"Teresa Suen-Campbell's performance of two-time Juno Award winning composer CHAN Ka Nin's harp concerto, written for her, with Sinfonia Toronto conducted by Nurhan Arman, was praised as "(Teresa was) superb in all ways, played beautifully, looked beautiful and has such a beautiful voice” by celebrated harpist Judy Loman. The commission was supported by the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.

 

I​n September 2024, she recorded three harp concertos, including Prof. Chan’s, together with the Handel harp concerto and James W. Campbell’s harp concerto with Sinfonia Toronto under the baton of Nurhan Arman. It will be released in 2025. She had the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She recorded Alice Ping Yee Ho’s work “Beyond the Erupting Skies Silver Angels Sing Among the Gold Stars” on the Centrediscs label. Her debut solo album "Longing" 2010 was praised as “a well-balanced program focusing on calmness and warmth, beautifully played” by Canadian Classical Music Magazine Whole Note.​

 

An advocate of contemporary music, Teresa has collaborated with many composers and has commissioned three harp concertos, three solo works for the harp, and two solo works for harp and electronics to date. In April 2025, she will appear with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong to perform Prof Chan's concerto in a concert hosted by the Hong Kong Composers' Guild. In June 2025, she will present a solo recital sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre and will premiere two new works written for her by Canadian composers Aris Carastathis and Darlene Reid, along with her own new arrangement. The commissions are supported by the American Harp Society.

 

As a soloist, Teresa has performed with Sinfonia Toronto, Toronto Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, Kindred Spirits Orchestra, Hong Kong Strings and the SAR Philharmonic. She has also been invited to different international music festivals and conferences, such as the Toronto Summer Music (2022), American Harp Society Summer Institute (2015), Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival (2015), Music and Beyond (2013), and the Hong Kong Arts Festival (2009).​

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As an orchestral harpist, Teresa is currently principal harpist of the Toronto Concert Orchestra and the North Bay Symphony, and formerly, Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra (2009-2011). She has also performed with the Windsor Symphony, Scarborough Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Illinois Symphony. She has performed under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy and has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Kathleen Battle, Placido Domingo, Skaila Kanga and Dame Evelyn Glennie. Her performances were broadcasted on TV and radio stations in Canada, Hong Kong and US.​

 

An enthusiastic and dedicated educator, Dr. Suen-Campbell is a harp examiner at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Teresa is currently on faculty at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Prior to this appointment, she taught harp performance at Carleton University and Northwestern University, and as an adjunct Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.Teresa is Co-Chair of the “Focus on Youth” committee of the World Harp Congress which will be held in Toronto in the summer of 2026. She gave a lecture on contemporary harp repertoire at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, UK as part of the World Harp Congress 2022.​

 

Dr. Suen-Campbell has been invited to be an adjudicator for various competitions, including the Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival and the First Hong Kong International Harp Competition. Her students have obtained top prizes in both local and international music festivals, exams and competitions, such as the Vancouver International Music Competition and the Ontario Music Festival. ​

 

An avid music scholar, Teresa's journal articles were published by the World Harp Congress Review, German Harp Society Journal, and the American Harp Journal. In recent years, she has also arranged and performed piano music of Beethoven, Schumann and traditional Chinese music for solo harp, the latter of which was critically reviewed by Harp Column Magazine.

 

​Dr Suen-Campbell is the first harpist from China to acquire a Doctor of Music degree in harp performance. She studied at Northwestern University in Chicago with Elizabeth Cifani, former principal harpist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. ​

 

Teresa makes her home in Oakville Ontario, with her husband James and three young boys.