Clare Cooper

Serious music and humour? Clare Cooper, a young harpist from
Sydney, Australia, combines the seemingly incompatible, with a fair degree of
humour. Free of classical moulds and infused with imagination, courage and
beauty. The range of musical nuance extend from dramatically sonorous fields
skipping to subtle scattered vibrations, crashes and other sudden shifts, in
the context of solo recital and steady resonant textures. And all of this
reveals a new and unique approach to the harp and the guzheng, a traditional
Chinese harp. Clare Cooper is attracted to the research and exploration of new
techniques and expressions that these stringed instruments have to offer, thus
by way of stoppers, forks, cups,bowls, bells as well as other meta-instruments
she combines them in imaginative (dis)harmonies of sound. »Amazing, subtly
brain-dazzling set of improvisation across the harp and guzheng from this Australian
light bulb. Not often you hear a voice as startlingly new as this.« (C. Spencer
Yeh, Volcanic Tongue
2006)

Clare Cooper - harp

Organized by: City of Women; In collaboration with: Cankarjev Dom