The USA International Harp Competition presents

USAIHC Spring Benefit Concert

“3x the Gold”

 Streaming May 22, 2021:
2:00 pm (EST), 6:00 pm (GMT)
on Mandolin.com

Three Gold Medalists perform a Benefit Concert for the 12th USA International Harp Competition! Maria Krushevskaya (Russia), Remy van Kesteren (The Netherlands), and Jana Boušková (Czech Republic) perform solo harp music by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Liszt and Dvorak, plus a film soundtrack by van Kesteren (on electric harp).

Tickets
$25 - General Admission
$50 - Silver Patron (includes $25 tax-deductible donation)
$100 - Gold Patron (include $75 tax-deductible donation)
(includes replay for 72 hours)

About the Artists

Maria Krushevskaya (Gold Medalist - 2007) has appeared in recital at major international venues including Carnegie Hall (New York), the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall and the National Concert Hall of Taipei. She also frequently tours throughout France, the US, Hungary, Lithuania, Switzerland and Russia. In addition to her recital activities, Maria Krushevskaya has recorded two CDs (2006 and 2011) featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Elias Parish Alvars, Albert Zabel, Jacques Charpentier, Joseph Jongen, Mikhail Glinka-Mily Balakirev, Carlos Salzedo, Frédéric Chopin and Domenico Scarlatti as well as the world's first-ever recording of a harp version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No 12. Maria is currently the Solo Principal Harpist with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra.

Remy van Kesteren (Gold Medalist - 2013) played in New York’s Carnegie Hall at the age of fifteen and made his debut in the Main hall of The Concertgebouw the following year. Having won many awards and competitions, he performed all over the world, from Europe to the United States, Japan and Africa. Since 2015, Van Kesteren has been exploring other genres such as pop, minimal music and improvisation. He created his own world with his compositions; a blend of electronic music, neo-classical minimal, alternative and triphop influences, where the boundaries between genres evaporate. In collaboration with the harp builder Salvi, he also developed the Réus 49. The new instrument has 49 instead of 47 strings and can be played acoustically as well as electronically.

Jana Boušková (Gold Medalist - 1992) has performed to great acclaim in solo recitals in many of the world’s major concert venues, notably at Lincoln Centre (New York), the Châtelet Theatre in Paris, the Wiener Musikverein, the Prague Spring and Berliner Festtage festivals. As a soloist in the symphony repertoire she has performed with such orchestras as the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonic, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Luzern Symphony, Prague Philharmonia, Chicago Simfonietta, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Symphonieorchester Leipzig, Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, Köln Chamber Philharmonic at prominent concert halls around the world (Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin and Köln Philharmonic, Wiener Musikverein, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Symphony Center in Chicago and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam). She has recorded more than 20 CDs and has transcribed several major compositions of the Czech repertoire, e.g. Vltava by Bedřich Smetana, and the compositions by Antonín Dvořák and Josef Suk. Jana is currently the Principal Harpist of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and is on the faculty at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and the Royal College of Music, London.