Harp Festival: Masterclass with Elisabeth Plank
- 9.30am - 5.15pm
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About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music | Harp Festival
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Location:
- Silk Street Lecture Recital Room
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We're delighted to welcome celebrated Austrian harpist Elisabeth Plank to work with Guildhall students in this free, open masterclass, which kicks off the 2025 Guildhall School Harp Festival: two days of exciting events celebrating the instrument.
Austrian harpist Elisabeth Plank has established herself as an internationally sought-after soloist and ambassador for her instrument. She presents the harp as a versatile and exciting instrument: rich in colours and textures, with its unusual repertoire and a broad stylistic spectrum.
Please click the dropdown menu below to see specific timings for the masterclass sessions. Audience members are welcome to arrive at anytime throughout the day and will be admitted at a suitable point.
The 2025 Guildhall Harp Festival is generously sponsored by Salvi Harps London
Free, no tickets required
Programme & Performers
Session 1:
9.30–11.30am
Session 2:
11.50am – 1.10pm
Session 3:
2.10–3.30pm
Session 4:
3.50–5.10pm
Austrian harpist Elisabeth Plank has established herself as an internationally sought-after soloist and ambassador for her instrument. She presents the harp as a versatile and exciting instrument: rich in colours and textures, with its unusual repertoire and a broad stylistic spectrum. Elisabeth Plank’s ambition to sharpen and broaden the harp’s profile has added musical rediscoveries and new compositions dedicated to her to the harp’s repertoire, as well as many world premiere recordings. It is Elisabeth Plank’s ambition to redefine the harp’s repertoire, by performing and recording newly rediscovered pieces from the past, as well as collaborating with contemporary composers. Her own arrangements have been published by Universal Edition and others.
As recitalist or as soloist with orchestra, Elisabeth has performed in renowned concert halls and festivals in Europe, Japan and Latin America - such as Musikverein Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, Harpa Reykjavík, Konzerthaus Berlin, Grafenegg and NOSPR, as well as at international festivals: MDR Musiksommmer, moselmusikfestival, Bogotá International Music Festival or Festival de Música de Morelia Mexico. She performs with orchestras such as ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Barockensemble der Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener KammerOrchester, NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra or Thüringer Symphoniker, and she has numerous recordings to her name.
Elisabeth Plank is a prizewinner in a number of international competitions. From 2019 to 2021 Elisabeth Plank was artist-in-residence of Wiener Konzerthaus as part of the ‘Great Talent’ series. Besides being a selected artist for Classical Futures Europe, Elisabeth Plank was the first harpist ever chosen as musical ambassador for the New Austrian Sound of Music for 2023/4.
Elisabeth Plank was born in Vienna in 1991 and had her first harp lesson at age seven. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under the tuition of Adelheid Blovsky-Miller and Mirjam Schröder. She also worked with Fabrice Pierre in Brescia. Elisabeth is a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, at international masterclasses and workshops, and is founder and artistic director of Vienna Harp Days.
Venue information
Silk Street Theatre, Music Hall and Lecture Recital Room are located in the main Guildhall School building on Silk Street and for Barbican produced events the venue can also be accessed from the Barbican if you exit via the doors next to Barbican Kitchen on Level G.
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Silk Street
Barbican
EC2Y 8DT
