Lavinia Meijer

Born in 1983, Lavinia Meijer graduated cum laude from the Conservatories of Utrecht and Amsterdam. Starting in 1997, she has won many international competitions, such as the Dutch Harp Competition, the Netherlands Harp Concours, Prinses Christina Concours, International USA Harp Competition, Reinl-Wettbewerb in Vienna, International Harp Competition in Brussels, Lausanne and Lille, and triumphed at the International Competition in Tel Aviv which is considered the most prestigious in the world. A leading performer of world premier interpretations, she has played at the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the Concert Hall in Athens, the, Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Konserthus in Stockholm, the Paleis voor schone kunsten in Brussels and at the Carnegie Hall in New York. Her first CD recorded in 2004 has music by Bach, Haendel, and Scarlatti. At the Filarmonica Laudamo she presents a programme that with music from the past three centuries bears witness to her great versatility.

sunday october 28th 2007 at 6 p.m.
The Savio Theatre

LAVINIA MEIJER
harp

DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Sonata in E major K 380
Sonata in E major K 208
Sonata in A major K 209
(transcription by Lavinia Meijer)

MANUEL DE FALLA
La vida breve: Spanish dance no. 1

MARIUS FLOTHUIS
Pour le tombeau d’Orphée

GIUSEPPE CANTONE
Lilith

EKATERINA WALTHER-KÜHNE
Fantasy on themes from Evgenij Onegin
by Cajkovskij

JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Sonata in E flat major

PAUL PATTERSON
Spiders op. 48

CARLOS SALZEDO
Variations sur un thème dans le style ancien