Isla Biffin
Isla Biffin was born in 2001 in Armidale, Australia. She first started harp in 2007 with Sayo Lipman in Brisbane and later with Sebastian Lipman and Jane Rosenson. She has played with the Opera Australia Orchestra and as principal harpist with the Australian Youth Orchestra on multiple occasions.
Isla has been a soloist with many orchestras, she played works such as the Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto, the Handel Harp Concerto and Debussy Danses sacrée et profane with the Armidale Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 she began her Bachelor’s degree at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Stephen Fitzpatrick where she is currently studying.
In 2022 she was awarded the first prize for the International Reinl Competition in Vienna, and in 2023 the first prize at the Wales International harp festival chief musician category. She has been teaching harp for over 8 years.