{"id":4737,"date":"2016-06-20T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harpblog.info\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2017-06-29T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T08:33:30","slug":"camac-festival-pasadena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/en\/uncategorized\/camac-festival-pasadena\/","title":{"rendered":"The Camac Festival will also be in…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…Pasadena CA!\u00a0After a decade of our\u00a0trademark festivals in France<\/a>, \u00a0we are taking our concept to the West Coast of America. \u00a0It\u2019s time to save the date for the Camac Festival, USA.\u00a0Between November 11 – 13, 2016, join us\u00a0for an exceptional program of international artists, \u00a0workshops and masterclasses, across the harp\u2019s many facets.<\/p>\n

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As a wonderful representative of the classical pedal harp, we have invited Chantal Mathieu. Of French origin and Swiss by marriage, Chantal was born in Lille, France. Her music studies started very early, with solf\u00e8ge and music theory at the Lille Conservatory from the age of five!\u00a0 At six, she discovered the harp and the piano.\u00a0 At thirteen, she was a semi-finalist at the 3rd International Harp Competition in Israel, and the following year, she received her First Prize from the Paris Conservatoire. In 1970, she won first prize at the Israel Harp Contest, and a wide range of other prizes followed. She was then appointed Principal Harpist with the prestigious North German Radio Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany, and was also professor at the Conservatory and state music school in the same town.<\/p>\n

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Chantal Mathieu<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1977, she moved to the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and took up a post at the Lausanne Conservatory. She has always laid special emphasis on music of all genres, teaching her students not only the solo repertoire, but also chamber music and contemporary music; she organised jazz seminars, and also embraced the huge wealth of world music there is to enjoy today. Chantal Mathieu also gives masterclasses all over the world, from Japan to Australia, Korea, the United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Russia, the United States, and recently in Brazil and Mexico.<\/p>\n

Her eclectic tastes and her vast talent have led her to premier many new pieces. These include the septet \u201cChantal\u201d <\/i>by Franco Donatoni;\u201cJeux Po\u00e9tiques en 6 mouvements\u201d<\/i> by Jean Fran\u00e7aix; and many new works by composers such Jean-Michel Damase, Bernard Andres, Ami Maayani, Julien-Fran\u00e7ois Zbinden, Eric Gaudibert, Michel Zbar, Thomas Lauck and Michael Jarrell. As a soloist with orchestra, she has performed with major orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic and the <\/i>Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; accompanied by well-known conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Emmanuel Krivine, Gerd Albrecht, Horst Stein, and Heinz Holliger.<\/p>\n

Chantal Mathieu\u2019s discography is also extensive. She has made over twenty recordings, including her well-known discs \u201cBach on the Harp\u201d, \u201cMarcel Tournier Works for Harp\u201d, and – latest album! – \u201cMallorca\u201d. She was Artistic Director of the World Harp Congress in Geneva in 2002, and is currently writing a thesis on medicine in the arts.<\/p>\n

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Janet Harbison<\/p><\/div>\n

Turning to traditional music, we are delighted to welcome\u00a0Janet Harbison<\/a>, doyenne of the Irish harp and the inspiration for the harp we made to her specifications and in her name – the Janet<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0For many years since, Janet has brought\u00a0the Irish harp to audiences nationally and internationally, and has paved the way for many of the new generation of harpers who are the leading performers today. After a career of over 40 years of working in the Arts, Music Education and Peace and Reconcilliation (in Northern Ireland), in 2016 Janet moves her focus to research and writing on the value of oral music learning to universal music education.<\/p>\n

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Camac’s ‘Janet’ Irish harp<\/p><\/div>\n

Janet Harbison has been a prolific composer of new works for the Irish harp, as well as a celebrated arranger with over 100 publications.\u00a0With a strong sense of purpose and value in the music, the harp, its heritage and power to build bridges of friendship, in the course of her 18 years in Northern Ireland Janet established the Belfast Harp Orchestra in 1992 to \u2018tell\u2019 a more harmonious story from the \u2018troubled\u2019 province. Comprising over 20 harpers with guest musicians, singers and dancers, the orchestra performed throughout the western world \u2013 in its own right, and also as guest artistes of the Chieftains (with whom they won a Grammy Award in 1993).<\/p>\n

Galvanising support for the Irish harping revival, \u00a0Janet founded Cl\u00e1rseoir\u00ed na hEireann (‘The Harpers\u2019 Association’) in 1983; organised many summer schools, festivals and conferences, and \u00a0established a permanent facility for the harp at the Irish Harp Centre<\/a>\u00a0in 2002.\u00a0Janet also created the Irish\u00a0Harp Orchestra<\/a> movement – and we’ll be able to profit from her ensemble experience in Pasadena as well, as she leads an ensemble of young harpists in our festival Grand Finale.<\/p>\n

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Addi and Jacq<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to fantastically creative contemporary artists, and ever-more reliable electric and electroacoustic instruments, jazz\/pop harp is a niche no longer. This aspect of\u00a0the harp has been particularly developed in the USA, and\u00a0it is three American artists who will show you just what the contemporary harp can do! We discovered Addi & Jacq<\/a> in Princeton<\/a> last year – not that we were the first to do so, for they’d already won\u00a0the\u00a02015 NPR-WNYC Battle of the Boroughs.\u00a0The Los Angeles Times praised vocalist Addi McDaniel as a \u201ca powerhouse with a brass-plated voice,\u201d and paired with \u201cexceptionally virtuosic and sensitive harpist\u201d Jacqueline Kerrod (Classical Source Online), they bring you a sound that “transcends genre, unlike anything you’ve heard before\u201d (Bob Power, grammy-winning producer). We couldn’t believe we were listening to a duo – their sound is huge, cleverly boosted by loops and processing, and their mix of covers and original songs is quirky, hugely varied and always attention-grabbing.<\/p>\n

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