Born in France, Anne-Sophie Bertrand studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor Skaila Kanga, at Brüssels Köniklijk Konservatorium and with the great harp pedagogues, Germaine Lorenzini and Catherine Michel. She is a prizewinner from Cardiff International Harp Contest and is Associate of the Royal Academy of music, where she joined the outstanding teaching team as Visiting Professor in 2018.

Solo Harpist with hr-Sinfonieorchester since 2000, an orchestra whith an outstanding reputation worldwide, Anne-Sophie has toured as a guest with major European Orchestras and worked with renowned conductors all over the world. Solo appearances include concerts at the International Art Festivals in Peking, Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto at the Weilburg Festival, Recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, the Bolivar Hall in Caracas and St David’s Hall in Cardiff.

Sought after for a teaching qualities, Bertrand teaches at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt and is regularly invited to give masterclasses in famous institutions such as the Hochschule für musik in Freiburg, Brussels Conservatoire or the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and serves as a jury member in Bloomington Harp International Competition or at the Concours Francais de la harpe.

A guest with International Festivals such as Campos da Jordão in São Paulo, the International Festival in Prussia Cove, the World Harp Congress, the Cresc Festival, Bertrand is passionate about the chamber music repertoire for harp. Prizewinner with three international competitions for the interpretation of new music, Bertrand wishes to intergrate a contemporary premiere in each of her programmes.

She has worked with such conductor-composers such as Mauricio Kagel, Pierre Boulez, Heinz Holliger, Matthias Pintscher and Nimrod Borenstein.

For more information, visit www.annesophiebertrand.com.

Founded by members of the hr-Sinfonieorchester, Ondine Ensemble aims to discover and enlarge chamber music repertoire with harp in all its musical shapes.

Photo: Ben Knabe