Agenda
Agenda
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It’s the last in the series for Les Jeudis de la Harpe! And what a finale it will be, as we welcome Cuerpo y Arpa: harpist Nathalie Chatelain, and flamenco dancer Anais Bayle. With music ranging from Asturias to The Mask of Zorro, harp and dance improvisations, and Deborah Henson-Conant’s famous “Baroque Flamenco”, this is a treat not to be missed!
Do download the programme to the right, and join us on Thursday, February 9th at 19:30CET, @ CamacHarpsOfficial on YouTube.
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Want to develop your jazz improvisation skills, and try playing with the band? Felice Pomeranz will show you how!
On Saturday, March 18 from 3 to 6 pm at Espace Camac, explore improvisation, and playing alongside Alexander Trampas (bass) and Julien Machet (drums).
Workshop open to all ages, all levels, or just as a spectator.
Felice POMERANZ has been teaching at Berklee College of Music since 2002, the year she initiated a harp class. She holds advanced degrees from the New England Conservatory in both classical and jazz harp, and is the first and only harpist to have received a master’s degree in jazz studies from the NEC.
In addition to her lecturing skills, Felice has performed at virtually every classical and jazz festival in the United States, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean. Her webshop includes a comprehensive catalog of transcriptions, classical and popular arrangements, her major recordings (Tomorrow’s Dream, Felicidade), as well as her instructional DVD Jazzy Beginnings and the CD/workbook Harp in the Band, Vol.1.
Felice is very active in the American Harp Society, serving as president of the board of directors, and is the head of Gilded Harps, an authoritative network of harp professionals, often initiating events throughout New England and beyond. With Kids for Camp, she provides a summer camp scholarship opportunity for young harpists.
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We are delighted to be returning to Cracow for the 4th Cracow Harp Days, a festival weekend we have proudly sponsored since 2010. It all takes place thanks to the vision of Agnieszka Grela-Fedkowicz, harp professor at Cracow’s Szkoła Muzyczna I i II stopnia im. Bronisława Rutkowskiego, and since its beginnings has welcomed artists such as Anneleen Lenaerts, Isabelle Moretti, Rossitza Milevska, Tara Minton, Marta Power and Aistė Baliunytė, Florence Sitruk and Klara Wośkowiak. It is always a joyful meeting between international and Polish harpists, students and stars, and friends old and new; we also bring a harp exhibition and offer gratis regulations of Camac Harps throughout the weekend.
The 4th Cracow Harp Days will now take place between March 18-19, 2023, with guest artists François Pernel and Edmar Castaneda.
François Pernel is one of the most creative lever harpists we know: browse his YouTube channel to get a sense of his extraordinary range, and how he is developing new voices for the lever harp. Believing that interesting music belongs to every age and stage, François has also brought out several exquisitely-printed volumes of sheet music that will excite and move you from your very first harp notes. We are very proud to have developed our Excalibur instrument with him: large lever harp with an exceptionally powerful sound.
The exceptional Latin jazz virtuoso Edmar Castaneda has collaborated with Sting, Bela Fleck, John Scofield, Ricki Lee Jones, Hiromi, John Patitucci, Pedrito Martinez, Marcus Miller, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ivan Lins, The Yellowjackets, and Paco De Lucia. The great Paquito D’Rivera has called him “an enormous talent…a musician who has taken his harp out of the shadow to become one of the most original musicians from the Big Apple.” Don’t miss his extraordinary blend of traditional Colombian music and jazz, on the harp we custom-built for him: the EC Llanera 35.
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The Cracow Harp Days can be contacted via their Facebook or Instagram pages.
Harp regulation enquiries: Marta Mogielnicka, MyHarp.
Not sure who to contact? Helen Leitner, [email protected]!
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Our esteemed partners Virginia Harp Center are holding their festival in Arlington, USA! Between March 24-26, 2023, you can experience stars of the classical, jazz and Celtic harp in concerts, performance classes, and workshops. You can also take to the stage yourself, in an open mic session or as part of the VHC Festival Harp Ensemble.
Comprehensive information, schedule, location and booking is all available on the festival website.
Virginia Harp Center festival website, or contact VHC on +1 856-428-1430 / [email protected]
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We are happy to again be sponsoring the International Competition of the Slovenian Harp Association, now in its 6th edition. The competition will take place in Velenje, Slovenia between March 31 – April 2, 2023, with no fewer than 7 different categories:
Category A – born in 2012 or later
Category B – born in 2011 – 2010
Category C – born in 2009 – 2008
Category D – born in 2007 – 2005
Category E – born in 2004 – 2002
Category F – born in 1992 or laterPlease see the links below for further information.
All enquiries: slovenianharpcompetition@
gmail.com Please see the following links for information about:
Deadline for registration: February 12th.
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From baroque works to contemporary compositions, passing through American, African and Spanish origins, Mexican mestizo music is incredibly rich and multifacted. Discover its history and evolution at Camac Harps Paris!
Gerardo Tamez (direction, guitar, Baroque guitar and voice)
Mercedes Gómez (harp and voice)
Teodoro Gálvez (violin and voice)
Carlos García (voice, flute, jarana, percussion)Gerado Tamez founded the Tierra Mestiza Ensemble in 2005, to present a repertoire nourished by the roots of Latin American folk music. Its character is clearly fusion, with elements from indigenous American, African and Spanish traditions. Its chronological scope is equally broad, ranging from Baroque works to more recent pieces composed or arranged by musicians such as Astor Piazzolla, Arturo Márquez and Gerardo Tamez himself.
The four members of the Tierra Mestiza Ensemble are distinguished by their deep knowledge of Latin American folk music and their solid academic training. Gerardo Tamez is a renowned composer and instrumentalist, while Mercedes Gómez needs no introduction to the harp community as a soloist, teacher, chamber musician, writer and participant in interdisciplinary activities. Carlos García is a jazz musician of great stylistic experience, and Teodoro Gálvez is a Mexican chamber musician, member of the OFUNAM orchestra.
The Tierra Mestiza Ensemble released its first CD, Ida y Vuelta, on Discos Pueblo in 2008. A second album followed on Fonarte Latino in 2012: Folia y Son, with new compositions by Carlos Garcia and Gerardo Tamez, colonial polyphonic music from Peru, and works by the 17th century Mexican poetess Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
The Tierra Mestiza Ensemble has performed in prestigious venues in Mexico City such as the Palace of Fine Arts, the Auditorium of the Mexican Radio Institute, the Botanical Gardens of the University of Mexico UNAM, the Teatro Reforma IMSS, the National Conservatory of Music and the National School of Music, as well as in many countries (USA, Brazil, Peru). In 2021, they created Pantéon de fiesta by Mercedes Gómez, a piece for puppets, actors and musicians with original music by Gerardo Tamez.
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We are proud to support the fifth Wales International Harp Festival, which will take place in Caernarfon between April 5-11, 2023. It will be a busy week, full of superb concerts and an international competition. Isabelle Moretti, Deborah Henson-Conant, Edmar Castaneda, Catrin Finch and Festival Director Elinor Bennett are all on the programme. As for the competition, this runs in four categories: Junior, Youth, Chief Musician and world music.
The Camac team will be out in force along with our esteemed Welsh partners Telynau Vining, supplying harps for the competition and cheering everyone on!
The Festival is also going to be Elinor Bennett’s final one as Artistic Director, and we are looking forward to a joyful celebration of her incredible contribution to the harp world over the decades.
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As well as being a unique performer, composer and recording artist, Marianne Gubri is the director of the International Harp Therapy Program in Italy and France. She regularly gives classes and lectures on improvisation, composition and therapeutic approaches.
On the 15 April at the Espace Camac, you will have the chance both to hear Gubri and to enrich your playing and improvising.
The day will begin with an Introduction to Harp Therapy; a chance for harpists (with at least one year’s experience) to discover a rich variety of improvisation patterns, play creatively and understand various concepts as applied in the fields of music and sound therapy.
This presentation will be followed by a performance of her beautiful Vita Nuova Programme, a concert that explores renewal and innovation, inspired by the poetic texts of Dante.
You are cordially invited to register online for this rare event.
