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Under the artistic direction of Ghislaine Petit-Volta and Laurence Bancaud, the Collegium21 competition encourages even the youngest harpists to explore contemporary music. There are four levels from beginners to advanced conservatoire students, combine very new works / world premiers, with free-choice pieces. One special feature of the competition is its series of masterclasses prior to the contest, where students can work directly with the composers of the set works. Moreover, all the masterclasses are filmed and later published online.
This year, Collegium21 has made a big effort to increase the accessibility of the competitions to international students: their website now also has an English version, with all the information you need to take part. Curious harpists should also explore the website of Collegium21’s sister association, Les Signes de L’Arc. They have also translated their excellent reference book – La Harpe aux XXe et XXIe siècles – into English, as Guide to the Contemporary Harp.
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You can now enter the International Prestige Awards, organised by Rave Harps, our partners in Singapore and Malaysia. The Prestige Awards are chamber music competitions, both for harp ensembles, and harp and other instruments. There’s a wealth of categories, from children aged under 6, to classes both for young professionals and adult amateurs.
If you’re resident in Singapore and Malaysia, the competition will be held live. If you are based elsewhere in the world, your entry will be live, online. While the jury watch in real time, candidates will perform via video call.
The closing date for entries is February 28th 2021, with an early bird discount for all entries received before the end of January. The live rounds, both in Singapore and on video call, will take place on July 18th.
Read more on the Camac blog!
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This year, Camac Harps France will be closing for summer holidays from Friday evening, July 16th 2021, until August 16th 2021. Camac Harps Paris will close at 6PM on Saturday, July 17th. We will reopen in Mouzeil on Monday morning, August 16th, and in Paris on Tuesday August 18th.
The webshop will also be closed during this period.
Have a super summer!
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We’re delighted to open our fourth series of online concerts with the doyenne of the Irish harp, Janet Harbison. To transport yourselves virtually to our concert hall, just click on CamacHarpsOfficial on Youtube, Thursday November 4 at 19:30 CET.
Born in Dublin, Dr. Janet Harbison is equally at home in traditional Irish and classical art music. Her early career was punctuated by winning every national harp competition and a number of internationals, including the All-Ireland Championship, the Isle of Man Millenium Competition and the Rencontres Internationales de Harpe Celtique, Dinan. In 1980, she became the first harper to tour the world with Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann.
Appointed Curator of Music at the Ulster Folk Museum in 1986, Janet Harbison instigated a number of cross-community cultural heritage projects – the most dynamic of which was the Belfast Harp Orchestra, subsequently the Irish Harp Orchestra. Early collaborations with The Chieftains brought world fame and a Grammy Award for their first joint album; the orchestra has also toured throughout Ireland, the UK, North America, Europe and the Middle East.
In 2016, Janet returned to Northern Ireland as Visiting Professor of Music at Ulster University at Magee College, L’Derry. Revisiting her academic interests in ethnomusicology, psychology, linguistics and pedagogy, much of her time is now spent researching, writing and organising the considerable archive of the Belfast Harp Orchestra, the Irish Harp College, and managing her considerable catalogue of publications. In March 2020, she presented the keynote speech at the Ulster University Belfast symposium on ‘Irish Harp, by Note, Rote and Reason’ and today, she continues to perform, compose and teach as a freelance musician and musicologist.
Janet Harbison is the inspiration for Camac’s “Janet” Irish harp.
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Born in 1995, Mathilde Wauters took her first harp lessons with her sister Emma. She then continued her musical education at the Bruges Municipal Conservatory with Eline Groslot, and in Sophie Hallynck’s class at the Antwerp Conservatory. First admitted there as a young talent at the age of 15, she obtained her Master’s degree with the highest distinction in 2017. She continued with Isabelle Moretti at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, also graduating with the highest distinction. Mathilde is currently a member of the Munich Philharmonic Academy programme and is supported by the S.W.U.K. Foundation.
Mathilde has won several national and international competitions, including the Godefroid Competition, Harpegio, and Belfius Classics. In 2013, she won the first prize at the Martine Géliot International Harp Competition. At the 11th USA International Harp Competition in Bloomington, she won the third prize as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.
Mathilde has also participated in numerous master classes with renowned harpists such as Germaine Lorenzini, Letizia Belmondo, Patrizia Tassini and Jana Bouskova. She has performed in music festivals like the Arte Amanti festival and Les concerts de l’orangerie in Seneffe, and was part of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in 2018.
Mathilde regularly performs as a duo with Emma Wauters, in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Brugge or Bozar in Brussels.
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This week on Les Jeudis de la Harpe, it’s time for some jazz ♫
We have often worked with Ben Creighton Griffiths; we love his creative and wide-ranging mastery, from jazz manouche to his famous “one man band” sets. He’s performed for us in his home town of Cardiff, and much further afield: a tour of the Netherlands, several times in Spain, Hungary, Zagreb, Prague and at the Cambridge Jazz Festival. If you haven’t yet discovered his work, Ben has an excellent YouTube channel of his own: check out his fusion collection, standards collection, pop collection, gipsy jazz collection, and more.
We’re thrilled that Ben has made it across the Channel from Cardiff to join us in Paris, and he’ll be performing many numbers from his latest album – La Vie en Rose!
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25 Nov 2021
This week, Les Jeudis de la Harpe present one of the harp’s best-loved chamber music constellations: in trio with flute and viola.
Léo Doumène (harp), Marie Laforge (flute) and Raphaël Pagnon (viola) are longtime friends who all met while studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. They are now also all members of the Appassionato Chamber Orchestra, a dynamic and flexible ensemble based in Paris.
This Thursday, November 25 at 19:30, they will perform two of the most famous trios in the harp repertoire: Debussy’s Sonate en trio, and Takemitsu’s And Then I Knew ‘Twas Wind.
