Agenda
Agenda
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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.
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The 4th series of Les Jeudis de la Harpe concludes in style with a great young modern trad duo, from our home region of Brittany.
Klervi Rouyer (Celtic harp) and Malo Ar Gall (wooden flute) both began playing traditional Breton music as small children. Klervi started the harp at the age of 5, while Malo began his musical life playing the bagpipes in a band in the northern Finistère region. Both also went to Breton-medium schools (Diwan), before continuing at the Brest Conservatoire of Music.
Klervi, now studying traditional music in Rennes, is the first prize winner of our “Dasson an Delenn” (“The resonance of the harp”) Breton music competition, which last took place in 2019. You can read about that here on the Camac blog.
On our programme: original compositions, Irish and Breton trad, for both solo harp and Klervi and Malo’s duo. You’re going to love it!
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Radio France’s 32nd new music festival Présences 2022 has programmed an exciting new harp concerto. Christophe de Coudenhove’s “En blanc and blue” will be premiered by Isabelle Moretti (concert harp), Ghislaine Petit-Volta (blue harp) and the Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Frédéric Maurin.
Friday, February 2022, 22:30 CET, studio 104, Maison de la radio et de la musique, Paris.
Live broadcast on France Musique
Read more: Camac blog
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The next event in our “Harp for all!” series of come-and-try workshops for beginners will take place in Lohmar, Germany on March 6th. German-language, please see flyer for further details. NO prior musical knowledge required!
We are delighted to provide instruments for the event in collaboration with our colleague Andrea Thiele at the Bonn branch of Camac Harfen Deutschland.
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We are very happy to be back at Harpe en Avesnois this year. Eric Piron and Pierre Le Levier will be present on March 11-12, with an exhibition of the latest instruments to leave the Camac workshops.
If there is sufficient demand, we can also bring one of our master technicians to regulate your Camac harps free of charge. Please contact [email protected] with details of your harp model to register your interest.
To find out more about the festival’s exceptional artistic programme on March 11 – 12, please see their website.
