La nouvelle pièce de Tôn Thât Tiêt, Forêt de Gargilesse, pour sept harpes sera créée lors du festival Harpe en Avesnois, qui pour cette 28è édition, rendra hommage au grand harpiste français Pierre Jamet, à qui Tôn Thât Tiêt a dédié l’oeuvre.
Frédérique Cambreling, Ghislaine Petit-Volta, Annie Lavoisier et Laurence Bancaud seront parmi les harpistes présentes sur scène pour cette création unique.

Tôn Thât Tiêt’s new work Forêt de Gargilesse will have its world premiere at the upcoming Festival Harpe en Avesnois which will celebrate its 28th edition in honour of harpist Pierre Jamet.
Have you ever walked down the main street of the village of Gargilesse during the harp festival in August? Harpists from all over the world take over the village and work on their workshop and concert programs. It is warm, the windows are open and the streets resound with a multitude of crystalline sounds coming from all sides, like a forest of harps, singing and enchanting trees, enveloping the walker in his journey.Such is the sound image that Tôn-Thât Tiêt keeps in memory from his stays in Gargilesse, and it is around this initial idea that his piece for seven harps is woven: Forêt de Gargilesse, written as a tribute to Pierre Jamet.
Among the harpists, Laurence Bancaud, Frédérique Cambreling, Annie Lavoisier and Ghislaine Petit-Volta, will be there on stage to perform the piece.

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