Harriet Langley, Violin

Biography

Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1992, Harriet Langley began violin studies in Korea at 4. She continued her studies in Tokyo, Japan with Asako Iwasawa at the Toho Gakuin Music School, and then in New York with Patinka Kopec and Pinchas Zukerman at Manhattan School of Music. She then studied with Augustin Dumay at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth and Josef Rissin at Karlsruhe Musikhochschule. Currently, she studies with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory. On September 11, 2002, she performed with Gil Shaham and Yo-Yo Ma for the 1st anniversary commemoration ceremony of the WTC at Ground Zero. Laureate or finalist of competitions including Yehudi Menuhin, Tibor Varga and Andrea Postacchini (1st prize), she has performed as a soloist with London Chamber Orchestra (dir. Christopher Warren-Green), Verbier Festival Orchestra (dir. Gabor Takacs-Nagy), Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Gyeonggi Philharmonic of Korea, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre Royal Philharmonique de Liège, Reno Philharmonic, Ridgefield Symphony etc. in concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Victoria Hall, Verbier Festival Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, the Royal Palace of Belgium and Windsor Castle.She has recorded two CDs with l’Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège: Vieuxtemps Concerto 7 (2011) and Saint-Saëns Pieces, including Havanaise and Romances (2013).