Isabelle Perrin will perform Elzbieta Sikora's South Shore: Concertino for Blue Harp and Orchestra at the Gdansk Festival of Contemporary Music, April 18th, 2009, with the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra.
South Shore was commissioned jointly by Camac Harps and the Polish Harp Society, and premiered by Isabelle at the Second International Harp Festival in Katowice, 2008. Harpseasons reported on this at the time: you can read Florence's interview with Elzbieta Sikora here (page 9). It is the first classical concerto for Blue Harp and orchestra, and particularly exploits the Blue Harp's possibilities of amplification. The dialogue between harp and orchestra take place on truly equal footing simply because the harp can be made loud enough. Sikora plays too on the juxtaposition of acoustic and electronic resonance, uses additional electronic processing - and often leaves the choices about processing effects to the artist, adding to the energy of the score.
