Marie Pierre Langlamet performs at the Lyon & Healy 150th Birthday Festival on Thursday June 5 and Friday June 6.Â
1Â What was the moment you knew you wanted to become a harpist?
The moment I stepped into Elizabeth Fontan Binoche’s (my first and unique harp teacher) class-room.
2 What’s your absolute favorite piece to play on the harp and why?
As an encore: Prokofiev Prelude. Perfect length (that is very short), and shows two very contrasted facets of our beautiful instrument: mesmerizing and exciting. Otherwise, my favorite piece is always the piece I am learning at the moment, assuming I was the one to choose it from my own free will of course.
3 Complete this sentence: If I weren’t a harpist, I’d be…
A dancer or a choreographer because listening to music makes me think of lots of gesture. I love the association music and movement.
4Â Favorite food:
All, and in quantity!
5Â Favorite city in the world:
Amsterdam because of its beauty, its canals, its old stones, its narrow streets, its bicycles, its culture, its people, its freedom, its tolerance…
6Â The most important element of good harp technique is:
Knowing how to listen.
7Â What was your first harp?
The Russian harp of the Nice Conservatoire.
8 Name something you’ve never done in your career that’s on your bucket list:
Learn to say NO!
9 What’s the career accomplishment that you’re most proud of?
Being a small piece in the big Berlin Philharmonic Puzzle.
10 What’s the best advice you can give an aspiring harpist?
Let music guide you.
