The World Harp Congress Vision:
- Promote the performing arts with special emphasis on harp composition, education, appreciation and performance.
- Sponsor an international harp congress with exhibits every three years.
- Encourage young harpists; in particular through the Focus on Youth concerts at each congress.
- Establish international communication by publishing the World Harp Congress Review twice a year with a network of correspondents throughout the world.
- Ensure support of the harp through the World Harp Congress Phia Berghout Endowment Fund.
- Provide opportunities to promote the harp and support harpists of all levels throughout the world for better mutual understanding, support and friendship.
World Harp Congress, Inc.
Founder: Phia Berghout, The Netherlands
Founding Chair: Ann Stockton, USA
Founding Artistic Director: Susann McDonald, USA
Founding WHC Review Editor: Linda Wood Rollo, USA
Chair Emerita: Patricia Wooster, USA
Founding Committee
- Phia Berghout, The Netherlands
- Mario Falcao, Portugal/USA
- Kumiko Inoue, Japan
- Marcela Kozikova, Czechoslovakia
- Susann McDonald, USA
- Sylvia Meyer, USA
- Robert A. Ouimette, USA
- Lucile Rosenbloom, USA
- Deane Sherman, USA
- Ann Stockton, USA
Members of the Corporation of the World Harp Congress
- Daphne Boden, United Kingdom
- Alexandre Bonnet, The Netherlands
- Cliona Doris, Ireland
- Mario Falcao, Portugal/USA
- Mercedes Gómez, Mexico
- Kumiko Inoue, Japan
- Mieko Inoue, Japan
- Kathy Kienzle, USA
- Sheila Larchet Cuthbert, Ireland
- Susann McDonald, USA
- Isabelle Perrin, Norway/France
- Lieve Robbroeckx, Belgium
- Natalia Shameyeva, Russia
- Ernestine Stoop, The Netherlands
- Helga Storck, Germany
- Karen Vaughan, United Kingdom
- Linda Wood Rollo, USA
- Patricia Wooster, USA
- Ann Yeung, USA
- Elena Zaniboni, Italy
Board of Directors
- Chairman: Kathy Kienzle, USA
- Artistic Director: Isabelle Perrin, Norway/France
- Associate Artistic Director: Karen Vaughan, United Kingdom
- Vice-President: Alexandre Bonnet, The Netherlands
- Vice-President: Mieko Inoue, Japan
- Vice-President: Mercedes Gómez, Mexico
- Secretary: Ann Yeung, USA
- Treasurer: Karen Lindquist, USA
- Editor, WHC Review: Isabel Moretón Achsel, Germany
- Elizaveta Alexandrova, Russia
- Ann Benjamin, USA
- Clíona Doris, Ireland
- Mario Falcao, Portugal/USA
- Alice Giles, Australia
- Marisela Gonzalez, Venezuela
- Aurea Guerner, Portugal
- Evelyn Huber, Germany
- Lucrecia Jancsa, Argentina
- Jan Jennings, USA
- Jung Kwak, Korea
- Veronika Lemishenko, Urkraine
- Karen Lindquist, USA
- Stasa Mirkovic Grujic, Serbia
- Marcelo Penido, Brasil
- Lieve Robbroeckx, Belgium
- Ernestine Stoop, The Netherlands
- Katryna Tan, Singapore
- Caryl Thomas, United Kingdom
- Ernst Walch, Liechtenstein
- Guan Wang, China
- Patricia Wooster, USA
Honorary Board of Directors
- Bernard Andrès, France
- Pierre Bartholomée, Belgium
- Sally Beamish, United Kingdom
- Marco Betta, Italy
- Robert Freeman, USA
- Paul Patterson, United Kingdom
- Libor Pesek, Czech Republic
- David del Tredici, USA