The Christa Grix Jazz Trio Performs

For 30+ years, Christa Grix has been engaging audiences in Southeastern Michigan with her unique skills as a harpist.

Christa fell under the spell of the harp during her first lesson at 16. Two years earlier, she was transfixed by live jazz during a performance at her high school. The two influences have shaped, but not limited her explorations and accomplishments on the instrument.

Equally adept as both a classical and jazz harpist, she is one of those rare individuals who can make the transition from the jazz rhythm section to the symphonic string section sound effortless. The appeal and respect her music generates has taken her throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe as an invited soloist and clinician at all the major harp festivals and conferences.

Grix released her first jazz harp recording, “freefall,” in 1996, on the Freefall Music label. Her second recording, “Cheek to Chic,” was released in 2002.

She is the midcentral regional director of the American Harp Society and is chair of its 2008 National Conference. Grix is director of the Rocky Mountain Springs Harp Program, based in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where she teaches and leads harpists in an idyllic mountain setting each summer.

Grix is married to graphic artist Michael Mullen, and they reside in the Detroit area with their son, Brendan.

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