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Free Online Workshop: Making Hands Work Together with Zuzanna Olbrýs

July 10, 2025

Join Zuzanna Olbrýs for an exciting online workshop happening on July 11th! Designed for late beginners (and beyond), this session offers valuable insights into one of the most essential, yet complex, aspects of learning to play the harp: coordinating the hands. It can sound so simple, can’t it? But we all know better!Read more…

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Recomposed, remoulded and gently unfolding: FitkinWall and ‘Harpland’

May 8, 2024

Internationally renowned harp and electronica duo FitkinWall (comprising harpist Ruth Wall and composer/performer Graham Fitkin, are about to embark on the second leg of the UK tour of their critically acclaimed new show: Harpland. Read more…

Glowing Harp Competition 2024: The results are in!

May 1, 2024

After an intensive period of online rounds, assiduously overseen by an international jury of distinguished harpists and artistic director Veronika Lemishenko: the results are in! Read more…

Spring in Montpellier with the Collection Hexagone (27 and 28 April)

April 21, 2024

Next weekend, the Collection Hexagone series heads to Montpellier, where the featured artist of the weekend will be Montpellier-native Camille Heim and her group Chocho Cannelle. Read more…

Julien Dupont- Armstrong and Anne Mispelter

“Music that appeals to the imagination, to dreams”: Maxima Poesia live at the Espace Camac!

April 18, 2024

On 26 April, we are delighted to welcome this one-of-a-kind ensemble for a concert to the Espace Camac. MAXIMA POESIA are a group whose raison d’être is to accentuate the living relationship between poetic writing and modern jazz. Using texts from a variety of different styles and highly distinctive authors (amongst them Arthur Cravan, Joyce Mansour, Jacques Vaché Peter Handke and Boris Vian ), Maxima Poesia seek to: “give the poem back its orality, its voice, its breath, proposing a contemporary Jazz where it can breathe”, in a musical language that combines elements of the Chanson tradition, spoken word and slam.

Anneleen and Petra trying out harps at the Camac Nederlands showroom.

Two are better than one! An interview with Petra van der Heide and Anneleen Schuitemaker of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.

April 15, 2024

The Concertgebouw orchestra is unusual in that it supports two full-time positions for harpists: Petra van der Heide, who has been principal harp since 2003 (having formerly been principal harpist of the Opera in Darmstadt) and Anneleen Schuitemaker was appointed Second harp/ Assistant principal harp in 2020 (having been academist in several major german orchestras)

A range of Camac harps on display during the EIHF 2022 festival as part of the annual Harpmakers' Exhibition. © Chantal Guevara 2022. All rights reserved.

The Edinburgh International Harp Festival 2024

March 25, 2024

The fabulous Edinburgh International Harp Festival (now in its 43rd year) returns to George Watson’s College from April 5th to April 9th, 2024. As always, prospective festival goers can look forward to an absolutely packed few days of concerts from internationally renowned performers, as well as emerging artists, groups and ensembles. The festival has always emphasised education; this they have always done with a welcoming and inclusive approach, and there will be the usual wide range of courses and workshops.

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