Corrina Hewat is a maker, a composer, harper, singer, choir director, born in Edinburgh, who spent her formative years in the Highlands of Scotland which shaped her musical character; introvert, dark and slightly adrift. She now lives in a small village in Midlothian with her family and her cats. She started writing music young, as a way of expression when she didn’t have the words. She says, “I do that still.”

She is releasing Song of Oak and Ivy on Big Bash Records BBRCD020 in January 2025.
Corrina Hewat’s ten-harp suite featuring acoustic, electric and wire-strung harps – intensely encapsulates, in four movements, the diverse energies of the contemporary Scottish harp revival. For this performance celebrating the release of the album, Dave Milligan on piano joins forces again with Corrina, Mary Macmaster, Wendy Stewart, Heather Downie, Tristan Le Govic, and Bill Taylor in their own alchemy of sound. Based loosely on the ‘The Oak tree and the Ivy’, a short story by Eugene Field, published in his A Little Book of Profitable Tales in 1891. 

The symbiotic nature of the Ivy and Oak’s relationship is explored in a musical alchemy, the listener invited into a symphony of strings ; tendrils of jigs, strathspeys of oak, tales from the four corners of the earth, electric storms and murky depths, airs and reels of love and farewell. On the stage, electro, acoustic and wire harps interweave with piano to allow the listener to hear and feel the beauty in the chaotic nature of life.

Since 2015 Corrina has directed the Scots Folk choir Sangstream,
she is Artistic Director of the Harp Village in Cromarty which happens annually in September
and has just finished a five-year project as co-writer/co-producer/composer of the Dragon Trilogy in the DragonSong Productions interactive children’s theatre
and is also one of the musicians who compiled the “Folk Tunes from the Women” Faber Music

She has featured in over 50 recordings in her 30-year professional career.

Musically co-founder of The Unusual Suspects Big Band and Bachue with David Milligan
and vocal trios Grace, Hewat, Polwart (with Karine Polwart & Annie Grace);
Shine (with Alyth McCormack & Mary Macmaster);
Chantan (Christine Kydd & Elspeth Cowie),
she has worked with the very best of folk.
Most recently, Corrina has been working with the inspirational Karine Polwart in her choir-based Sing to the Dark
and Come Away In collaborative shows.

Corrina has a gentle and rare way of coaxing the very best out of you—your voice, body, and breath—into some wholesome and invigorating harmony singing. She is a composer and collaborator and loves to support harpers in arranging, production, and stagecraft.