Daniel Perret

Biography I was born in Zurich and lived there for forty years. I moved with my family to South-West-France, where my wife and I teach and enjoy the area. I began playing music when I was 18 , exploring folk traditions from America, UK and Ireland . I played Irish traditional music fro 30 years, mainly Uilleann pipes and whistles. I met Bob Moore a spriritual heler from Northern Ireland in 1979 and my wife and I studied with him for 29 years. He taught me so much about development, energy fields and the effects of sound. I bought a concert pedal harp in 1980, a Celtic harp some years later and recently had an ancient Egyptian bow harp made by a gifted local craftsman. I play feeling improvisations on the harps. That is idiom-free with no rhythms, no melodies and no repetitive chords. My playing aims to give the listener as much freedom as possible, and not cath their mind and endlessly churn in their heads. My own personal development work has led me not to separate physical and non-physical levels in my life. I have written extensively about energy and energy fields. I have been part of a group of healers practicing distant healing for many years. Although I worked as a music therapist for 14 years in a children's day clinic at Brive Hospital (Central France), I am not a harp therapist, as this requires a specific training.