About Me
With Sarah, Duchess of York at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
AT&T Gala, Meyerson Symphony Center, September 13, 2014 |
With HRH the Duke of Gloucester at St. Michael & All Angels
Episcopal Church, October 31, 2015 |
With HIRH Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria & Hungary at a
cafenear the Church of St. Mary Mother of God following the
mass commemorating her grandfather Emperor Bl Karl,
Washington, DC, October 21, 2016 |
With HRH Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza, Army & Navy Club,
Washington, DC, October 13, 2017 |
With HRH Prince Alexander of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen,
Mexico City, Mexico, June 6, 2018 | 
With HI&RH Archduke Carlos Felipe of Austria & Hungary
and a portrait of his ancestor Emperor Charles V,
Mexico City, Mexico, June 6, 2018 |
With HI&RH Archduke Eduard, great-great-great-grandson of
Emperor Franz Joseph (1830-1916), 15 October 2022, Plano, TX | 
With HI&RH Archduchess Maria Anna, granddaughter of
Emperor Bl. Karl (1887-1922), 15 October 2022, Plano, TX |
I was born on July 14, 1978, in Flint, Michigan, United States. In 1987 I moved to Indianapolis, Indiana with my parents, Jay Harvey and Susan Raccoli, and my younger brother William. I am a cellist and have also studied piano and organ. I graduated from high school in 1996 and attended the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, from which I graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance degree. I then enrolled at New York's The Juilliard School, from which I earned my Master of Music degree in 2002. From 2002 to 2004 I was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. I was Assistant Principal Cellist of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2008, and joined the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2008, serving as Associate Principal (2nd chair) since 2015.
Besides music and royalty, my interests include religion, history, movies, and fantasy (including the works of Tolkien). A convert to Anglicanism, I sang for nine years in the choir of the Church of the Incarnation, where I was baptized and confirmed at Easter 2009. I also sang monthly Choral Evensongs as a member of the choir of men and boys at St. Mark’s School of Texas from 2008 to 2013. I am a Knight of the Royal House of Portugal (2017) and a member of the International Monarchist League and the Society of King Charles the Martyr, and subscribe to Majesty Magazine.
I have traveled extensively in Europe and the Americas. My first trip to Europe was in July 1996, when I went to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with the
New World Youth Symphony Orchestra of Indianapolis. In 2000, I attended the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany and also visited Denmark and the Netherlands. I returned in 2001 to the same festival which this time included a tour of the capitals of Estonia, Latvia, Finland, and Denmark. In June 2002 I made my first visit to the United Kingdom, for the Queen's Golden Jubilee Weekend celebrations in London. In February 2004 I spent a week in Rome, Italy with the New World Symphony. I participated in the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland in the summer of 2004. In August 2007 I returned to the UK, participating in WDAV's tour of Scotland, and then went on to Italy, staying with friends in Rome. I spent most of summer 2009 in England, singing with the Incarnation choir at Lichfield Cathedral and Westminster Abbey and with the St. Mark's choir at Chichester, Southwark, and Canterbury cathedrals. In August 2010 I visited Salisbury and attended the Edington Music Festival. In July 2011 I returned to England with the Incarnation choir, singing services at Canterbury Cathedral, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Westminster Abbey, after which I visited Belgium & (briefly) Germany and attended the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. Of course I would not have dreamed of missing Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in June 2012, a once-in-a-lifetime experience after which I attended a conference on the history of the monarchy at Kensington Palace and participated in an Executed Queens Tour of sites pertaining to Tudor history. In March 2013 I spent three days in London before joining the Dallas Symphony on a fantastic European tour, with concerts in the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, and Belgium. I returned to the United Kingdom in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, and also visited France (Paris) in 2015 and Germany (Bavaria) in 2016. In July 2018 I made my first visit to Russia, participating in an educational tour "In the steps of the Romanovs" and then staying in Ekaterinburg for the 100th anniversary of the murder of the Imperial Family, joining about 100,000 pilgrims in procession from the Church on the Blood to Ganina Yama monastery. In June 2022 I returned to the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and then continued traveling in Mexico where, with my brother, I performed the Brahms Double with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco in Guadalajara.
On several occasions I have been privileged to meet members of the world's royal families. In May 1999 I had the opportunity to perform for and talk to HRH Princess Irene of Greece in Bloomington, Indiana, at a gala concert organized in her honor by Professor Emile Naoumoff. More briefly, in September 2000 I greeted TRH Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde (now King and Queen) of Belgium during their visit to New York City. In January 2002 I met HIRH Archduke Geza of Austria & Hungary when he was the guest speaker at a reception following the requiem mass for King Louis XVI of France. At the October 2006 Eurohistory conference near San Francisco I had the pleasure of meeting and dining with TH Prince Gregory and Princess Carrie of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. In August 2013 in Kabul I met both HH Prince Nadir Naim and HRH Prince Mirwais of Afghanistan when teaching cello at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. In September 2014 I met Sarah, Duchess of York when she was the guest of honour at the Dallas Symphony opening gala. In October 2015 I met HRH the Duke of Gloucester in Dallas at the investiture weekend of the Order of St. John. In October 2016 I met HI&RH Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria and her husband Prince Peter Galitzine following the mass commemorating her grandfather Emperor Bl Karl in Washington DC. A year later, also in Washington, I met HRH Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza, head of the Royal House of Portugal, and was deeply honored by entry as a Knight of the Portuguese Royal House. In June 2018 I performed with my brother William for HI&RH Archduke Carlos Felipe (grandson of Bl Karl and great-great-grandnephew of Emperor Maximilian) at his home in Mexico City, with the audience also including his wife and two sons and HRH Prince Alexander, Margrave of Meissen, head of the Royal House of Saxony. We performed for the Archduke and his wife and their guests again in February 2020.
My Ancestry
Biographical Chart
Dallas Symphony Biography
Chamber Music
Solo Performances with Orchestra
Cello Performances Online:
Walton Cello Concerto with Susan Kitterman and the New World Youth Symphony Orchestra (November 11, 2012)
Geminiani Sonata VI with Elliot Figg, Igreja da Consolação, São Paulo, Brazil (May 29, 2013)
Ravel Trio with Myung-Jin Wright and Eunice Keem, University of North Texas (November 4, 2013)
Saint-Saëns The Swan with Anastasia Markina, piano and Juliann Hyde, dancer, Dallas Museum of Art (January 11, 2014)
Haydn Sinfonia Concertante with Nathan Olson, Erin Hannigan, Ted Soluri (Jaap van Zweden/Dallas Symphony), Meyerson Symphony Center (February 2018)
Brahms Quintet Op. 111 with Aaron Boyd, Eleanor Dunbar, Jiah Kyun, and Ann Marie Brink, Southern Methodist University (February 19, 2018)
Britten Phantasy Quartet with Erin Hannigan, Eunice Keem, and Meredith Kufchak, Meyerson Symphony Center (March 20, 2020)
Tchaikovsky Valse Sentimentale with Patricia García Gil (May 2020)
Brahms Quintet Op. 111 with Alex Kerr, Nathan Olson, Meredith Kufchak, and Sarah Kienle, Meyerson Symphony Center (June 13, 2020)
Beethoven "Archduke" Trio and "Heiliger dankgesang" quartet, Christ United Methodist Church (filmed June 30, 2020; webcast July 19) (program notes)
Golijov Last Round; Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Dallas Symphony Chamber Players, Meyerson Symphony Center (November 16, 2020)
Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Dallas Symphony Chamber Players, Caruth Auditorium SMU (March 14, 2022)
Haydn Seven Last Words of Christ with Lucas Aleman, Andrew Schast, and Ellen Rose, Birchman Baptist Church (March 27, 2022)
Brahms Double with William Harvey and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco (José Luís Castillo), Teatro Degollado, Guadalajara, Mexico (June 16, 2022)
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