Music discovery workshop around the Harp

The harp remains one of the most beautiful and fashinating instrument of the world and occupies a position unique in the history of music. It is the oldest known stringed instrument. One of the earliest musical instrument discoveries showed a harp-like instrument on rock paintings dating back to 15,000 BC in France.

Harps come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes and weights. You can find it everywhere, in Europe, America, Africa, South and Southwest Asia, East Asia. It exists Concert Harp, Folk, lever, and Celtic instruments, multi-course harps, chromatics-strung harps, modern electric harps, South American harp, Renaissance or Gothic harp

Sonates en Duo proposes a journey into the discovery of different kinds of music, and styles.
Every musical style let to expand the knowledges and explore new genres that are foreign for children.

Workshop for the Royal Music Academy at Pierre's Fine Piano in Beverly Hills

Nearly everyone enjoys music, whether by listening to it, singing, or playing an instrument.
We are provoked by it. We are moved by it. We are inspired by it. We feel connected to it.

Music education is so important and can be a constructive way to express who you are and what you are feeling. Music builds imagination and intellectual curiosity.

San Diego Franco American School in partnership with the French Conservatory of Music in Beverly Hills

• Classical Music (the Fundamentals):

Sinfonia from the Oratorio "Soloman". Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by George Friedrich HAENDEL - Concert Harp & Soprano Saxophone

Bourrée by Johann KRIEGER - Concert Harp & Alto Flute

• Blues (the genre, which originated with African American communities in the Southern States at the turn of the century, is all about rhythm. Taking it cues from traditional African sounds and western folk music.)

Blue Monk by Thelonius MONK - Concert Harp & Tenor Saxophone

• Celtic Music (a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe).

Port ui Mhurgeasa TRADITIONAL IRISH - Modern electric Harp & Bass

• Latin Music (The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Carribbean south of the United States.)

Cachimbo (Chili) by Sergio ARRIAGADA - Concert Harp & Bass

Habanera (Cuba) TRADITIONAL - Concert Harp & Bass

• RnB Music ( a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.)

All is Said and Done by BEYONCE Feat. Marc Nelson - Concert Harp & Soprano Saxophone

• Rock Music (a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States.

Europa by SANTANA - Modern electric harp & bass

• Africa Soukous (Music from French secouer, "to shake" is a popular genre of dance music from the Congo  Basin. It derived from Congolese rumba in the 1960s and gained popularity in the 1980s in France.)

Soukous TRADITIONAL - Modern electric harp & bass

Preschool Claire Fontaine - French School in Venice

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