Harriet Krijgh to follow Janine Jansen as Artistic Director of the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival in 2017

The 24-year-old cellist Harriet Krijgh is the successor designated by Janine Jansen herself. From 2017 Harriet will be the new artistic director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht. Just like Janine Harriet is from Utrecht; she is exactly the same age as Janine when she founded the chamber music festival in 2003, and Harriet is just like Janine in that year, breaking through with dazzling speed as exceptional musician, both in the Netherlands and abroad. In Austria Harriet has built her own festival, “Harriet and Friends’.

Click here for the LINK to the Festival.
Click here to see the article in the Netherland´s newspaper NRC.

“Stars from Tomorrow” – ARTE TV – Harriet as guest on February 21

On February 21st 2016 Harriet Krijgh guested at “Stars of Tomorrow”/ARTE TV. Rolando Villazon hosts young artists who are ready for an international career in the world of classical music. Here watch her contribution: together with the orchestra “Junge Sinfonie Berlin conducted by Giedrė Šlekytė Harriet plays Ernest Bloch’s “Prayer”.

 

Portrait: “Freedom only exists in the moment” (Cicero Magazine, Germany, February 2016)

Dutch cellist Harriet krijgh lives in Vienna, plays in Europe and is the discovery of the season. Through work, that which is natural should never become matter of fact (from Theodora Walchshäusl, Cicero Magazine)

The love of her life has a dark complexion and a mellow voice. “It is a very intimate relationship” says Harriet while glancing at a voluminous cello case. “When we are travelling, it is always with me. Then when I am on stage I can trust him entirely and absolutely let myself go.” A musical love affair with implications: Harriet krijgh is one o the most promising cellists of today. By the European Concert Hall Organisation she was chosen for the project “Rising Stars” which will bring her to leading international concert halls during the 2015/2016 season…

(The portrait can be read in its totality in the most recent issue of the magazine Cicero www.cicero.de)