Biography

Megan Humphries is an award-winning young harpist based in London and Yorkshire who has performed across the United Kingdom in venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and The Barbican. A regular performer for social events, she has played at events like London Fashion Week, at venues like Leeds Castle and Spencer House and for names like the Duchess of Gloucester, the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu and Jacob Collier.

 

An impassioned orchestral player, Megan has played under the batons of celebrated conductors, including Sir Mark Elder, John Wilson, and Kirill Karabits. Recently, she recorded with the world-famous Black Dyke Brass Band, played with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and she regularly works alongside multiple London and Yorkshire orchestras. Working in the pit, she has also performed in productions such as Wagner's Ring Cycle, Guettel’s A Light in the Piazza, Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and worked with new composers to premiere new operas.

 

As well as her orchestral playing, Megan is a keen chamber musician, leading her to perform several premieres, working with renowned composers and arrangers such as Skaila Kanga, Chris Marshall and Paul Patterson. A notable highlight of her chamber music career includes a performance at Wigmore Hall with one of her ensembles, The C String Trio, among many performances with multiple ensembles in a range of events, including the Northern Aldeburgh Festival, Regent’s Hall and the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers' livery dinners.

 

In 2025, Megan was chosen as one of just four Open Academy Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music, where she is working in community and participatory music around London, including work with Wigmore Hall, City of London Sinfonia and At St Martin in the Fields in projects working with a huge variety of people from nursery-age children to people living with dementia to the homeless community.

 

Megan was announced as the Mrs Sunderland Huddersfield Young Musician of the Year 2024, and in 2020, she was announced as one of the Pendle Young Musician’s Bursary winners. She’s very grateful for their ongoing support.

 

Megan was a Royal Academy of Music scholar for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies, where she studied with Suzy Willison-Kawalec. She previously studied with Claire Jones, former harpist to HRH Prince of Wales and best-selling Classic FM artist.

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Please contact Megan for her CV (general, orchestral&ensemble, and teaching CVs available)