Agnès Clément
ARD International Competition: First Prize, Audience Prize, Prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned piece
Solo Harp in La Monnaie Symphonic Orchestra, Brussels
Harp Teacher of the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels
CD Le Rossignol en Amour
" Isn’t it true that the sounds of the harp soar directly up to heaven? The program idea of the splendid young French harpist Agnès Clément, who won the ARD competition in 2016, is absolutely compelling: a production featuring music that renders homage to the birds. On her first Genuin CD, she gazes at the nightingale, quarrels with the cuckoo, and flies with the swallow into the spring, as love truly takes wing in the exciting artist’s debut release. We hear Francis Poulenc alongside François Couperin, Franz Liszt together with Paul Hindemith – in the original and in arrangements. Perfectly balanced to the last detail..."
