Abigail Millar Todd

Abigail is a harpist from the north of Scotland. She grew up playing traditional music, before beginning her study of classical harp at the age of 12. She studied at Aberdeen City Music School, the Music School of Douglas Academy and Chetham’s School of Music before attending conservatoire at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Her teachers included Isabelle Perrin, Gabriella Dall’Olio and Alina Bzhezhinska Lazorkina amongst others. Abigail has worked with various orchestras including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Highland Chamber Orchestra and Oslo Kammerorkester amongst others. She works in a variety of jazz and popular music settings, which includes composition and lyric writing. She has worked and recorded with bands such as Fieh, Bård Berg, Julie Henrikke, New Banke, Plant and more. Abigail arranges and writes music, predominantly of the folk genre, some examples of which were published in a collection of tunes by the Clarsach Society in 2022.