Michelle Sell

Although Michelle is an alumna and former faculty member of San Francisco Conservatory, where she studied classical music with Marcella DeCray, she is also an award winning "pops" and jazz harpist. Her styles are diverse and extensive, ranging from Bach to Cole Porter. Michelle is also a composer for Omni Music in New York. Her original compositions have been used on television, radio, and in motion pictures.

Whether it be a wedding, fund raiser, wedding reception, birthday party, retirement party, afternoon tea, or holiday affair, Michelle can be heard as a soloist or in combination with flute, cello, bass, guitar, violin, or saxophone. Depending on the engagement, classical flute and harp are beautiful accompaniments for your ceremony, while soprano saxophone, bass guitar, and harp are fabulous for your lively "jazzy" reception.

For outdoor weddings & private engagements, Michelle frequently uses a Camac electro-acoustic harp. Every string on this harp has a pickup or small microphone. This enables the harp to be heard, clearly, in venues seating 500 people or, in contrast, at venues with few people, it is an intimate background instrument. Michelle believes that her clients are entitled to professionalism, punctuality, courtesy, and above all, the ability to hear the music for which they are paying. At large venues and at outdoor functions, a traditional acoustic harp may be difficult to hear if not amplified. There is no extra charge for using the Camac electro-acoustic harp and its amplification system.