Melanie Wiltse is a career church musician with 30 years of piano teaching experience. She was introduced to the harp several years ago and the harp has become her passion. She builds harps for her growing number of students, teaches workshops at national harp conferences and has a group of enthusiastic harp students in Stevens Point, ages 5 to 75, who share her love for this unique instrument. She especially enjoys the variety of musical traditions, both folk and classical, that embrace the harp and its music. Melanie builds instruments in her workshop located in Rudolph, Wisconsin and also enjoys gardening, writing, photography, sewing and a variety of arts and crafts. She is the mother of three adult children and grandmother of four.
