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A day between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic - with Elisa Vellia, l'Espace Camac

Weekend de la Harpe, Conservatoire d'Antony

September 18th, 2011: workshop and concert with EDMAR CASTANEDA

Woo-hoo! It's the new season! The Camac workshops and office desks are back firing on all cylinders - and here is our first upcoming event. And it is...EDMAR CASTANEDA returning to l'Espace Camac! On September 18th, 2011, you have the chance to participate in a workshop with Edmar, from 4 to 6 PM. During this class, you'll be able to explore some of the fundamental principles of Latin jazz improvisation, before hearing the master himself in a solo concert at 7PM.

Edmar Castaneda

As with all our events at l'Espace Camac, admission is free, but you need to reserve your place for the workshop and it's a good idea to do the same for the concert. Please send your name and contact details to Claude Bouly: +33 (0)1 40 40 08 40, or via email at c.bouly@camac-harps.com.

Class of Marie-Pierre Langlamet at the Harfengalerie Camac Berlin

Great news from David and Mike at the Harfengalerie Camac Berlin: Marie-Pierre Langlamet's class from the Universität der Künste Berlin will give a concert at the Harfengalerie, on Sunday July 10th at 7PM. Don't miss this opportunity to hear Berlin's newest harp class!

As ever, entrance is FREE, but as space is limited please reserve your seat, either via email to info@harfengalerie.de, or call +49 30 - 21 97 11 76.

 

 

Alice in Antarctica - webcast of the Antarctica Festival, Australian National University

Alice Giles, as Harpblog has previously reported, has carried out an amazing project in Antarctica - see her "Alice in Antarctica" blog to find out more!

Part of Alice's project included commissioning and premiering music inspired by Antarctica. Now you have a chance to hear this music via a webcast. Alice will give a concert as part of the Antarctica Festival held by the Australian National University School of Music, which will also be streamed live on the internet - find the link to the webcast here. It is a repeat of the concert Alice played at Mawson Station earlier this year, with the addition of visuals, some footage of the outdoor pieces/sounds, and Tegan Peemoeller as guest soprano.

You can listen live on June 26th at 5PM, and the link will stay active for some days afterwards. 

 

 

Marie-Pierre Langlamet at the Crescendo Festival, Berlin, June 8th 2011

Berlin Philharmonic principal harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet is at the centre of a star-studded harp concert: 7PM on June 8th, in the Joseph-Joachim Konzertsaal of the Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin. The concert is to mark the start of Marie-Pierre's position as professor there, and will also feature none other than Fabrice Pierre, Park Stickney, Sylvain Blassel and Julie Palloc.

Here is the programme - the first half is Marie-Pierre solo.

W.A. Mozart: Sonata K 332

Schubert: Impromptu Op 90 Nr. 2 

Debussy: Rêverie et Valse romantique  

Marcel Tournier: Etude de Concert: "Au Matin" 

INTERVAL

Jean-Michel Damase: Sonatine for two harps (Julie Palloc, Marie-Pierre Langlamet) 

Ligeti: 6 Bagatelles (arranged for three harps by Sylvain Blassel)

Bernstein: West Side Story (arranged for four harps by Park Stickney) 

Cesar Franck: Prelude Fugue et Variation (arranged for four harps by Fabrice Pierre)

The concert is part of the UDK's Crescendo Festival: you can download the whole programme below. 

Download Crescendo Festival programme

 

Concert News

Don't forget that Harpblog is always happy to publish your concert news! Send your blurb with jPeg or GIF images to harpblog@camac-harps.com (I can link to a PDF, but the blogging software only accepts images in jPeg or GIF. It is probably possible to customise it so PDFs do display as images, but I don't know how to do it, and sometimes we all need the wisdom to accept the things we cannot change).

The following concert news landed in my inbox this week - many thanks to Ameylia Saad Wu for letting us know!

Concert in Matera with Francesca Cavallo, Claudia Lamanna and Camac Italia

Massimo at Camac Italia has also sent me details of another upcoming event: a triple-fold harp concert at the conservatoire in Matera. Francesca Cavallo and Claudia Lamanna will perform classical programmes, before Marcella Carboni takes to the stage for a concert and presentation about jazz. There will also be a harp exhibition throughout the day. All details in the PDF below!

Download Matera_20maggio2011

Milda Agazarian and Elizaveta Kozina at l'Espace Camac, May 29th 2011

On May 29th, 2011 at l'Espace Camac in Paris, we are delighted to be hosting a masterclass by one of the great Russian harp school professors. We have already had the honour of welcoming Milda Agazarian some years ago, when our showroom was still located in Chaville, but this will be her first masterclass at our premises near the Paris Conservatoire.

Milda Agazarian is a key figure in the Russian harp world. Professor at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow and the Special Gnessin School and College, Milda regularly sits on juries for harp competitions throughout the world. She continues the work of her legendary teachers - Mark Rubin, Xenia Erdeli and Vera Dulova - in the great tradition of the Russian harp school. Don't miss this rare chance to discover more about this school, students of which regularly shine at the world's most important competitions!

The masterclass will be followed by a recital from Milda's student Elizaveta Kozina, who won the first prize of a Camac Atlantide Prestige harp at the Wales International Festival in 2010.

Admission, as ever for our events at l'Espace Camac, is free. As space is limited, please send your reservations to Florence Lédi on +33 6 71 80 56 47 / f.ledi@camac-harps.com.

Concert for Japan, March 29th at L'Espace Camac, 8PM

Tonight at 8PM at our showroom L'Espace Camac in Paris, there will be a free concert collecting donations for the Japan disaster. The programme is a really interesting one featuring many Japanese composers and Japanese traditional music. Please come and support Japan!

PROGRAMME

Toshiro Mayuzumi : Rokudan I, III, V mvmts (harp)

I. Albéniz : Mallorca (guitar)

M. Berthomieu : Arcadie (flute quartet)

Michio Miyagi : La mer du printemps (Japanese traditional music for flute and harp)

L. Spohr: Fantaisie in C Minor (harp)

M. de Falla: La Danse Espagnole 'La Vie Breve' (harp)

Kengyo Yoshizawa : Pièce d'automne (Japanese traditional music) (Koto)

J. Jongen : Valse (harp)

Polyphonies Japonaises (a capella)

W.A. Mozart: Sonate KV. 330, 2nd movement (harp - with special guest, Isabelle Moretti).

With:
Mai Fukui, Rino Kageyama, Eri Hatanaka, Makiko Suzuki, Isabelle Moretti (harp), Rina Kojima (Koto), Gabriele Natilla (guitar), Yugo Kawai, Ti-Chawin Tienchutima, Yu-chieh Cheng, Shu-Ting Lee, Huang Shan-Sheng (flute), and Ensemble Vocal Akané : Maho Ueno, Kazuyo Kimura, Chinatsu Saito, Aki Shirane, Yuka Toyoshima, Yumiko Yamanaka.