Marie-Pierre Langlamet Guest Professor for Harp at the Eisler

Marie-Pierre Langlamet © Marion Ravot

For the winter semester 2021|22, the French harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet will take on a guest professorship at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin.

The Grenoble-born musician has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1993 and has given concerts worldwide as a soloist with renowned chamber music ensembles and orchestras. Because of her services to French music, the harpist was awarded the “Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture in 2009. Marie-Pierre Langlamet has been teaching at the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1995 and led the harp class at the University of the Arts Berlin from 2010 to 2020.

She received her first harp lessons from Elisabeth Fontan-Binoche at the Nice Conservatory and won international competitions at the age of 15. At seventeen she became principal harpist in the Nice Opera Orchestra. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. At the age of twenty she became deputy principal harpist in the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in New York under James Levine. She has won numerous prestigious prizes, including first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York and first prize at the International Harp Competition in Israel (1992). In 2003 she received the Cino del Duca Prize from the Académie des Beaux Arts.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the BBC Philharmonic, the Orquestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orquesta Nacional de Espana, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, among others – internationally outstanding conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Paavo Järvi, Marek Janowski, Juanjo Mena, François-Xavier Roth, Donald Runnicles, Cristian Măcelaru.