Mia Theodoratus is an adventurous sound maker who plays harp and ancient Greek lyre. She studied at the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of the Arts.
Her musical life is varied: psych-folk bands that played CBGB, Coney Island High and Pink Pony; improvising groups such as the Go Organic Orchestra at Central Park SummerStage and Optipus at the Whitney Biennial, MoMA and dirty basements; and classical performances at Carnegie Hall.
Favorite performances include Life Ball in Vienna, Glamour Club in Shanghai and a concert by invitation of President Barack Obama.
Her current love is playing period music on dital and single-action harps and bringing them into non-classical venues. Another is bringing the words of the poet Sappho alive with her lyre and prerecorded tracks.
She teaches harp at Sarah Lawrence College and the Irish Arts Center, is president of the Metro Harp Chapter of the American Harp Society, and founded the NYC Harp Orchestra.
With Buddy Woodward at the old Knitting Factory, Leonard St., NYCLeonard St. Knitting Factory with Josh Mathews and Daniel CarterPlaying with Kenar, NYCHowl Festival, Tompkins Square Park, NYCArt Loft with Daniel Carter, TriBeCa NYCCitizens Band, NYCFairy concert, NYVanity Fair Ports 1961 fashion show, NYCDeitch Gallery Art Parade, TriBeCa NYCDeitch Gallery Art Parade, TriBeCa NYCChinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island, NYAdam & Mia, NYC. Photo: Lyndsy WelgosChaos & Candy, Henry Street Settlement, NYCUnderground Art Party with Hanuman Sextet, NYCBaroque Disco, Galapagos, DUMBO, NYCAdam & Mia, Art Party, Los AngelesUnderground party, Brooklyn, NYHow a Harp Works, Nerd Nite, Galapagos, DUMBOStudio photo, Bushwick, BrooklynChaos & Candy, The Box, NYCOld Greenpoint, Brooklyn waterfrontWilliamsburg, BrooklynMcCarren Park Pool (before renovation), my band VardoPhoto shoot, Hillary CharlesPhoto shoot, Hillary CharlesThe Cooler, Meatpacking District, NYCHowl Festival dance piece, NYCDance piece, West End, NYC, CharmaPhoto shoot, Hillary CharlesLower East Side, NYCIn concert for St. Patrick’s Day, Washington, DC, with President ObamaPhoto shoot, Lary 7Photo shoot, Lary 7Playing with beatnik rocker Marykate O’Neil, NYCDueling Harps, Ann Magnuson & Adam DugasDueling HarpsLife Ball, Vienna, AustriaSt. Marks Place, NYCHermès fashion show, NYCSet for Two Sisters performance art piece, NYCPrepared Erard harp performance, Toronto, CanadaBathroom at Max Fish, NYCDanse Macabre pour la Harpe Médiévale et Électronique, Microscope Gallery, NYCStage setup for Danse Macabre performance art piece, NYCFun with a historical dital harpDital harp at Bartow-Pell Mansion in the BronxHistorical single-action and dital harp concert, NY“Dueling Harps” at REDCAT, in the Los Angeles TimesGeorge Reed 1873 harp concert at the Boston Early Music FestivalThe Citizens Band, The Trepanning Opera, Deitch ProjectsWith George Clinton and Bootsy Collins at NAMMImprovisation at the waterfront (still from an audience video)Postcard for “Apache” and “Misirlou”, at the Haines Shoe HouseElectric harp. Photo: Lary 7
