Baarn, April 6th 2018
The Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh (1991) signed a contract with Universal Music this week. Her first album with the label Deutsche Grammophon will be released in the Spring of 2019. Harriet Krijgh is one of the most promising cellists of her generation. With her elegant and expressive play she conquers a growing international audience. Her concerts have brought her to all major concert venues in Europe. Last season she made her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons at the Boston Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall New York.
Since I was a little girl, Deutsche Grammophon means something to me. Listening to classical music was poured into me at home. The yellow label always had something sacred and unattainable for me. The fact that I now have the honor to be a member of this legendary music family as a musician touches me. I greatly look forward to our common future and many beautiful projects.
“We have been following Harriet for some years now and we felt the time had come to enter into a long-term partnership with her. She is a great musician, in the very best classical music tradition. The moment she enters the stage and starts playing, there is pure music .”
Harriet Krijgh
“Harriet Krijgh is the artistic leader of International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht. As successor to the founder of the festival, Janine Jansen, she presented her first festival edition in the summer of 2017. The program of this year was released last week.”
Paul Popma – Head of Classics & Jazz, Universal Music BV
‘With Harriet Krijgh’s cello line it seemed a new universe was being born on stage’
– The Boston Globe
‘Harriet Krijgh, with a whole string of competition triumphs behind her, looks set to become something extraordinary’
– The Strad
– As soon as Krijgh’s bow touches the strings, there is nothing but the pure sound of her cello’
– De Volkskrant
‘Musicality and intelligence are her jet engines’
– NRC Handelsblad
Harriet´s festival in Lower Austria at Burg Feistritz will be from July 18 until July 21.
2018 Program
18 JUL THE GRAND OPENING
19:30 OLD RIDING SCHOOL
19 JUL SEHNSUCHTSORTE
17:00 KNIGHTS HALL
19 JUL WERKE DER EWIGKEIT
19:30 OLD RIDING SCHOOL
20 JUL YOUNG TALENTS
17:00 KNIGHTS HALL
20 JUL BÖHMISCHE MÄRCHEN
19:30 OLD RIDING SCHOOL
21 JUL MATINEE
11:00 FEISTRITZ CHURCH
21 JUL HIGH TEA CONCERT
17:00 KNIGHTS HALL
21 JUL BRILLANTE KUNSTWERKE
19:30 OLD RIDING SCHOOL
For more information visit the festival’s website www.harrietandfriends.at.
Harriet Krijgh is the artistic leader of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, which will take place from June 27 until July1 2018.
Together with her musical friends she will lead you through some of the biggest treasures of the chamber music repertoire.
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For more information. Please visit
http://www.kamermuziekfestival.nl/en/
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, New York — theatricality and urgency
A programme of contrasting pieces was superbly conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Source: www.ft.com
Photo by Richard Termine
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducting, gives the premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto with soloists Baiba Skride, Harriet Krijgh and Elsbeth Moser.
More information
classicalvoiceamerica.org
bostonglobe.com
Photo by Winslow Townson
Harriet Krijgh, who grew up in Vienna, is one of today’s most promising young cellists. At Vienna’s Musikverein she tells us about her special relationship with music: “When I play, I always strive to achieve the very, very best.
When you’re playing a concert and become completely immersed in the music, you forget all about technique. You devote yourself completely to making music. And then these very special moments, these ‘magic moments’, happen.”
Source: austria.info
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.
