The harp - instrument of the year 2016 | with Sarah Willis

The 2016 instrument of the year in Germany is the harp. Marie-Pierre Langlamet, principal harpist of the Berlin Philharmonic, talks to Sarah about her instrument - with a little help from Minnie Mouse and Harpo Marx!

Marie-Pierre Langlamet is originally from Grenoble, France. She studied music in France and the United States, and in 1988, she became the deputy principal harpist at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. Marie-Pierre Langlamet has been the principal harpist at the Berlin Philharmonic since 1993. She also teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Sarah Willis is a British-American French horn player. In 2001, she joined the Berlin Philharmonic, becoming the first female member of its brass section.
She was born in Maryland, USA and grew up in Tokyo, Boston, Moscow and London. At age 14 she started playing French horn and then attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department in London, UK. She studied full-time at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK.
In 1991, she moved to Berlin, where she became Second Horn in the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim.

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