Holland Hettinger Denny - at Brigham Young University she was a Harp Performance Major and studied with Nicole Brubaker Brady. She previously studied with Susann McDonald and Naoko Yoshino at Indiana University, and Elena Mashkovtseva in San Diego. Holland has been principal harpist in ten community and university symphonies since high school, and has played under the direction of David Effron, Kevin Noe, Cliff Colnot, and Robert Gilson. Holland is also an experienced solo and chamber musician, winning music awards from the Barta-Lehman Musical Scholarship fund and North County Music Scholarship Federation, and being recognized as a Star of the Future by BRAVO San Diego. In 2010, prior to her MMF scholarship, Holland was a finalist in the Young Artists Harp Competition.