Somna M. Bulist is an accomplished electro-acoustic harp soloist and has performed her music in diverse performance settings. A Chinese-American denizen of Pennsylvania, Somna-nee Wendy Renee Fong- is graduate of Pratt Institute, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and was awarded a Ford Foundation Scholarship, for her work in photography. Somna began and continued harp study with the renowned harpist and innovator, Lucile Lawrence, and completed coursework at the Mannes School of Music and the Delcroze School of Music, in New York City. Ms. Bulist, an advocate of the electro-acoustic harp, has embraced extended techniques in her experiments involving sound as a generative force. She composes under her pseudonym, Somna M. Bulist. She made her first public appearance at the 1998 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, where she performed her original work for solo harp, The FAERYE Invocations, and, in the same year, a selection of the pieces were released on her debut CD, Invocations FAERYE. She premiered her situational work in tribute to the millennium, 44 minutes on the flatline_A Cry for the Millennium, at the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival, a production of The Present Company. At the 2001 Philadelphia Fringe Festival she performed Valentine Stigmata her three-part minimalist opera inspired by ceremonial Qabalist chant featuring vocalist, Haley Alexandra Saba. Ms. Bulist is a 2006 ASCAPLUS award recipient for performances of her original compositions in rock clubs and new music events in New York City, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In 2009 she founded Xarpe Artist Editions a publishing consortium of living composers, arrangers and improvisers focusing on new works for the harp. She is a member of The American Harp Society and the International Alliance for Women in Music.