Gloria Galante

Jazz Legacy Harpist, Professor, and Humanitarian

Versatile and dynamic as a performer, deeply committed to teaching the community and using the harp as an instrument of healing, Gloria Galante is inspiring.

She has played the harp for On Demand! senior programs, concerts, teas and celebrations for many years. Gloria is a classically trained harpist, playing the great composers works: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, but it is her love of jazz that inspired and distinguished her career as a harpist.

Gloria has toured worldwide performing Jazz, Classical, Latin, African and Pop genres. She has appeared with such great stars as Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, Jose Feliciano, Luther Vandross, Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Cecil Bridgewater, Fred Vandenberg, Warren Oree, Monnette Sudler to name a few.

Gloria’s Seasonal Programs for any Holiday

1. Christmas, Passover, Kwanza and Soltice harp style

2. Cupid and the Harp - Valentine Program

3. Irish harp music- the music of O’carolan

4. Easter Spring Songs

5. History of Mother’s Day and Songs on Harp

6. My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Father’s Day music on harp

7. Summertime 

8. Autumn - Four Seasons on Harp

9. Thanksgiving and Gratitude on Harp

Gloria is the Principal Harpist of the Moog Endorsed Group the Divine Hand Ensemble. Equally dedicated and experienced as an educator and performing artist, Professor Galante is the founder of the Wells School of Music Harp Program at West Chester University, PA . The harp program is in its thirty third year. She is the director of the WCU Harp Ensemble and Community Harp Ensemble, Musicopia ensemble leader, and serves on the prestigious PA Council of the Arts as a teaching artist.