The Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester has appointed Héloïse Carlean Jones principal harpist, beginning March 15, 2025. “I am very excited and honored to be joining the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, an institution with a tradition of over 200 years and which was recently voted ‘Orchestra of the Year’ by the magazine Opernwelt,” Carlean Jones says. “This season the house will perform over 25 productions. I look forward to playing a huge amount of repertoire, including well-known works such as Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, as well as new discoveries for musicians and audience alike, with two operas by the German composer Aribert Reimann. I’m also looking forward to participating in the Symphony and Chamber Music Concerts Series. I can’t wait for this new adventure!”
Carlean Jones is a French harpist of South African heritage, who performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. She has won prizes in competitions in France, the United States, Belgium, and Serbia. She has been featured in solo and chamber music recitals at festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Paris Jeunes Talents, and Dutch Harp Festival. Carlean Jones has performed with orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Orchestre National d’Île-de-France. She won the audition for associate principal harpist of the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine in Paris in 2020.
Carlean Jones holds a master’s degree from the Yale School of Music, as well as a bachelor’s degree in harp performance and a diploma in historical performance practice from the Curtis Institute of Music. In 2023 she received the Konzertexamen Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Her main teachers were Audrey Perrin, Elizabeth Hainen, June Han, and Françoise Verherve.
Learn more about Carlean Jones on her website.
