Annie Lavoisier

LINK

The Lavoisier website

BIO

Annie Lavoisier, who was born in Reims, was a pupil of Brigitte Sylvestre (harpist with Musique Vivante) then of Francis Pierre (harpist with Pierre Boulez' Domaine Musical and dedicatee of many pieces including Sequenza II by L. Bério). She was one of the youngest harpists of her generation to be initiated into the contemporary repertoire. Her participation in the La Rochelle International Contemporary Music Festival in 1977 decided the direction of her career. Besides her interest in new musical language and in different ways of using the instrument, she frequently works for contemporary composers.
She has seen success in the major international competitions (France 1980, Israel 1982, Munich 1983, Geneva 1986), having won third prize in the International Harp Competition in Gargilesse (France) in 1980 and a special prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music, and fifth prize at the International Harp Contest in Israel in 1982 and a special prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music.
She is also one of the last pupils of the great French master Pierre Jamet, who knew Claude Debussy.
At the age of 20, she was appointed harp soloist at the National Orchestra of Belgium, and two years later at the National Orchestra of Lille. In 1987, she started giving harp lessons at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven. She has been a member of chamber group Oxalys since 1995. She performs the great concertos and has also brought less well known works from the chamber music harp repertoire to audiences in Belgium and abroad. Alongside this work, in 1993 she wrote and performed the music for Hans et Anna, a short animation by Eva Vysnei. Since 2005 she has taught the harp and the specialist method at the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels.