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Harp

In these videos, organised by theme, Valeria Kafelnikov, harpist at the Ensemble intercontemporain since 2019, demonstrates the different contemporary extended techniques of the harp. She shares her knowledge and advice on plucked, iterative, muffled and harmonic sounds, gives examples of scordatura and prepared harp, discusses the use of accessories and opens up a new perspective on organology with the chromatic harp.

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

- The contemporary extended techniques are categorised by musical instrument. 
- For each instrument, the extended techniques are grouped by theme; each video corresponds to a theme.
- In each video, you can use the chapters to find a particular playing mode directly in a video. 
- The works mentioned in each video are listed on the right, with interactive links.
- For each instrument, to the right of the first video, you will find the related musical repertoire of all the works mentioned in full: this is an interactive downloadable document. 
- Please note that the sound in the videos may take some time to load. 
 

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1. PRÉSENTATION
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2. PLUCKED SOUNDS
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3. HARMONICS
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4. ITERATIVE SOUNDS
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5. NOISES
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6. MUFFLED SOUNDS

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Valéria Kafelnikov

Valeria Kafelnikov is a highly versatile harpist whose performances range from period instruments to contemporary creation, from solo recitals to chamber music. Born in Kiev to a musical family, her initial piano and harp studies took place at the Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Music school. Moving to France with her family at the age of 12, she pursued harp studies with Isabelle Moretti and Fabrice Pierre at the Paris and Lyon Conservatories (CNSMDP and CNSMDL), whilst also training in instrumental pedagogy. She followed master-classes with György Kurtág and Pierre Boulez. In 2001 and 2002 she took part in the Verbier Youth Orchestra and worked with James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Wolfgang Sawallisch. 

As a soloist, she appears with the Paris ChamberOrchestra, l’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, l’Orchestre Les Siècles, playing under such conductors as Louis Langrée, Kazuki Yamada and Lars Vogt. She is very interested in periodinstruments and in the history of interpretation.She has been a member of François-Xavier Roth’s period instruments orchestra Les Siècles since its creation in 2003. She gives recitals on 18th century harp, Erard harp and modern harp, and is invited by ensembles such as Collegium 21 (Vaclav Luks), l’Orchestre des Champs Elysées (Philippe Herreweghe), Gli Angeli (Stephan MacLeod), le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet). She also shares chamber music projects with Mireille Delunsch, Marion Tassou, Alexis Kossenko, Béla quartett and others. 

A passionate defender of the music of our time, Valeria Kafelnikov joined the Ensemble intercontemporain in 2019, working with composers such as Frédéric Pattar, Mark André, Miquel Urquiza, Roque Rivas, Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, Aurélio Édler-Copes, and many others. 

She teaches at the Conservatoire of the 20th arr. in Paris and at the Bordeaux Pôle Supérieur (PESMD Aquitaine), and gives regular master-classes in France and Europe.