Agenda
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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.
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As winter draws in, what could be more delightful than a fantastic concert in the comfort of your own home? This Thursday, celebrate the start of the festive season with a jazzy Jeudi de la Harpe!
At 19:30 on December 2nd, Evelyn Huber will be performing standards, her own compositions, and many tracks from her latest album, “Calm”. You can download the set list here.
Evelyn Huber is one of Germany’s best-known jazz harpists. She is the recipient of the the Bavarian Cultural Award, a multiple winner of the Jazz Award of the German Phonographic Industry, and – as a former member of the band Quadro Neuvo – “Live Act of the Year” at the German Music Awards in 2010 AND 2011.
As ever, join us for the concert on YouTube with one simple click.
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If you’re in Zagreb, our friends in Croatia are holding their 8th festival – with a Christmas theme! Don’t miss Anneleen Lenaerts, harp and voice with Marija Klepo, harp and percussion with Biserka Krčelić, the best of Croatia’s next generation of young artists on December 4, Doris Harp Karamatic on Dec 5, and harp and theatre with Lovarka Begović and Nina Šeparović.
The festival is also hybrid with online masterclasses with Chantal Mathieu from December 10-12!
Bookings: [email protected]
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Founded in 2007, the Atlantic Harp Duo was born from a shared friendship and love of the harp. Marta Power and Elizabeth Jaxon met while studying music in Paris and have been playing together ever since. Both native to the Great Lakes region of the United States, they have made their lives in France and the Netherlands.
On the programme this Thursday: the duo’s own arrangement of Ravel’s “Mother Goose” suite, which we think you’ll find is wonderful on two harps!
Marta and Elizabeth will follow this with two original works, both by Caroline Lizotte. These are Raga Op. 41 for two harps and percussion, and Stellae Saltantem Op. 49
for acoustic and electroacoustic harp.Stellae Saltantem was commissioned by the Atlantic Harp Duo for their Ariadne Rediviva program, inspired by Greek gods and mortals.
Caroline Lizotte writes: “Stellae Saltantem is about Ariadne’s mortal life coming to an end. Her husband Bacchus (an immortal god), in order to celebrate their love, casts Ariadne’s nuptial crown into the firmament where it becomes a constellation – Corona Borealis, the Crown of Ariadne. Ariadne, loved by the gods, is transported and immortalised in the celestial sphere. I decided that one harp would represent the gods (electroacoustic harp) and the other one would represent the mortals (acoustic harp). I titled the piece in Latin “Stellae Saltantem”, meaning “dancing stars”.
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2021’s online concerts will conclude magnificently with a solo recital by Anneleen Lenaerts, one of the most celebrated harpists in the world today.
Principal Harpist of the Vienna Philharmonic and one of the world’s most celebrated solo harpists, she won no fewer than 23 international prizes in her early career.
Anneleen is an exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics and this programme is all music from her latest album, “Vienna Stories”. All Anneleen’s own transcriptions/compositions, they perfectly evoke the world of opera and symphony orchestra alike, so characteristic of Vienna.
We’re looking forward to welcome you on Thursday: @CamacHarpsOfficial on Youtube, 19:30 this December 16.
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Happy New Year! The Camac team wish you all the very best for 2022 – may it bring us all joy, success and good health.
Our YouTube concerts, Les Jeudis de la Harpe, are back online this January 6th at 19:30 CET. Entirely free of charge, all you need to do is log on at the appointed hour and enjoy the music.
We’re delighted to welcome harpist and singer-songwriter Pia Salvia, with her husband the percussionist Noam Israeli. It’s a speedy return to the Camac stage for them, after a wonderful performance at our recent festival in Nice. We’re looking forward to music from Pia’s latest album, Blissful Sigh, together with beautiful covers of Bill Withers, Richard Rodgers, Charles Aznavour…and Britney Spears!
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This week on Les Jeudis de la Harpe we are delighted to present a harp concerto for the very first time! Claudia Lamanna will perform Glière’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E Flat Major Op.74, accompanied by Roberto Corlianò at the piano.
We are looking forward to welcoming you all to this beautiful musical moment. Join us over the airwaves on YouTube, this Thursday at 19:30.
