STARS OF TOMORROW
CONCERT I
Henriette Urban – Works of the 18th Century on a historical Single Action Harp
Deborah Haag – Contemporary and Experimental Music on the Harp
Henriette Urban – Works of the 18th Century on a historical Single Action Harp
1. Philippe-Jacques Meyer (1737-1819) – Sonata in C Dur
I. Allegro
II. Andante, Non troppo
III. Allegro
From: “Essai sur la vrai manière de jouer de la harpe avec une méthode de l’accorder, Paris 1772”
2. Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz (1747-1790)
Prélude en la mineur
Romance en la mineur
From: “Principes pour la harpe, Paris 1800”
3. Philippe-Jacques Meyer (1737-1819)
Giga in A Moll
Adagio in E Moll
From: “Essai sur la vrai manière de jouer de la harpe avec une méthode de l’accorder, Paris 1772”
4. Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz (1747-1790)
Allegretto in E Moll
5. Christian Hochbrücker (1727-1805) – Sonata 6 in D Dur
I. Allegro
II. Menuetto
III. Allegro
From: “Six Sonates pour la harpe, Paris 1762”
Deborah Haag – Contemporary and Experimental Music on the Harp
1. Heinrich Hartl (*1953) – from: Drei Charakterstücke für Harfe (op. 24): I. Elegie, Langsam
2. Robert Delanoff (*1942) – Stromatolithen (1989) for Harp and Organ
3. Katia Mestrovic (*1989) – Araneae (2021)
Henriette Urban
Henriette Urban, born in 2001, grew up near Hamburg. At the age of 11, she began her training in historical harp at the Hamburg State Youth Music School with Monika Mandelartz. In 2022 she completed her bachelor’s degree in historical harp in the class of Nicolas Achten with honours at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Belgium.
In June 2024 she completed her Master of Performance in the harp class of Flora Papadopoulos at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. In November 2023 she won the ‘Call for a Concert’ competition, as part of the 2nd Harp Biennale Innsbruck, organised by Magret Koell. She also plays in international ensembles such as Scherzi Musicali, La Cetra d’Orfeo, BachWerkVokal, Wroclav Baroque Ensemble and Kölner Akademie. She has also taken part in masterclasses with Johanna Seitz, Mara Galassi and John Griffiths and played in Festivals such as Coudenberg Sound Box Fest and Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.
She started learning the single action pedal harp half a year ago and takes a deep interest in its repertoire and in performing on this instrument in a historical informed way.
Deborah Haag
“My first encounter with Deborah Haag was some time before she began her studies at the HfM Karlsruhe. Even then, I found her to be a very intelligent and lively harpist with an almost insatiable hunger for harp literature and its interpretation. By now, she is studying with me at a technically high level, mastering the classical solo repertoire with remarkable speed while also developing a great curiosity for contemporary music. She has already successfully performed several works by contemporary female composers.“
— Prof. Maria Stange
Deborah Haag (*2004) began learning the piano in 2010 with Wolfgang Weber and started playing the harp in 2012 at the Musikschule Unteres Remstal under Irmela Soldner. She has won first prize multiple times in the Jugend musiziert competition and has enriched numerous events, church services, and (benefit) concerts with her harp playing. Notably, she has performed as a soloist in the Mozart Hall of the Liederhalle and the White Hall of the New Palace in Stuttgart.
In 2020, she was selected as a scholarship holder/participant for the Creative Week of the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Academy for gifted and interested young musicians at the Karlsruhe University of Music. After completing high school, she pursued a one-year part-time church musician training course in Rottenburg am Neckar during the 2022/2023 academic year, successfully passing the C-Prüfung (church music qualification). During this time, she took piano lessons with Nieneke Hamann, organ lessons with Georg Oberauer, and harp lessons with Petra Kruse.
Since October 2023, she has been studying Schulmusik (music education) with harp as her main instrument under Maria Stange at the Karlsruhe University of Music, as well as a teaching degree in physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Starting in January 2025, she will be supported by a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation, which provides interdisciplinary training opportunities.
She has attended masterclasses with Catherine Michel and Mirjam Schröder. As a harpist, she performs both as a soloist and in a duo with Mirjam Laetitia Haag (organist, Naumburg) in various projects and concerts. Her recent orchestral and chamber music projects include: the German premiere of Matthias Hutter’s viola concerto, Händel’s harp concerto, the world premiere of a commissioned work for voice and harp by Veronika Reutz Drobnić, as well as performances at the GEDOK artists’ forum, the Schulmusikorchester, and the Ensemble for New Music at the Karlsruhe University of Music.
Additionally, Deborah Haag is actively involved as a harpist, organist, singer, and choir director in several church communities and is a member of KHG Karlsruhe.
