SPRING 2020 • VOLUME XIII, NO. 6 World Harp congress eviewTHE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WORLD HARP CONGRESS, INC. 14 TH WORLD HARP CONGRESS 14 EG CYNGRES TELYNAU’R BYD CARDIFF, WALES CAERDYDD, CYMRU POSTPONED TO 6-12 AUGUST 2021 WE’RE BUSY ADDING DOWNLOADABLE PDFS… www.harp.com The best site for ordering strings, music and harp accessories. Carve Out Tomorrow Camac Centre Paris Workshop & Offices 92, rue Petit La Richerais BP15 75019 Paris, France 44850 Mouzeil, France www.camac-harps.com WORLD HARP CONGRESS, INC. Founder: Phia Berghout, The Netherlands The World Harp Congress was established in 1981 and incorporated in 1982. It originated from the Harpweeks in The Netherlands, organized by Phia Berghout and Maria Korchinska, that first met in 1960. The WHC is held every three years around the world and seeks to promote the exchange of ideas, stimulate contact, and encourage the composition of new music for the harp. 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MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION Founder: Phia Berghout, The Netherlands Daphne Boden, United Kingdom Founding Chair: Ann Stockton, USA Alexandre Bonnet, The Netherlands Founding Artistic Director: Susann McDonald, USA Clíona Doris, Ireland Founding WHC Review Editor: Linda Wood Rollo, USA Mario Falcao, Portugal/USA Chair Emerita: Patricia Wooster, USA Mercedes Gómez, Mexico Kumiko Inoue, Japan Founding Committee Mieko Inoue, Japan Phia Berghout, The Netherlands Kathy Kienzle, USA Mario Falcao, Portugal/USA Sheila Larchet Cuthbert, Ireland Kumiko Inoue, Japan Susann McDonald, USA Marcela Kozikova, Czechoslovakia Isabelle Perrin, Norway/France Susann McDonald, USA Lieve Robbroeckx, Belgium Sylvia Meyer, USA Natalia Shameyeva, Russia Robert A. Ouimette, USA Ernestine Stoop, The Netherlands Lucile Rosenbloom, USA Helga Storck, Germany Deane Sherman, USA Karen Vaughan, United Kingdom Ann Stockton, USA Linda Wood Rollo, USA Patricia Wooster, USA Elena Zaniboni, Italy BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair: Kathy Kienzle, USA Clíona Doris, Ireland Artistic Director: Isabelle Perrin, Norway/France Mario Falcao, Portugal/USA Associate Artistic Director: Karen Vaughan, Lucrecia Jancsa, Argentina United Kingdom Jung Kwak, Korea Vice-President: Alexandre Bonnet, The Netherlands Marcela Méndez, Argentina Vice-President: Mieko Inoue, Japan Kaori Otake, Japan/Canada Vice-President: Mercedes Gómez, Mexico ¸ Secretary: Lieve Robbroeckx, Belgium Nicoletta Sanzin, Italy Treasurer: Jaymee Haefner, USA SirinErnestine Pancaro˘glu, Stoop, TurkeyThe Netherlands Editor, WHC Review: Isabel Moretón Achsel, Germany Helga Storck, Germany Caryl Thomas, Wales, United Kingdom Milda Agazarian, Russia Guan Wang, China Kirsten Agresta Copely, USA Patricia Wooster, USA Ann Benjamin, USA Angela Yau, China Maria Cristina de Carvalho, Brazil Ann Yeung, USA Dan Yu, China HONORARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bernard Andrès, France Sergiu Natra, Israel Pierre Bartholomée, Belgium Paul Patterson, United Kingdom Marco Betta, Italy Libor Pesek, Czech Republic Robert Freeman, USA R. Murray Schafer, Canada Pierick Houdy, France David del Tredici, USA SPRING 2020 • VOLUME XIII, NO. 6 World Harp congress eviewTHE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WORLD HARP CONGRESS, INC. 14 TH WORLD HARP CONGRESS 14 EG CYNGRES TELYNAU’R BYD CARDIFF, WALES CAERDYDD, CYMRU POSTPONED TO 6-12 AUGUST 2021 CONTENTS SPRING 2020 • VOLUME XIII • NO. 6 3 WORLD HARP CONGRESS NEWS Cover design by Petra Bryan. Letter from the Chair Greetings from the Artistic Director Greetings from the Fourteenth World Harp Congress Chairs and Program Overview Focus on Youth 2020/2021 10 HARP HISTORY Anton Pratté (1796-1875) – Delphine Constantin-Reznik Victor Salvi - Harpist. Entrepreneur. Philanthropist. 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Please visit the website to renew you membership: www.worldharpcongress.com/membership for download on the website to send to the Membership Chair at If you cannot [email protected]. your membership online, you will �ind a registration form If you wish to pay in Euros please contact Alexandre Bonnet at [email protected]. ANNOUNCEMENT Congratulations to St. Petersburg, Russia, host of the 15th World Harp Congress! The co-chairs will be Sofia Kiprskaya and Elizaveta Alexandrova. The Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, venue of the 15th World Harp Congress. www.worldharpcongress.com WORLD HARP CONGRESS NEWS Letter from Greetings from the the Chair Artistic Director Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are so sorry to announce the postponement of the 14th It is with deep sadness that I write this message, as our 14th Congress in Cardiff. You will find in this issue the wonderful pro- WHC planned for July in Cardiff has had to be postponed to gram that the Cardiff team has put together. We hope that seeing August 2021. this will encourage those of you who already registered to carry These past few weeks, the world, our lives and the immediate your registration to the 2021 Congress. Also, if you have already future have drastically changed, impacting us all. But when this purchased airline tickets to Cardiff, you might save money by unprecedented situation is over we will need more than ever to transferring the flight dates to 2021 instead of asking for a refund. bring our music and ourselves together. I sincerely hope that you and your families are healthy and The Cardiff team has done extraordinary work to put togeth- are managing to cope with this world-wide disaster. I am er one of the best programs we have ever had. At this point they especially thinking of those of you who rely on free-lancing for intend to keep it just as planned,hoping that everyone involved concerts and gigs to support yourselves and your families. This will be available for the new dates. must be especially difficult for you. I hope you are able to find As a number of you have already paid for registration (and ways to continue to make music. Many of us are learning new had probably booked your travel), I would suggest that it will