It was acting that brought me to the harp, and the harp that has taken me to London to act,” Nicole says. Her travels with the harp in the worlds of music and theatre have taken her from the streets of Brisbane to busking in Portobello road in London, the Globe Theatre and the British museum. She has played for audiences on castle walls in Budva, Montenegro overlooking the Adriatic ocean, where she performed in plays by Shakespeare. In 2006, Nicole worked with Kanye West in the “Late Registration” Tour. Her recent performances include working with Christine Johnston in “Myrtle by the Water” for the Kids’ Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery. Nicole has performed extensively in south-east Queensland, including several performances at the Woodford Folk Festival. She now owns four harps. The smallest is a portable folk harp. The largest is a ¾ Classical style folk harp made by master harp builder, Brandden Lassells. Her most recent acquisition is a five octave chromatic renaissance Harp made by Mark Blessley of Oregon, USA. It is a fully chromatic harp, without pedals of levers. In July of 2005 Nicole travelled to the International Society of Folk Harpers and Harp Makers Conference in Montana, USA, on an individual professional development grant from Arts Queensland in order to learn more about this extremely rare and difficult instrument. Here she had a master class with Harper Tasche, one of the world’s leading exponents of folk cross-strung harp. Nicole plays a wide variety of music with selection from her own compositions inspired by both ancient and contemporary musical styles.

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