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Marianne Smit (born 1984) is a 
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harpist
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual string (music), strings running at an angle to its sound board (music), soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various way ...
.
Biography
Marianne Smit started playing the harp in 1995 when she was nine years old. Initially she was taught by her mother Gertru Smit-Pasveer, the sister of flutistKathinka Pasveer
Kathinka Pasveer (born 11 June 1959) is a Dutch flautist.
Biography
Kathinka Pasveer was born in Zaandam, The Netherlands, daughter of the conductor Jan Pasveer, who also taught at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdam Conservatory. She stu ...
. After one year she became student of Anke Anderson.
She was among the first to be entered into the Young Talent department of the Amsterdam Conservatory
The Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) is a Dutch conservatoire of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the city's vocational university of arts. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam ...
in 1998, where she received the guidance of Erika Waardenburg.
Her aunt's close associate Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...
composed a harp duet for Smit and Esther Kooi, '' Freude'', which premiered on June 7, 2006 in the Duomo of Milan.
She passed her Bachelor's exam cum laude in June 2007.
Smit has participated in audition training with Petra van der Heide, a harpist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, ) is a Dutch symphony orchestra, based at the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw (concert hall). Considered one of the world's leading orchestras, Queen Beatrix conferred the " ...
. In this course she won the first prize which earned her a spot on the orchestra in two of their concerts. She has participated several times in productions of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
CD recordings
*Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...
- ''Freude für 2 Harfen, 2. Stunde aus Klang (Die 24 Stunden des Tages)'', Marianne Smit and Esther Kooi (2006)
*''Strings Attached'', Dutch Youth String Orchestra, conductor Johannes Leertouwer, with Marianne Smit and Giselle Boeters in ''Concertino in an Old Style'' by Maciej Malecki (2007)
Awards
*Prinses Christina Concours: 1st prize 1998 & 2002 *SJMN Musictalent Concours: 1st prize 1998, 2002 & 2004 *Dutch National Harpconcours: Finalist 2000 *Freude (Joy) - Stockhausen: World Premiere Milan 2006 * Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Music Award (UK): Nomination for performance in season 2008External links
*References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smit, Marianne 1984 births Living people Dutch harpists Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni People from Zaanstad