Das Irish Harp Orchestra (vormals The Belfast harp
Orchestra) besteht aus irischen Harfenistinnen, Bohran-, Pipes-,
Fiddle- Spielern. Gegründet. geleitet, und präsentiert wird es von
Janet Harbison - Komponistin und Irlands Meisterin des Harfenspiels.
Das Irish Harp Orchestra gibt weltweit Konzerte in New York's
Carnegie Hall, Washington DC's, Kennedy Centre, Boston Symphony
Hall, Royal Festival Hall, London, Barbican Centre, Birmingham
Symphony Hall, National Concert Hall, Dublin und in der Münchner
Philharmonie. Es spielte auf Festivals in Milwaukee, in Bonn, auf
dem Festival International de l'Harpe Celtique, Brittany, dem
Lorient Interceltique Festival, dem Carolan Harp Festival und dem
Granard Harp Festival und war die Attraktion in zahlreichen
nationalen und internationalen Fernsehberichten und Filmen,
eingeschlossen die aus der Belfaster Stadthalle übertragene BBC
Millennium-Feier.
Es ist Grammy Preisträger (zusammen mit den Chieftains) und hat bis
heute 8 Alben in Irland veröffentlicht.
"Die sich gegenüberstehenden Elemente seiner musikalischen Tradition
sind in einem universellen Fest der Kulturen vereint" (Sean
Rafferty, BBC).
Das von LAIKA-RECORDS präsentierte Album stellt das Belfast Harp
Orchestra zum ersten Mal in Deutschland vor. 15 Instrumentaltitel
aus den bisherigen Veröffentlichungen wurden ausgewählt und neu
zusammen gestellt.
The Irish Harp Orchestra is a new, young concert troupe of
traditional Irish musicians featuring many current All Ireland
Champions. Based at the heart of Ireland’s cultural capital in
Limerick, the harp orchestra has a national membership comprising
harpers from all over the country, along with uilleann pipes,
highland (or Scottish) pipes, fiddles, flutes, whistles,
concertinas, mandolins and bodhrana! The Harp Orchestra concerts are
always spectacular presentations of Irish music song and dance.
We’re just sorry you can’t see us dancing on the CD!
The idea of the Harp Orchestra evolved from the Grammy Award winning
Belfast Harp Orchestra (1992-2002) which was created by
founder-director Janet Harbison to celebrate the bicentenary of the
Belfast Harper’s Festival, the single most important event in
Ireland’s cultural history.
Janet Harbison was born in Dublin in the mid 1950s at a time of
great renewal and interest in Irish music. Having spent some time as
a child boarding at an Irish language college in Rinn, County
Waterford, her passion for traditional music and song inspired her
career choice which after winning all major national and a number of
prestigious international harp competitions, involved traveling the
world as a performing soloist for a number of years. In 1984, Janet
turned her attention to the 18th century manuscript collection of
harp music gathered at the Belfast Harpers’ Festival of 1792. After
two years as a Junior Research Fellow and a PhD student in
Ethnomusicology at Queen’s University, Janet worked for eight years
as Curator of Music for the Ulster Folk Museum, and for another
eight years as CEO of the Harp Foundation, an organisation
re-establishing the harp and working toward peace and reconciliation
in Northern Irish life. The Harp Orchestras was part of this work.
In 2002, Janet returned to her roots in the Republic of Ireland,
where along with husband Malcolm Gullis, she established the Irish
Harp Centre, a College for the study of Ireland’s national
instrument (and emblem) and a Stage School for traditional Irish
music.
![]() ![]() |
Janet
Harbison & The Belfast Harp Orchestra 15 Tracks / 58:51 Minuten Bereich : IrishFolk VÖ : 30. 10. 2000 Katalognr : 3510131.2 Format: CD, Preis pro CD: 17.- Euro + 3.- Euro
Versandkosten in Deutschland, 7.- Euro ins Ausland inklusive
der derzeit in Deutschland gültigen Mehrwertsteuer. ![]() |