Players on Volume 1

Four young harpists, having brilliantly finished their music studies, met at Geneva in 1990, with the desire to play together and assemble a repertoire.

A harp quartet? that’s not easy one has to find the scores and then adapt them - which has been done so often before ( often by illustrious composers ). Isabelle Marie, a first prize winner of the Fans Academy started the work. Nathalie Chatelain, Line Gaudard, Isabelle Martin-Achard Moliet are holders of virtuoso awards of the Lausanne Academy, from the class of Chantal Mathieu-Baiavoine. The harp quartet started successfully in Geneva the aim of this formation is the research of a style different to the traditional image of a lounge harpist or the often discreet orchestra harpist.

Since 1990 the great success of the harp quartet proves the interest granted to this research.

Claudine Vellones

The harp quartet has performed many times in Geneva, in all the major towns of Switzerland. in France and Luxembourg. They were invited in March 1994 to Fans to perform at MUSICORA in a concert broadcasted live on several cultural channels. The harp quartet had already inspired several contemporary composers and wishes to further develop their repertoire as well as their instrumental and educational activities.

The Harpege Quartet still performs regularly in Europe. It received and accepted an invitation to the 1999 World Harp Congress in Prague and its four musicians pursue individual careers. The second CD from this rare group of musicians enables them to share an enlarged repertoire.