Agenda
Agenda
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05 May 2022
The opening concert of Camac Harps’s fifth YouTube series will take place on May 5 2022 at 19:30 CET. Veronika Lemishenko, Principal Harpist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, will perform as part of her European tour to raise funds for the Ukrainian war effort.
To enjoy the concert and support Veronika, please join us @ CamacHarpsOfficial for the YouTube premier this coming Thursday. The concert is free of charge to attend, and will remain online for those wishing to catch up later.
Following this, the rest of this series of Les Jeudis de la Harpe will be touring the world! From Brazil to China, Germany to Japan, each concert will take place in a different artist’s home country. The Camac team is looking forward to leading you on a journey through a wonderful variety of settings and, as ever, musical styles.
Follow the itinerary via this agenda and our social media (@CamacHarps), or sign up to our mailing list.
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Our second Jeudi de la Harpe online concert is going to travel far away from Paris – all the way to China, and Beijing’s world-famous Forbidden City concert hall.
We have had the pleasure of working with Guan Wang several times already. She was our honoured guest at the Camac Festival in Belfort (2018), and in 2019 we were delighted to welcome her, her colleagues and many of her students for a musical tour of France.
Professor of Harp at the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and Principal Harpist of the China National Symphony Orchestra, Guan will perform her Jeudi de la Harpe concert with her colleague Ma Wen (cello). Harp and cello is a beautiful and still unusual combination: join us on May 12, 19:30 Paris time on YouTube to experience it for yourselves.
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With their unique blend of blue harp, bass, traditional music and jazz, Christina Braga and Ricardo Medeiros are legends of the harp with Brazilian soul. Camac’s second YouTube concert of the Jeudis de la Harpe, Season V, is a perfect opportunity to experience them in concert: It will be a very special broadcast from Uaná Etê, Cristina and Ricardo’s garden in the heart of the Brazilian forest.
The artists will also be accompanied by a host of Brazilian birds… download the programme to find out more!
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Andreas Mildner (Germany) is one of the most interesting harpists of his generation. His “technical brilliance” and “incredibly beautiful timbres” are praised by audiences and critics alike.
The first prize winner of the 2009 Arpista Ludovico International Competition in Madrid, he is also the winner of numerous other prizes and scholarships, included the German Music Competition, the Bavarian Culture Prize, the Bavarian Kunstförderpreis, from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the German Music Council.
Following an orchestral career as Principal Harpist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Andreas Mildner is now Professor at the Würzburg Hochschule. He is a well-known soloist and chamber musician, also in duos with Heinz Holliger and Andreas Martin Hofmeir.
For Les Jeudis de la Harpe, Andreas Mildner offers us an all-German/Austrian programme: JS Bach’s Italian Concerto, Ernst Krenek’s Sonate für Harfe, and the Spohr C Minor Fantasy.
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June 2’s online concert takes us all the way to Tokyo – for a musical meeting with a dear friend. Mai Fukui, now professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts, is well-known in both Europe and Asia. This Thursday, she has selected a programme to match, with classics of the French solo harp repertoire and “Floating Fireflies”, a new work by Japanese composer Dai Fujikura.
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This Thursday, June 9, Camac’s series of online concerts welcomes Frédéric Bougouin. The electric and the metal-strung lever harp will be centre-stage, and we’re looking forward to travelling from Ourouk to Cuba, from a Carla Bley cover to original compositions, and music written for the theatre and a dear friend. Don’t miss a wonderful musical journey, all within Frédéric’s studio in France!
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Eric Piron and the Camac technicians are looking forward to returning to Danderyd, near Stockholm, for the 7th Sweden Harp Days. Thanks to our valued collaboration with Ismahni Björkman, we can offer you a long weekend of concerts, workshops, a harp exhibition and harp regulation opportunities – all completely free of charge to attend.
Exhibition special requests, pre-orders of strings and accessories which can be brought to Sweden by the Camac team: [email protected].
Reservations for concerts and workshops: Ismahni Björkman, [email protected].
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If you follow Camac’s artistic activites in general, you may already be familiar with Tara Minton. We have supported her since 2011, when she moved from Australia to London to develop her career as a jazz musician.
We have been delighted to invite her to our festivals in Geneva and Cardiff, and to headline at our partnership with the Cambridge Jazz Festival. She has performed at iconic jazz venues throughout the United Kingdom and abroad, and will make her debut at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club on July 18.
Tara has released three fantastic albums: The Tides of Love, Please Do Not Ignore The Mermaid, and – with Ed Babar, with whom she appears for us this Thursday – Two for the Road. Our YouTube concert will broadcast music from this beautiful album, comprised of standards from the Great American Songbook and the British jazz canon.
On June 16, we invite you to sit back, relax, pour yourselves a glass of something refreshing, and enjoy what we promise will be the perfect way to begin your Thursday evening! We look forward to seeing you at 19:30, just a click of the mouse away @CamacHarpsOfficial on YouTube.
