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Florence Sitruk, artistic director
For the first time in 1999, Florence Sitruk gave a concert in Teignmouth/Devon at the occasion of the 150th year since the death of Elias Parish Alvars. What started small, is today a flourishing initiation in honour of this grand romantic virtuoso, Florence Sitruk has performed as dedicated advocate from Brazil to Tokyo with numerous national premieres. In 2002, the mayor of Teignmouth invited her to unveil the plaque at the place of birth, in 2007 the German parliamentarian society awarded her "The Elias Parish Alvars Prize for an international culture of peace".
Born of Franco-German origin in 1974 in Heidelberg, Florence Sitruk studied at the Paris Conservatory with Marielle Nordmann, and gained the Artist Diploma from Indiana University/USA with Susann McDonald and legendary pianist György Sebök whom she calls decisive for her musical development. In addition, she holds degrees in musicology and philosophy from Freiburg University, and studied historical performance practice with Robert Hill, harpsichordist.
Since her debut at the age of 15 with the Camerata Academica Salzburg under Sandor Végh, she concertizes regularly as a soloist with orchestras such as the Lucerne Festival Strings, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Freiburg Baroque Soloists, the Lithuanian Philharmonic and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Neusser Kammerakademie, the Festival Orquestra da Paz/Brazil, the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra or the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with which she gave her live broadcasted debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall with Parish Alvars' grand Concerto op. 98 with conductors such us Gary Bertini, Andrey Boreyko, Dennis Russel Davies, Donatas Katkus or Robertas Servenikas; chamber music and solo recitals took her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Rudolfinum Prague, Opéra Bastille Paris, the Tower 101 Taipei, the Hamburg Musikhalle, or the Teatro da Paz/Belem, e.a.
Florence Sitruk won more than seven national and international top prizes (Paris, Brussels, Indiana University), among which the 1st prize in the Rome International Competition Valentino Bucchi for Music of the 20th century in 2000 established her on the international platform. She went then on to win the selection of the "Debüt at the DeutschlandRadio" at the Berlin Philharmonic as first German harpist ever. She was also the first harpist to be nominated for the Eurovision Contest of Classical Music in Brussels by the European Broadcasting Union. The current concert season - which also marks 25-years of harp playing - has taken Florence Sitruk to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Brisbane and Tasmania, with a solo recital tour throughout Estonia, to Turqui, as well as to the Musikhalle Hamburg, to the WDR Cologne and to the Festival Heidelberger Frühling. Reinvitations will take her for masterclasses and concerts in 2007/2008 to the Festival Les Muséiques Basel, to Tokyo University Japan, with Ivan Monighetti, Cellist, and the premiere of the double concerto by Krzysztof Meyer to Vilnius, to Jerusalem, to the Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and MDR, to Estonia and St Petersburg, and again to the St. Christopher Festival Vilnius where she has newly been appointed artistic director for harp.
Florence Sitruk is professor of harp at the Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva, and since her appointment in 2005 the youngest professor in her field. It is a position she also holds at the Lithuanian Music Academy Vilnius/Lithuania since the age of 26, where she has established in pioneering work a successful harp department with the help of the German government and the DAAD. With international success, she emphasizes on establishing the harp as a solo instrument through exquisite programmes and world premieres of leading composers of today, such as Jörn Arnecke, Ami Maayani, Robert HP Platz, late Ferenc Farkas, György Kurtag or Bernd Franke with whom she enjoys a close cooperation and consequently premiered their harp concerti.
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