Marie-Claire Jamet

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Marie-Claire Jamet (born 27 November 1933 in Reims) is a French classical harpist.

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Biography

Marie-Claire Jamet is the daughter of Pierre Jamet, also a harpist.

After winning the 1st prize of harp and the 1st prize of chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris, Marie-Claire Jamet was harp solo of the National Orchestra of Radio France, then soloist of the Ensemble Inter-Contemporain directed by Pierre Boulez. She now dedicates herself to her solo activity.

Marie-Claire Jamet has given more than 2000 concerts in the United States, Europe, Japan, India, Russia, Canada, Australia, etc.

She has created numerous works for harp and orchestra, flute and harp, harp alone. [1]

From 1959 to 1978, she also headed the "Marie-Claire Jamet quintet", [2] composed of a flute, a string trio and a harp.

Christian Lardé, José Sanchez, Jacques Dejean, Colette Lequien  [ fr ] and Pierre Degenne [3] were parts of this renown quintet that left many recordings.

Discography (partial)

Honours

Marie-Claire Jamet was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur 16 March 1995, then an officer 13 July 2012.

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