Last year in October Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer released her first solo CD with Channel Classics called "Divertissements", to critical acclaim around the world. On this CD she recorded French harp music by Jacques Ibert, André Caplet and Carlos Salzedo. Classics Today wrote: "If you have room in your collection for only a single solo harp recital, then let it be this disc", giving two tens for both artistic and sound quality. One of her most recent projects was to make a documentary of the "making of a harp". In this film you can get to know the harp better, to see how it’s built and shaped. She went to Chicago to film at the Lyon&Healy harp factory, where her own harp also comes from. Lavinia Meijer also made a special trip to her birth country South-Korea, this was her first time back since her adoption. She was invited to perform the Handel Harp Concerto with the Korean Symphony Orchestra during the New Years Concert at the Seoul Arts Center. "It was a very special feeling to perform in my birth country, I was proud to show them what had become of my life" - Lavinia Meijer. An interview on the Korean TV-station Arirang can be seen on their website here. In 2009, Lavinia Meijer gives her debut as a soloist with the Concertgebouw Kamerorkest, performing Debussy Danses and Ravel Introduction et Allegro. Lavinia Meijer received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2007.

Last updated: February 2009

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"An enchanting and diverting harp recital that can leave you breathless....A bewitching recital from first note to last."
Andrew Farach-Colton, Gramophone, May 2009

"If you have room in your collection for only a single solo  harp recital, then let it be this disc. It features magnificent performance of real harp music...She (Meijer) plays with consummate virtuosity...and with a positively luscious tone"
David Hurwitz, Classics Today, 10 November 2008

Project: Debut Solo CD "Divertissements" (Channel Classics). Released September 2008

• New photos
• Camrecorder
• Travel costs
• Help with expenses for ballet project
• Covered costs for UK showcase concert
• Filming of video/DVD

General Management

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