<p>Indiana is outstanding for Music in general.</p>
<p>I'm told that San Francisco must have a strong program as many are said to have left their harp in San Francisco.</p>
<p>With one exception, the well-known conservatories and music schools in large cities in the eastern US tend to split into either the Salzedo or Grandjany camp. Nearly all of the major harp teachers studied directly with Salzedo or Grandjany, or else with one of their better-known students. Salzedo taught at Curtis and Grandjany at Juilliard, so Philadelphia is definitely a Salzedo kind of town and NYC is Grandjany territory. </p>
<p>Other Grandjany schools include Indiana, Carnegie Mellon, Chicago College of Performing Arts (Roosevelt U), DePauw, Eastman, and Manhattan School of Music.</p>
<p>Other Salzedo schools include Boston University, Temple University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin, Northwestern, Rice University and New England Conservatory.</p>
<p>Peabody in Baltimore has a well-known teacher in each camp, with Jeanne Chalifoux (a student of Salzedo) as well as Ruth Inglefield (a Grandjany student.)</p>
<p>I am not very familiar with the schools out west.</p>
<p>BassDad gave you a good list of schools. My teacher growing up studied extensively with Salzedo, so needless to say I don't have any great French teachers to recommend beyond what BassDad said. Does your daughter do well with competition in general? Some competitive harp programs can be very cut-throat and stressful, so she should think about how much competition she wants to deal with (I'm going off stories from my teacher about her days in school with students sabotaging each other!). Roosevelt doesn't have the name recognition of many other schools, but their teacher is the principle for the Chicago Symphony. It's also in Chicago, so she can rent a harp from Lyon & Healy if she wants to keep her harp at home. It sounds like a little point, but it would be a pain to get a harp back home for Christmas (assuming she'd like to play and gig during that time) and summer. Many schools with harp programs have harps available for students. I'm off topic here, but she should consider whether she wants to rent a harp, bring her harp from home, or use the school's. </p>
<p>I think the best thing she can do is first look at schools online and then contact the harp teacher when visiting the school. It would be worthwhile to arrange for a "sample" lesson if possible (you may have to pay for this time); your daughter is going to be spending a lot of time with this teacher, and though you can't tell everything from a one time lesson, your daughter may get positive or negative feelings about it. She should ask about what the harp students generally do upon graduation and compare that to what she wants to do with the harp after school (commercial work, symphony, pit orchestra, teaching, recording, or likely some combination). She also needs to consider whether she wants to get a BA in addition to a BMus degree, in which case she should also look at schools that fit her academically and offer a combined degree program. </p>
<p>You will likely get more and better responses by posting on the forum at harpcolumn.com. They will probably want to know a couple pieces she is studying.</p>
<p>Here is a list of schools with varying harp programs that your daughter can read and think about: <a href="http://www.harpmall.com/colleges_and_universities.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.harpmall.com/colleges_and_universities.htm</a>.</p>
<p>Coarranged, you really opened my eyes. I never imagined all those sweet harp sounds could come from cut-throat competitors. I can see them garotting each other around the neck with their harp strings. Who knew?</p>
<p>Haha Consider the fact that there is usually only one harpist per orchestra, a limited number of major orchestras in the world, and only occasional harpists at the age of retirement, and you have some serious competition!</p>