{"id":29881,"date":"2022-07-26T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/?p=29881"},"modified":"2022-07-27T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:34:51","slug":"the-world-harp-congress-cardiff-day-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/en\/latest\/the-world-harp-congress-cardiff-day-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Harp Congress, Cardiff: day four!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, July 25 has been a super-busy day for the Camac team, kicking off with a flurry of harp moving to concerts all over the RWCMD. It was great to see several graduates of our sponsorship projects appearing in Focus on Youth: Natalia Skonieczna (Poland), member of the Acad\u00e9mie Camac 2022; Martin Sadilek (Czech Republic), a prizewinner in the recent F\u00e9lix Godefroid Competition<\/a>; and Janice Hur (South Korea), a Young Talent prizewinner at 2017’s Godefroid Competition who also performed solo at our festival in Washington DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"Tajana<\/a>

Tajana Vukeli\u0107 Pei\u0107, Peter First<\/p><\/div>\n

The sense of family continued with a concert given by Tajana Vukeli\u0107 Pei\u0107, our partner in Croatia. Together with Peter First, Tajana performed an intriguing duo by Charles Reskin (1946-): Three Gestures<\/em> for harp and trumpet, and including a spooky Buddhist ghost in the second movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"Elsa<\/a>

Elsa Garcia, Isabelle Perrin, Heinke Felicitas Geiger<\/p><\/div>\n

We were sorry to have to miss Rhodri Davies’s Experimental Harp performance, having never forgotten his film of burning a harp at the World Harp Congress in Amsterdam (2008). We were, however, cheered by being able to make it to a beautiful performance by Elsa Garcia and Felicitas Geiger half an hour later: a programme of music by women composers from the 19th century. Elsa and Felicitas are both students of Isabelle Perrin in Oslo, and their natural ensemble and choice of fine yet neglected works were lovely to listen to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before lunch, our two Jubil\u00e9 harps appeared together in concert for the first time, in a stunning presentation by Mai Fukui and Caroline Lizotte. Mai played Reiko Hashimoto\u2019s \u2018L\u2019aile \u00e9loign\u00e9e\u2019 (\u201cthe distant wing\u201d), for pedal harp and\u00a0DHC 32<\/a>. This work is inspired by the composer’s love of birds – the DHC is the baby bird!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Caroline Lizotte then took to the stage to perform her Stellar Sonata Op 51 for electroacoustic harp, on our electroacoustic Jubil\u00e9<\/a>. This received a standing ovation, and there was also time to be treated to an encore: a movement from Suite Galactique<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t