Agenda
Agenda
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23 Jun 2019
Caroline Lizotte needs little introduction to harpists interested in the electroacoustic Blue Harp. We were proud to make her a mirrored-chrome Big Blue in 2015, and her extensive, award-winning body of compositions for harp already features the instrument: ‘Danses Métales’ op. 47 for electric harp (in process for edition), or ‘Stellae Saltantem’ op. 49, a duo for electroacoustic and acoustic harps. Other compositions also incorporate amplification and sound processing: most famously ‘Concerto Techno’ op. 40 for harp, live techno and orchestra.
Supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Caroline will soon give the world premiere of her new Sonata for electroacoustic harp. She will perform this at none other than Camac Harps Paris, on Sunday, June 23rd (6PM). The programme will also include some of her other works: Concerto Techno with Étienne Ratthé / live techno, and Raga for two harps with Marta Power.
Entry is free, but please reserve your seats with Olivier and Laurent at
Espace Camac Paris
92, rue Petit – 75019 – Paris – France+33 (0) 1 40 40 08 40
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Following the success of the first Taiwan International Harp Festival in 2015, the second edition will continue to explore cross-genre, multidisciplinary performance. Directed by Shannon Cheih, Harp Rise II will take place between June 25 – 30, 2019, at the Eslite Performance Hall in Tapei. It’s your chance to experience the harp + … dance, poetry, drama, literature, multimedia images, electronic music, lighting design, and more. There will be concerts, masterclasses, world premieres, lectures, and even flash mob performances – and it will also be a great opportunity for harpists across the Asia-Pacific region to come together and exchange ideas.
The festival will also feature the Camac Prize Taiwan, a competition with both lever and pedal categories, across youth – advanced – open.
More information is on the blog.
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Camac Germany is looking forward working with Nikolaz Cadoret, Ruth Rojahn, and her class at the Musikschule der Hofer Symphoniker. The music school is in fact the only one in Germany to be run by a professional orchestra, and is famous both for its high artistic and pedagogic level, and its contribution to the wider community. Classes are available for everyone, from babies to adults and OAPs. The instrumental roster covers almost every classical instrument, and there is special focus on playing music together in groups. The music school also provides around three hundred performances a year for the residents of Hof to enjoy – including ours, on June 29th!
In English: read the rest on the Camac blog.
In German: download the flyer (right).
Workshop and concert reservations (free of charge): Ruth Rojahn, [email protected]
Regulations of Camac harps: Camac Harfen Deutschland, [email protected]
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Your lever harp summer is not complete without the Rencontres internationales de harpes celtiques, which take place annually in Dinan, Brittany. You can enjoy a wonderful programme from stars of the lever harp from all over the world, and playing everything from Latin jazz, to rock! There is also a great variety of courses, which you can explore and sign up for here.
Dinan is not far from our ateliers in Mouzeil, and we always bring a particularly extensive lever harp exhibition to the festival’s salon des luthiers. You’ll find us there between July 12th – 14th, at no less than the 36th edition of the festival.
Festival and course enquiries: La Maison de la Harpe
Camac exhibition enquiries: Pierre Le Levier, Camac Harps
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Camac is sponsoring Corrina Hewat‘s appearance at the Somerset Harp Festival, which takes place in Parsippany NJ between July 18 – 21, 2019. Our US distributors, the Virginia Harp Center, will also be in situ at the exhibition throughout the weekend.
Corrina’s work is at the heart of the dynamic new folk scene in Scotland, fusing traditional music with jazz, pop and other contemporary in highly creative ways. Following studies with Maire Ni Chathasaigh in Jazz & Contemporary Music (Leeds), Corrina has been widely-recognised for her work with bands Bachué (with pianist David Milligan), Shine (with Mary Macmaster & Alyth McCormack), and The Unusual Suspects, also with David Milligan. She has been commissioned to write several large-scale works for instrumental and choral ensembles, has directed a wide variety of shows, and recorded over 30 albums in the last twelve years. She is a core tutor on the Traditional Music Degree courses at Newcastle University and the RSAMD in Glasgow, and her sell-out workshops and courses on harmony singing, arranging and vocal techniques have proved to be a source of inspiration for countless singers and musicians.
Kathy DeAngelo
11 Country Lane, Voorhees, NJ 08043
Phone: 856-795-7637
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Camac Harfen Deutschland will be attending the 10th Harfensommer Lauterbach, from July 27th – 31st, 2019. Come and explore the range of lever and also electric harps, at the Lauterbach Jugendherberge throughout the duration of the Harfentreffen! Your friendly Camac team is looking forward to welcoming you.
Exhibition enquiries: Camac Harfen Deutschland
Harfensommer Lauterbach organising team: see their contact page
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The Camac Trophy will take place on August 10th, 2019, as part of the distinguished Festival Interceltique de Lorient.
Now in its twelfth year, the trophy has been awarded to some of the big names of the lever harp world. The winner receives a new Aziliz harp, and also opens the evening gala concert at the Lorient Palais des Congrès. Following a pre-selection, the finalists in Lorient will all perform a continuous, ten-minute suite, of Celtic or otherwise traditional origin/style, and including at least one Breton theme.
Application to the competition online, here.
Pierre Le Levier of Camac France will also attend with an exhibition of Camac Harps. All commercial enquiries: [email protected]. (Before July 18th, 2019)
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Our ateliers in Mouzeil, and our showroom in Paris, will be closed between Saturday, July 20th, and Sunday, August 18th inclusive. Mouzeil will reopen on Monday, August 19th. Because our Paris showroom is closed on Mondays, it will reopen on Tuesday, August 20th. The Camac webshop will also be closed during this period.