Coline-Marie Orliac (born 1989) is a harpist from

Antibes Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. The town of ...

, France. A graduate of the

Curtis Institute of Music The Curtis Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Philadelphia. It offers a performance diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in opera, and a Professional Studies Certificate in opera. All students attend on full scholarship. Hi ...

, she has performed with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic.

Musical education

Orliac studied at the Nice Conservatoire, receiving two diplomas of musical studies and first prizes in harp and piano. She went on to the

, where she studied with Judy Loman, former principal of the Toronto Symphony, and Elizabeth Hainen, principal of the

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. She received a Bachelor of Music degree and was awarded the Joan Hutton Landis Award for Excellence in Academics. Ms. Orliac performed frequently with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Opera Theatre orchestra, and on the Curtis Student Recital Series. While at Curtis, she participated in master classes with María-Luisa Rayan, Isabelle Perrin,

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, Gretchen van Hoesen, and Lionel Party, and she performed in a concert sponsored by the Philadelphia Harp Society. She has also studied with Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche; Judith Liber, former principal harp of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra;

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from the Paris Conservatoire; Marie-Pierre Langlamet, principal harp of the Berlin Philharmonic; and with

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and Elzbieta Szmyt at Indiana University, USA.

Career

In 2006, Ms. Orliac was invited by Claudio Abbado to tour Europe with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. She has also performed with the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Nice, and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia choir, and at the Spivakov Festival in Moscow and the 2015 and 2016

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s. In December 2009, she was invited to perform with the

conducted by Neeme Järvi, and in July 2009, she was a harpist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of

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at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. During the festival, she was also part of the Académie Européene de Musique where she performed chamber music with Jeremy Findler and Luiz Filipe Coelho. Two months prior to this, Ms. Orliac was invited to become a member of the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series, where she regularly performs with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Awards

At the Seventh and Tenth USA International Harp Competition, she was a top prize winner and was twice awarded the Mario Falcao Prize for best performance of the piece written for the competition. She also won first prize in the 2005 UFAM International Harp Competition and second prize in the

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Harp Competition in Moscow — the first French harpist ever to receive this award. In 2008, Ms. Orliac was a prize winner of the Concours International de Harpe de la Cité des Arts de Paris and was the only candidate to be awarded a special prize for the best performance of Damase’s “Thème and Variations”. Additionally, she was named a finalist in the Philadelphia Orchestra Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition and won second prize in the Riverside Symphonia Caprio Young Artists Competition in Lambertville, New Jersey. The same year, she was invited to perform harp-trombone duets at the Tenth

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in Amsterdam.

References

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