Agenda
Agenda
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Our Berlin showroom is hosting an electric harp day on January 18th, 2020. Ralf Kleeman (the scribe behind the German version of our blue dictionary) will begin with a workshop on amplifying, effects and looping. This will run from 2PM to 6PM with breaks to take in everything you’ve heard; at 8PM, there will be a lounge concert with Arden. Arden is MarieMarie‘s new project: a development away from the synth pop of 2018, towards what she calls her “musical roots” – her voice, and her harp.
Click through to Camac Germany’s agenda for full info in German.
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To celebrate their new Big Blue electroacoustic harp, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London are holding a “Big Blue Bash”! January 21st will be all about exploring the potential of electric harps, pedal and lever, in the expert hands of Eleanor Turner and Tara Minton. They’ll be aided and abetted by the Guildhall Jazz Singers, Freddie Benedict, Tom Early and Ed Babar. Have a go, be inspired and discover new horizons!
Imogen Barford, Head of Harp
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David Lootvoet, Principal Harp with the Opéra de Paris, will be giving a solo recital and a masterclass in Zaragoza on February 1st – 2nd. If you haven’t yet had the chance to experience David’s wonderful musicianship and beautiful repertoire choices, don’t miss this one!
Camac Harps will be represented by Alexander Granados Rodriguez, director of our Spanish/Portuguese distribution, and Camac France’s International Sales Manager Thomas Pontoizeau, for a top-level harp weekend in collaboration with the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón. You can explore our special exhibition, and book in your Camac harp to be regulated free of charge.
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On February 14th, the Alliance Française in Manila is welcoming Camac President Jakez François, and our partners in the Philippines Hans and Jo-Ann Cerdenia, for an evening dedicated to the French harp. Jakez will give a lecture about how Camac harps are made – and he’ll include some jazzy demonstrations…
Jo-Ann Cerdenia’s young students will also take to the stage, to perform French repertoire from Bernard Andrès…to Edith Piaf!
Warmest thanks to Monsieur Jean-Pierre Dumont, Director of the Manilla Alliance Française, for his kind hospitality on this evening.
+63 977 750 6976
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The next Concours Français de La Harpe in Limoges will take place between February 28th – March 1st, 2020. Not been before? Feel curious? Read about 2019’s competition on the Camac blog!
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21 Mar 2020The East of France boasts a particularly vibrant harp scene – it was in Nancy that we celebrated ten years of the Camac festival in 2015, and had to put up giant screens outside the town hall for all the concert visitors who couldn’t get a place inside!On March 21-22, 2020, we return East to Saint Louise, for a Camac weekend featuring:– a special exhibition for the duration of the festival– a workshop and concert with François Pernel– a concert given by the students of Caroline Grandhomme– a lecture about harp performance by Philippe Villa– free regulations of Camac harps by one of our senior techniciansOur warmest thanks to the municipal authorities of Saint Louis, and Caroline Grandhomme, without whom this project could not have come to fruition!
Please reserve via the sign-up form on this page.
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The programme is out for the Godefroid Harp Competition 2020. There are four categories defined by level, and only one age limit (35). You have until March 1st, 2020 to enter, and the competition itself will take place between April 16 – 19 2020, in Tournai in Belgium.
This distinguished contest, now in its eighth edition, is widely-recognised as an excellent way to gain experience on the international competition circuit. Curious harpists will also find preparing it particularly satisfying. The competition celebrates the impressive line-up of harpist composers who all come from Wallonia, and provides the perfect motivation to explore this extensive, lyrical, and often little-known repertoire more deeply. The Camac blog has some more to say about this here.
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The third edition of Harpes au Max will take place between May 14 – 17, 2020! This is a very special event in our calendar, for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a harp festival on a large and highly diverse scale. The harp is fully represented in all its many facets, with artists invited from all over the world. 2020’s artists are still being announced, bit by tempting bit, but a look back at 2018 and 2016‘s editions will give you a good idea of the richness of the festival programming – and, we promise you, with no sign of slowing down this time!
Moreoever, most harp events take place before an audience of harpists. Harpes au Max, on the other hand, is a community festival, filling the town of Ancenis and its environs with harps, and bringing our instrument in all its creativity and diversity to an enthusiastic general public. While we supply instruments, and Jakez François is the festival’s Artistic Director, Camac does not organise Harpes au Max. Everything is masterminded by the civic authorities of the Ancenis region (Communauté de communes du Pays d’Ancenis, the COMPA). The Pays d’Ancenis is the region of Brittany where the Camac workshops have always been based: Harpes au Max is not only for the community, but our community, where we are at home.
For more information as the programme is released, keep a close eye on the Harpes au Max website. As the festival approaches, there will also be plenty to read on the Camac blog.
Harpes au Max: official site
