
This year, the Harpmasters summer school featured a special double masterclass by Germaine Lorenzini and Isabelle Moretti, together! Many thanks to Veronika Lemishenko and Annamaria Gergeley for these reports.
"This year`s Harpmasters was especially bright and fascinating - largely thanks to Germaine Lorenzini and Isabelle Moretti.
They brought us fresh motivation and the desire to develop ourselves, through their experience, knowledge and inspiration!
Firstly, Isabelle Moretti gave a fabulous concert with her delicate musicality and fiery expression of emotion. The following day we had the exciting master-class with the opportunity to learn from such magnificent, experienced and world-class harpists: Isabelle Moretti and Germaine Lorenzini.
Personally for me it was very thrilling to play Fauré's Impromtu to Isabelle, as she herself is one of the world's best interpreters of this piece. And she helped me so much!! Her description of the intricacies of French music was especially interesting and evocative. How to your feelings and desires in your playing, and how to live with the music, became much clearer to me. I hope that I will be able to keep and develop everything that Isabelle Moretti gave me.
And then we had the masterclass from Germaine Lorenzini! It was breathtaking, unusual: in just a few words she brought so much fire and life to the music. She knew exactly what to do! Amazing.
We all were so impressed by this master-class from...MARVELLOUS MUSICIANS!!!
Thanks so much to Camac Harps for sponosoring the Harpmasters Celebrity Guest Programme and for these unforgettable days!
Veronika Lemishenko
"In 2011 for the very first time I experienced Harp Masters Academy in Switzerland. I came away with many emotions trying to fit them in the most suitable "boxes" of my life as a performing artist and as a person .
Thoughts and ideas still go through my mind as thunders ever since I left that place. It takes time and reflection on that massive amount of information, gathered during a very intense period of time.
It needs to settle, flourish and mature like the most exquisite French wine.
There is a reason why I mention French in my description, as I find the French way of performing the most complete, enriching way towards achieving a full bodied artistic result!
It is the sensitivity, it is the fire, the flames and its different shades from bright yellow to dark red and purple, it is the flirtation with every single note, and the courage to court the most majestic sounds and go beyond those fears of being on stage while attempting to reach out to the audiences' deepest emotions, grab them and take them on a musical journey. Your journey!
When interpreting music one must dare to let it flow or to cut it short, one must dare to shock and to absorb, one must dare to run away in flames and return like the most peaceful sea of waves and calmness.
Music is passion in the true sense of the word! Passion for love, life and giving!
Music making is probably one of the most complex professions one can have, if trying to get to the highest possible level. It' s not easy but it is not impossible, and the latter should be kept deep inside our minds. It needs an immense amount of focusing, thinking, and intelligent practice of personally suitable technique and interpretation. Every note must be thought through, every note has to become our second nature, every note has to come as the most natural continuance of our emotions, with consideration towards the composer's message, the musical period's rules and expectations, so that as a result we may reach full aesthetic entity.
Isabelle Moretti and Germaine Lorenzini pulled and pushed all these emotions through my inner being and dipped it into their fantastic world of passion, intelligence and fire.
I will be forever thankful for those hours of happiness and pure joy of being with the most amazing two harpists and professors I have ever met!"
Annamaria Gergeley