About Christina (Xina)

  Living on the shore of Lake Superior  in Duluth, MN inspires Christina Cotruvo’s harp music.  She brings her therapeutic lap harp with its rich and vibrant purpleheart wood tones to local hospitals, rehabilitation centers, hospice and assisted living homes.  She is a Certified Clinical Musician.  The Celtic harp rings true the music for special events.   Whether playing at health fairs or special community events such as Grandma’s Marathon, she brings along several accessible harps for the public to try.

 “Speak the Music!” has been a service Christina provides to blind and low vision musicians and their teachers since 1988 with her No-C-Notes audio music description method.   Her assistance to low vision musicians has grown to coaching musicians with many challenges and adapting music score and harps to meet the musician’s needs.   She has a wealth of information and experience from publishing No-C-Notes for the blind, transcribing printed score to audio, providing accessible harp seminars for harpers, introducing harps to those with challenges with Harp-Abilities, assisting non-profit, schools and government organizations for those with disabilities and playing harp for medical care facilities.  No-C-Notes is becoming the standard of audio music score books for all.