At Peace Massage

Ruth Cunningham, Diana Stork

Diana Stork has been well known in the international harp world for nearly two decades. Beloved as a performer in sacred and world music ensembles (the Maihar Orchestra of Ali Akbar Khan, Geist, Twin Harps, Musica Divina) throughout the SF Bay Area; she is also much praised for her efforts in promoting the harp. Director since 1990 of the award-winning multicultural harp concert series FESTIVAL OF HARPS(sm) and the BAY AREA YOUTH HARP ENSEMBLE since l999; she also co-produced the Harpestry CD series on Imaginary Road/Polygram which became a PBS Special in l999. She has composed dozens of scores for healing recordings and videos with people such as Andrew Harvey, Dr. Charles Tart, and Dr. Meir Schneider. As world peace becomes an ever more urgent concern, she finds she is devoting an increasing amount of her work with the harp, be it composing, teaching, performing, or recording, to the service of helping others.

Ruth Cunningham is a classically trained musician and a sound healer. She combines these skills to create intuitively improvised music that connects people to the healing and spiritual power of music. She also collaborates with other healers and musicians in a variety of settings. Ruth is certified as a cross cultural music healing practitioner (CCMHP) by the Open Ear Center located on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She currently has two recordings of healing music, Sacred Light, with harpist Diana Stork and Ancient Beginnings, which is part of the Open Ear Center’s Music for Healing series. 

Ruth was a member of the acclaimed women’s vocal quarter ANONYMOUS 4 for ten years. With them, she performed in concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East and made ten recordings – nine of medieval chant and polyphony for harmonia mundi and one, Voices of Light by contemporary composer Richard Einhorn, for Sony Classical.  In the spring of 1998, she left ANONYMOUS 4 to explore other musical repertoires and to work in the field of sound and healing. Ruth Cunningham received a B. Mus. from the New England Conservatory of Music and she has studied Cross-Cultural Music and Healing with Pat Moffitt Cook at the Open Ear Center.