Joost Willemze (1996) is one of the leading Dutch harpists. At age 16 he was awarded the first prize in the national finals of the Princess Christina Competition in The Hague. In 2017 he won the International Harp Competition in Porto and one year later the Italian competition ‘Suoni d'Arpa’. In 2022 he recorded his debut cd with AVROTROS Klassiek. In 2023 he made a tour of the main concert halls in The Netherlands and won the prestigious Dutch Classical Talent Award, the jury praised his playing as 'harp next level'. That same year he won the 'Grachtenfestivalprijs’, making him Artist in Residence at the 2024 edition of the Grachtenfestival, the largest classical music festival in The Netherlands. Recently he made his solo debut with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Debussy’s Danses Sacrée et Profane at the main stage of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Ik was echt al diep onder de indruk toen je dit in de Kleine Zaal speelde laatst… Echt fantastisch! Hoop echt dat er eens een recital gepland wordt. In februari dus? Ik kan niet wachten! Tot dan!
Joost, ik ben al jaren fan van je. Het is zo mooi om te zien hoe je bent gegroeid en zo'n volleerd harpiste bent geworden! Blijf je muziek spelen en delen met de wereld!
@@igordrm Ops, I apologize - as I went back to look at the music score I realized I got confused with another, entirely different, effect on the strings. The one you see in this video is not a thunder effect, which is in fact a strong glissando in the metal strings. This one is actually a cluster and in my score the notes are written with a square shape (plus, a note explaining to "hit the correspondent strings with the palm of the left hand"). I hope I was clear.
