Camac Blog
Free Online Workshop: Making Hands Work Together with Zuzanna Olbrýs
July 10, 2025
Join Zuzanna Olbrýs for an exciting online workshop happening on July 11th! Designed for late beginners (and beyond), this session offers valuable insights into one of the most essential, yet complex, aspects of learning to play the harp: coordinating the hands. It can sound so simple, can’t it? But we all know better!Read more…
Musikene 2018
March 16, 2018
Musikene, in San Sebastian in the Basque Country, is housed in a splendid new building by architectural studio GAZ, with a dramatic, shiny black and gold exterior evoking the colours of the instruments inside it. We have enjoyed a very successful harp weekend in collaboration with Musikene professors Christine Icart and Julien Marcou, Isabelle Perrin, Ben Creighton Griffiths, Erasmus, Musikene and Camac Ibérica. Read more…
Harpes au Max 2018
March 6, 2018
Harpes au Max is a special festival organised by the COMPA, the civic authorities of our home in Brittany, in partnership with us and the town of Ancenis. It began after we threw a big fortieth birthday celebration in the town - after which, the elected local councillors decided to do it again! We're hugely looking forward to the third festival, and the second official Harpes au Max, over the third weekend of May 2018. Read more…
A harpist spends half their life tuning…
February 2, 2018
...and the other half playing out of tune. Nicolas Lynch-Aird and Jim Woodhouse have published two research papers on the question of how to keep a harp in tune while it is being played. Read more…
