Agenda
Agenda
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We’ll be in Lahr with Camac Harfen Deutschland, over the long weekend of May 10th – 13th. Marion Navarro, teacher at the Städtische Musikschule Lahr, has organised a wonderful, packed programme of events! We are sponsoring François Pernel, the inspiration behind our Excalibur harp, with his Trio Galexya: they will open the festival on Friday, May 11th at 20:30 in the Schlachthof Lahr.
Following this, you won’t want to go home, and there is plenty to keep you busy! A large harp ensemble of professionals and students of the region will perform on the Seeparkbühne (“Zauber im Garten), on Saturday at 4PM. Next up is a recital by Mirjam Weschle and Stephanie Wunsch, two of Marion’s former students, now promising young professionals studying in Stuttgart and Munich respectively. There’ll be musical comedy with Barbara Draeger and Sophie la Harpiste (who we have also invited to our next Camac Festival) – and a very interesting range of workshops.
Kirsten Ecke, professor of harp at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, is also a performance coach. She will give a class on stage fright. I was lucky enough to see this in Ingolstadt last year; it’s really worth attending, and the sort of thing many of us wish we’d had the chance to go to when we were studying, instead of just trying to work it out on our own. Kerstin will also give a masterclass together with her colleague Maria Stange, professor in Karlsruhe and also in Stuttgart. Marion Navarro will give a class on teaching pre-school children the harp: there is more and more interest from this age group, and they need their own methods and literature.
We will be present with an exhibition, and our head technician Enric De Anciola will be delighted to service your Camac harps, free of charge for the duration of the event. Regulations are subject to reservation, so please book one directly with Julia Becker of Camac Harfen Deutschland: [email protected] / +49 30-21971176.
Sign-up form available here.
To book a free regulation of your Camac harp, please contact Julia Becker at Camac Harfen Deutschland: [email protected].
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Members of our French team will be accompanying Camac Harpen Nederland at the Dutch Harp Festival in Utrecht, May 12 – 13 2018. As always, the DHF will offer a particularly creative and innovative programme, and we also wish all Dutch Harp Competition semi-finalists toi toi toi and the best of luck! Don’t forget to find the time to come and see us on our exhibition stand, try out our instruments, beat those waiting lists and offer us your feedback.
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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, in 2016 and now between May 17 – 20, 2018.
Harpes au Max is a party for the harp in all its forms, and in all our instrument’s twenty-first-century energy and diversity. For this weekend in May, the harp will be all over Ancenis and surrounding villages – in the town theatre, in the famous Chapelle des Ursulines, in the Château (where our historical harp collection is also currently on display), in front of the Château in the market square – and in the town library, the shopping centres, in hospitals and schools. We’ve invited artists and ensembles from all over the world – presided over by festival patron Isabelle Perrin – to enjoy the festival together with the artisans from our workshops, their families, friends and our local community.
You can download the full programme on the festival site.
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Our new concert grand harps, Canopée and Art Nouveau, continue their tour! Following the success of their presentation in Wallonia, we will take them to Flanders on June 2nd and 3rd.
Our exhibition will be set up all weekend in the de Singel international arts campus, Antwerp. You can try the new harps, and discuss them and other instruments with representatives from both our Belgian and our French teams. At 5PM on Saturday, June 2nd, our artistic programme will begin. We are delighted to welcome firstly an all-Belgian line-up: young talent Mathilde Wauters, followed by the Belgium Harp Quartet (Sophie Hallynck, Eline Groslot, Aurore Graillet and Emma Wauters). After a dinner break, we are delighted to welcome our guest artist Patrizia Tassini, to give a recital at 8PM.
On Sunday, you have the chance to take part in a masterclass with Patrizia: please reserve your places directly with Pro Arte Antwerpen.
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We are delighted to be organizing the 6th Camac Harp Days in Sweden, between June 15th – 17th, 2o18. We would particularly like to thank our artistic director Ismahni Björkman, and the headmaster of Danderyds Kulturskola, Anders Stengård for his hospitality.
This weekend will be a chance to hear distinguished and internationally renowned harpists, with concerts by François Pernel and Sylvain Blassel. Concert harp students can take part in a masterclass with Sylvain Blassel, and lever harp students can participate in a workshop with François Pernel.
At the same time, our factory technician will be glad to service and regulate your Camac harps.There will also be an exhibition featuring Camac’s full pedal and lever harp range.
Ismahni Björkman
Danderyds Kulturskola – Noragårdsvägen 27, 182 34 DanderydTel: 0736 620 401 – Kansli: 08-568 910 96
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The “Harpy Days” are organised by a group of teachers in the Nantes region, to give students the opportunity to come together, share their music and make progress! Find out more here.
A Camac exhibition will be in situ throughout the day.
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The eleventh edition of the Odyssée de la harpe, the annual festival all about the blue harp, will take place in Bourg-la-Reine on Saturday, June 16th 2018. This festival, created in 2006 thanks to the fantastic efforts of Ghislaine Petit-Volta, has become an essential fixture in the electric harp world calendar, and is responsible for an ever-expanding, substantial body of repertoire for the instrument across diverse genres.
This year, headline artists are Descofar. Nikolaz Cadoret and Alice Soria-Cadoret (harps) and Yvon Molard (percussion) will reveal the electro-Celtic world to us – and will be joined by the harp classes of the Bourg-la-Reine conservatoire! Congratulations to professors Florence Bourdon and Marianne Le Mentec, for their collaboration on this exciting project.
+33 1 41 87 12 84
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Our UK distributors The Early Music Shop are holding a “Hands on Harp” day for complete beginners, in their lovely space at Salts Mill, West Yorkshire. Each workshop will be two hours long, and you have a choice of morning or afternoon sessions. Alice Kirwan and Rhian Evans will be your tutors; they also provide regular harp lessons at the EMS.
Before or after, make the most of your time at the historic Mill and take a look around. There is a particularly good David Hockney collection, not to be missed!
