Stephanie Curcio grew up in New York City where she attended the High School of Music & Art, the Mannes College of Music, Marymount College, and Fordham University. Her degrees include a B.A. and M.A. in music (harp and piano), and psychology (human learning).

In 1969, she and her family came to New England to join the faculty of the University of New Hampshire where she taught harp until January 2003. Stephanie has played extensively both as a soloist and with symphonic, choral and theatrical groups throughout New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts. Through her efforts, interest in the harp grew from a few students into what is currently one of the largest harp communities anywhere. In addition to the University and her private students, who range from age 5 to adult, Stephanie has also taught harp at Phillips Andover Academy and St. Paul's School as well as Phillips Exeter Academy. She has chaired and developed the harp events at the New Hampshire Highland Games, served as Vice President of the American Harp Society-Boston Chapter, and often presents harp workshops and seminars around the country. Her writings on affairs of the harp have been featured in the American Harp Journal and the Harp Column magazine.

Though trained with Lucille Lawrence and Carlos Salzedo, Stephanie has studied many harp techniques including European (Grandjany), Russian, and celtic thus developing a unique style of her own which is powerful yet warm, expressive and flexible enough to allow for differences of physical attributes, harp size, varieties of string tension, etc. To Stephanie, technique is a vehicle through which one expresses music - not an end unto itself. She believes that harp study must include how to play, combined with ear training and a solid understanding of music theory, history, style, and notation. To this end, she developed the STUDENT HARPIST tutorial series with its companion works, SIGHT READER, PRIMER, NEW READER, the CUE CARDS, STAGE ONE and STAGE TWO series of progressive materials for harp.

In 1986, she launched Stephanie Curcio Publications (SCP) whose extensive catalog contains solo and ensemble arrangements as well as original compositions that are recognized both nationally and internationally. Recently, SCP has grown to include a new line of harp accessories including the highly acclaimed Harp Porter dolly and a wide array of accessories made by New Hampshire's own Luanne O'Reilly. .

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