Roxane
Martin
Harp
Roxane
Martin plays harp since her childhood. She discovered the classical
technique and pedal harp with Gwenaëlle Roussely, chamber
music with Florence Lafitte and educated herself during a decade
within a world in which she had access to the music only in
written form, with precision, detail and complexity. Encounters
with musicians from jazz and traditional music enable her to
enter the world of improvisation and vocal music and she decides
to use the harp to explore “her internal music”.
In 2000 she conceives the group Anwynn : traditional ingredients
to describe the very moment. She made four recordings of which
the last, called "Est-Ouest", was produced in june
2010 in which she explores a repertoire rarely heard for this
instrument, from kletzmer music to bulgarian dances. During
2006 she joins “Compagnie Balagan”, led by François
Heim and works in the field of "néo traditional
music". In 2011 she composed "Imaginales" for
celtic harp, inspired by traditional repertoire she disassembles
and assembles music in a balancing act of improvisation.
In parallel to this she graduated in « Medecine
des Arts » specialised in the pathology of dysfunction
related to the practice of the harp. In 2011, She has been invited
at the 11th World harp congress in Vancouver (Canada). She realised
the first epidemiological survey on harpists, and wrote in 2011
a thesis : " TENSION /RELAXATION : about the posture of
the harpist in Western Europe". She proposes workshops all
over Europe to prevent injuries and improve harpists performances.
Courtesy of www.roxanemartin.com
photo : Yves Muller
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