The HarpCore 4(HC4) were featured artists at the Midwest Harp Festival held in Tulsa, Oklahoma in July and were enthusiastically received. Formed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while performance majors in the U of I harp studio, the group now of Julia Kay Jamieson, Charles Lynch, Claire Happel, and Erin Brooker-Miller perform original arrangements of pop and rock music for harps+ more (kazoos, Irish dancing, etc.).

http://music.illinois.edu/news_items/harpcore-4-makes-100-plus-strings-go-pop

Stephanie Gustafson has won the Principal Harp audition with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra in August 2015. She previously won the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra principal harp position in May 2014. She graduated from U of I Harp Program with her BMus degree in 2011.