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Kennedy Center featured five historical harps on one program of which the Washington Post said, \"Fulton drew from all of them a serene and delicate sound... remarkable instruments which Fulton played with total skill and reverent affection.\"\n\nShe earned a BS degree in pedal harp, and an MM and DM in early music/historical harp/musicology from the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University, Bloomington where during her graduate work she was a dedicated student of Thomas Binkley. Dr. Fulton is a contributing scholar for the latest edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and authored a chapter for A Performers Guide to Medieval Music (IU Press, 2000). She was awarded the Burton E. Adams Prize for Academic Research for her doctoral thesis on the history of the triple harp. In 1987 she received a Fulbright award for research and performance in Lisbon, Portugal and while there served as principal harpist for Portugal's leading orchestra, the Orchestre Gulbenkian.\n\nShe has performed with many distinguished early music ensembles including Voices of Music, Ensemble Alcatraz, The Galax Quartet, El Mundo, Anonymous 4, Sequentia, American Bach Soloists, American Baroque, The Boston Camerata, Camerata Mediterranea, Chanticleer, etc. She served on the faculty for the Amherst Early Music workshops for over twenty-five years and was the first Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Music Workshop. She is the founding President of the Historical Harp Society and is Director for the HHS 2015 Conference.\n\nA versatile recording artist, she can be heard on over thirty albums and soundtracks broadly ranging from medieval, baroque, orchestral, and contemporary music to Celtic music and film scores, on major labels including PolyGram, Deutche Harmonia Mundi, Koch International Classics, Nonesuch, Erato, Dorian, Gourd Music, and others. Her first solo album, The Airs of Wales, brought her recognition and acclaim as a \"genuine virtuosa of her instrument.\"\n\nShe founded and directs the medieval harp choir Angelorum and they are currently working on a recording of the music of Hildegard von Bingen with Karen Clark and Varja Voices.\n\nDr. Fulton is on the faculty of The Thornton School of Music at USC. She is a highly sought after teacher of her Touch and Tone Technique for Harp and has a private studios in the San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, El Sobrante and Los Gatos, and also teaches via Skype.\n\nWhen she is not harping she is playing with, training and showing her two Belgian Tervuren dogs or out riding her two Arabian horses on the trails in the East Bay hills.\n\nYou can find out more about Cheryl on her website.", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/fulton1.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/fulton/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "fulton-harpsinthetrees", "name" : "Angelorum - The Harps in the Trees", "artist" : { "name" : "Cheryl Ann Fulton", "page" : "fulton" }, "release_date" : "2017-10-27", "genres" : ["World","Classical","Medieval","New Age"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Cheryl%20Ann%20Fulton/Angelorum%20-%20The%20Harps%20in%20the%20Trees/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/fulton-harpsinthetrees/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/fulton-harpsinthetrees", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=fulton-harpsinthetrees" },{ "sku" : "fulton-harpersholiday", "name" : "A Harper's Holiday in Wales", "artist" : { "name" : "Cheryl Ann Fulton", "page" : "fulton" }, "release_date" : "2015-12-03", "genres" : ["World","Classical","Folk"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Cheryl%20Ann%20Fulton/A%20Harper's%20Holiday%20in%20Wales/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/fulton-harpersholiday/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/fulton-harpersholiday", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=fulton-harpersholiday" },{ "sku" : "fulton-once", "name" : "The Once and Future Harp", "artist" : { "name" : "Cheryl Ann Fulton", "page" : "fulton" }, "release_date" : "2004-05-10", "genres" : ["World","Classical","Chamber Music","New Age"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Cheryl%20Ann%20Fulton/The%20Once%20and%20Future%20Harp/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/fulton-once/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/fulton-once", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=fulton-once" },{ "sku" : "fulton-airs", "name" : "The Airs of Wales", "artist" : { "name" : "Cheryl Ann Fulton", "page" : "fulton" }, "release_date" : "2004-05-07", "genres" : ["World","Classical","Chamber Music","New Age"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Cheryl%20Ann%20Fulton/The%20Airs%20of%20Wales/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/fulton-airs/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/fulton-airs", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=fulton-airs" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. 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