Are You Still Somewhere? Lavinia Meijer
Album info
Album-Release:
2022
HRA-Release:
01.04.2022
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Artist: Lavinia Meijer
Composer: Olafur Arnalds (1986), Alexandra Streliski (1985), Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Lambert Porcelan
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Showing Me 05:13
- 2 Saman 02:26
- 3 Plus tôt 02:47
- 4 Les Marionnettes 02:42
- 5 Are You Still Somewhere? 03:10
- 6 Porcelain 02:57
- 7 Another Lonely Night 04:44
- 8 Stay in the Dark 03:57
- 9 Born 03:38
- 10 DAMnation 08:09
- 11 Solitude 05:07
- 12 Mom & Dad 05:12
Info for Are You Still Somewhere?
Auf ihrem neuen Album "Are You Still Somewhere?" kombiniert die für ihre genreerweiternden Kollaborationen bekannte Harfenistin Lavinia Meijer eigene Kompositionen und Stücke von aktuellen Komponisten wie Ryuichi Sakamoto, Olafur Arnalds oder Lambert zu einer musikalischen Reflexion über Einsamkeit und Entfremdung. Alle Stücke auf dem Album sind für Lavinia Meijer Kommentare oder Gedanken zu Szenen der Entfremdung und Einsamkeit in der Gesellschaft.
Ein besonderes Highlight ist das Stück "Mom & Dad", das Lavinia Meijer zusammen mit Punk-Legende Iggy Pop geschrieben und aufgenommen hat. Die Komposition ist eine reduzierte und ausdrucksstarke Vertonung eines Gedichts von Iggy Pop, das dieser mit seiner markanten Stimme zu Lavinia Meijers Harfenspiel vorträgt. Die beiden Musiker haben bereits in der Vergangenheit zusammengearbeitet, unter anderem in dem aufsehenerregenden Live-Projekt "An Evening with..." mit Komponisten-Ikone Philip Glass. Ein weiterer Gast-Künstler auf "Are You Still Somewhere?" ist der niederländische Pianist Pieter de Graaf, der Lavinia Meijer bei dem Stück "DAMnation" am Klavier begleitet.
Lavinia Meijer hat schon immer musikalische Grenzen erweitert. Sie wurde in Südkorea geboren und im Alter von 2 Jahren von einem niederländisch-österreichischen Ehepaar adoptiert. Mit 9 Jahren begann sie Harfe zu spielen. Mit 11 Jahren wurde sie am renommierten Konservatorium in Utrecht aufgenommen und mit 14 spielte sie bereits in Symphonieorchestern. Weltweit bekannt wurde sie für ihre den Klang und das Repertoire der Harfe erweiternde Spielweise. Sie spielte Konzerte mit Philip Glass oder Olafur Arnalds und führte Radiohead in klassischen Konzertsälen auf. Ihre Alben "The Glass Effect" und "Voyage" wurden zu internationalen Erfolgen. Lavinia Meijer hat immer wieder mit elektronischer Musik, Jazz, Theatermusik und Avant-Rock experimentiert. Alle diese Einflüsse spiegeln sich auch in den Stücken ihres Albums "Are You Still Somewhere?" und lieferten die Inspiration für ihre eigenen Kompositionen "Ich vermisse bestimmte Elemente im bestehenden Repertoire der Harfe und ich möchte zeigen, dass die Harfe nicht nur ein Teil der alten Geschichte, sondern zeitgemäß ist und sich weiter entwickeln kann", erklärt Lavinia Meijer.
Lavinia Meijer, Harfe
Pieter de Graaf, Klavier (Track 5, 10)
Iggy Pop, Voice (Track 12)
Lavinia Meijer
performs solo concerts in venues worldwide from Carnegie Hall NYC to the Berlin Philharmonie, being one of the most important, pioneering and exciting musicians of our times.
Born in South Korea and adopted at the age of 2, Lavinia Meijer is now based in the Netherlands. At only 9 years old, she started to play the harp. She studied at the conservatories of Utrecht (she was admitted to the conservatory at the age of 11) and Amsterdam, receiving her BA and MA with the highest distinction. Aged only 14, Lavinia Meijer was already performing with symphony orchestras. Her passion to broaden the possibilities of the harp is noteworthy. Not only does Mrs. Meijer search for rare classical solo & orchestral repertoire, she is also always on the alert for contemporary music possibilities, performing together with Òlafur Arnalds and others. She performs pieces by Radiohead in classical venues, to great artistic & critical acclaim and enjoys commercial success for her albums. Ms Meijer tours extensively all over the world in classical and rock venues and at outdoor festivals. Ms Meijer has received numerous awards, including 2 gold discs and a certified platinum disc for the album Metamorphosis / The Hours with pieces by the acclaimed American composer, Philip Glass.
In May 2011 she had the honour to meet Mr. Glass in person, who gave permission for Ms. Meijer to transcribe his 5-piece Metamorphosis for harp. Since then she has transcribed various other works by Philip Glass, including Opening Piece, various movements from the Hours and the main theme from Koyaanisqatsi. In 2014 Lavinia joined Philip Glass again on stage for a sold out concert in Amsterdam. Recently she was invited to perform with Mr. Glass at his Days & Nights Festival in Big Sur, USA. All over the world, Lavinia Meijer mesmerizes audiences with her intense and ground-breaking renditions of Philip Glass repertoire.
Besides performing the classical standard harp repertoire, Mrs. Meijer experiments with electronic music, theatrical music, jazz and avant rock. Composers like Ludwig Ellis-Leone, Garrett Byrnes, Paul Patterson, Carlos Michans, Konstantia Gourzi and JacobTV have all written pieces for Mrs. Meijer. JacobTV wrote her the suite Cities, changing the songs of birds for harp and boombox. This piece, about the poorest in New York society, consisted of music put to samples of conversations from drug-addicted women with criminal records. It caused an instant scandal (some of the audience walked out during the première) and was a sensation among the international harp societies, triggering lengthy and heated debates about the artist’s right to perform “this kind of music” with samples and a boom-box on an instrument like the harp, traditionally considered as ‘angelic’.
Ms. Meijer has performed on international stages such as Carnegie Hall, NYC; Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Paradiso, Amsterdam; Musikverein, Vienna; Carré, Amsterdam; Philharmonie, Berlin, Cité de la Musique, Paris; Bronfman Auditorium,Tel Aviv; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and Seoul Arts Center. As a featured soloist she has performed harp concertos with renowned orchestras such as Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, working with such leading conductors as Andrew Grams, Thierry Fischer, Charles Floyd, Frans Brüggen, Hannu Lintu, and Marco Boni. Ms. Meijer played Bryce Dessner’s exciting piece Aheym as the special chosen guest artist of Kronos Quartet and Mr. Dessner pledged to write her a new composition.
Lavinia Meijer is the only classical artist to have hit the top 10 in the Dutch rock album charts with three consecutive albums. She starred in a TV commercial for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum in 2015. Her albums Passaggio and Voyage were recorded in Berlin by the noted Tonmeister and 15x Grammy Award winner, Andreas Neubronner. Recently she released both Voyage, her seventh solo album with music by Debussy, Tiersen, Satie and Ravel, a live-recording with bandoneonist, Carel Kraayenhof: In Concert and The Glass Effect, to celebrate Philip Glass’s 80th birthday in 2017.
Booklet for Are You Still Somewhere?