Faye Seeman has been recognized as one of the most versatile harpists in the Midwest. She is the principal harpist of the Chicago Sinfonietta/ Joffrey Ballet Orchestra. Along with her recent featured performance of Ravel’s “Introduction and Allegro” with the Chicago Sinfonietta, she is a regularly featured guest soloist with orchestras around the Midwest and The United States. Her commissioned concerto for harp “Como un Sueno”, by Gustavo Leone, has been performed often since its inception in 2006 . The work is dedicated to her father, violinist/conductor Ernest Seeman. Faye is the founder of the “Kithara” flute, cello and harp trio, and has since published many of her arrangements for the group through Lyon and Healy Harps West. The “Kithara” trio has produced two CD’s , “Beau Soir” and “Kithara Wonderland”, and has been heard in recital at major venues in Chicago and the Midwest, including the Chicago Cultural Center “Sunday Salon Series”, the Dame Myra Hess recital series, and the Community Concert Series. They were regularly featured guest artists in channel WTTW “30 Good Minutes”. Faye is on the faculty of the Birch Creek Music Festival in Door County, Wi, a summer music festival which provides talented youth advanced orchestral training while performing publicly alongside top professionals. She was guest clinician for her third year at the Pacific Harp Institute in Seattle , Wa with artistic director Alison Austin and harpists Judy Loman, and clinician for her first year with the Midwest Harp Festival in Tulsa, OK. Her new group, the “ZigZag” Jazz Harp Quartet recently recorded “Caught”, a CD featuring compositions by pianist Kelly Brand and Faye Seeman. Jazz standards and free improvisation are also highlights of the CD. One specialty of the CD features an improvised solo harp cadenza from the concerto “Como un Sueno”. The work has now been performed throughout the US, and has been remixed in a jazz format for the ZZ4. She is Adjunct Professor of Harp Studies at Wheaton College and Northern Illinois University and holds a Master of Music degree from Boston University where she studied with Lucile Lawrence, and is a registered member of BMI and the American Federation of Musicians.