Mary Lattimore

American harpist Mary Lattimore was born in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 11, 1980. The daughter of a harpist, she learned to play the instrument at the age of eleven and received classical training at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she also performed on the radio. In Philadelphia, she collaborated with The Valerie Project, a psychedelic collective with whom she recorded a self-titled album released in 2007 on the Drag City label, before going solo. Her taste for electronic music and ambient atmospheres materialized in 2012 with a first self-produced cassette for the Life Like label, released the following year on vinyl by Desire Path Recordings under the title The Withdrawing Room. After a first collaboration with musician Jeff Ziegler for the album Slant of Light (2014), Mary Lattimore received a grant from the Pew Fellowship organization, which she used to travel in California and Texas, before tackling the album At the Dam, released by Ghostly International in 2016. Based in Los Angeles, the musician continues her career with the same label with the critically acclaimed albums Hundred of Days(2018), Silver Ladders (2020) and Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (2023). She collects several other compositions in the albums Collected Pieces (2017) and Collected Pieces II (2021) and also collaborates with Maxwell August Croy, Meg Baird, Mac McCaughan, Growing, Paul Sukeena or Walt McClements, then with Julianna Barwick for Tragic Magic, released in 2026.