Stephanie lives in the Los Angeles area,
where she composes, records and produces her own
CDs, composes and produces
music which has been heard on television shows such as BONES,
MURPHY BROWN, PARTY OF FIVE and THE SINGLE GUY, and on the feature
film A TIME FOR DANCING; writes musical arrangements
for other artists (including arrangements for rocker Ozzie
Osbourne, Native American flute player Golana, Celtic fiddler Mary
Barton, Celtic harper Julie Mondin, and New Age ensemble Midnight
Skye). She
composes chamber
music which has been performed
by ensembles such as "Entr'amis" (classical harp, flute and viola
trio), Redlands University
faculty, and "Campanile",
(renowned contemporary handbell ensemble).
Stephanie plays harp on soundtracks for
movies and television, and plays harp on recordings by many other
artists (including Adele, Beck,
the Dixie
Chicks, Sir
Paul McCartney, Josh
Groban, Lee Ann Rimes, Lamb,
Linda Ronstadt,
Everlast,
Good Charlotte, Miyuki
Nakajima, and Ray
Conniff); teaches harp
students, and writes lyrics which have been recorded by other
vocalists, as well as writing music for other vocalists. She has
toured with groups as diverse as R&B legend Bobby
Womack, big-band Ray
Conniff Singers &
Orchestra, Persian singing star Dariush,
Mexican superstars Vicente
& Alejandro Fernandez, and
Canadian band Cowboy
Celtic.
She has also appeared (playing harp) onscreen
in television, movies and music videos, including The
Voice, American
Idol, Dancing with the Stars,
Ellen, THE
SWEETEST THING with Cameron
Diaz, Celine Dion's 1998 Christmas special, 1999 hit movie THE
OTHER SISTER (with Diane Keaton, Juliette Lewis and Giovanni
Ribisi); LOVE AFFAIR with Warren Beatty, GYPSY with Bette Midler,
COBB with Tommy Lee Jones, the FRANK SINATRA mini-series, A
ROMANTIC CHRISTMAS by John Tesh, more music videos including
Trisha Yearwood and Aerosmith,
and television shows including BONES
and MURPHY BROWN.
Stephanie Bennett's recordings are heard on
many American radio shows including the syndicated shows ECHOES
and MUSICAL STARSTREAMS, as well as on many overseas radio
stations.
Stephanie Bennett began studying the harp as
a junior high school student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after having
studied some guitar and piano as a child. She continued her
studies of classical harp performance with Ruth Dean Clark at the
University of Michigan, where she also studied composition with
Pulitzer Prize winning composers Leslie Bassett and Ross Lee
Finney. While in college she also began exploring creating her own
arrangements of popular music. She continued her music
studies at the Dick Grove School of
Music and at UCLA Extension, with
courses in Advanced Modern Harmony (including jazz and pop music
harmony), Arranging, 20th Century Harmony, Film Scoring, etc.
She was the first prize winner in the second Salvi
International Competition of Jazz & Pop Harp held in Santa
Barbara, California.
