mitwa
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 -
R and B
Open or CloseAgain (Janet Jackson)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
All of Me
Always and Forever
At Last
Caught Up in the Rapture
Dangerously in Love
Endless Love
Family (Dreamgirls)
Halo
Here and Now (Luther Vandross)
I Believe in You and Me (Whitney Huston)
If I Ain't Got You (Alicia Keys)
I Have Nothing (Whitney Houston)
I'll Be There
It Might Be You (Roberta Flack, Waiting to Exhale)
Kiss From a Rose
Like A Star (Corinne Bailey Rae)
Marry You
Misty
My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder)
On the Wings of Love
One in a Million You (Larry Graham)
Overjoyed (Stevie Wonder)
Ribbon in the Sky
Save the Best for Last
September
Share My Life (Kem)
Suddenly (Billy Ocean)
Sweet Love (Anita Baker)
This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)
Under the Boardwalk
We're in This Love Together
(What a) Wonderful World (Sam Cooke)
When I Fall in Love
You Are the Sunshine of My Life -
Irish
Open or CloseAe Fond Kiss
Arran Boat Song
At the Yellow Boreen
Avenging and Bright
Banish Misfortune
The Battle of Aughrim
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Bendemeer's Stream
The Blackbird
Bonnie at Morn
The Bonnie Lass O'Bon Accord
Captain Sudley (Carolan's Dowry)
Carolan's Dream
Carolan's Welcome
Carrickfergus
The Castle of Dromore
Chanter
The Cliffs of Moher
Cockles and Mussels
Coilsfield House
Come Rest on This Bosom
The Cruiskeen Lawn
Danny Boy
The Dark Isle
Dark Woman of the Mountain
The Dear Little shamrock
Down By the Salley Gardens
Eleanor Plunkett
Fairy Dance Reel
The Fanaid Grove
Fanny Power
Farewell But Whenever You Welcome the Hour
Farewell to Liverpool
The Flight of the Earls
The Foggy Dew
The Gartan Mother's Lullaby
The Gentle Maiden
Give Me Your Hand
Good Night
Have You Seen My Sweet Coolin
Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded?
I Know My Love
I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
It Chanced When I Was Walking
The Kerry Dance
Killarney
Lady of Knock
The Lark in the Clear Air
The Lark in the Morning
Leather Buttons
Limerick is Beautiful
Mairi's Wedding
March of King Laois
Martin Wynnd's Air
Merch Megan
The Mist Covered Mountains of Home
Morgan Magan
My Dearie
My Wild Irish Rose
My Yellow-Haired Lad
O'Donnell Aboo
Off She Goes
The Ould Plaid Shawl
Over the Hills and Far Away
The Parting Glass
Rights of Man
Road to Lisdoonvarna
The Rose of Tralee
Rosin the Bow
Roving Galway Boy
The Selkie
Shule Aroon
The Snowy Breasted Pearl
The Song of Fionnuala
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra
Wandering Willie
The Waterfall
When Irish Eyes are Smiling