Biography
Anneleen Lenaerts (born April 26, 1987 in Peer, Flanders, Belgium) is a Belgian harpist . She has been principal harpist with the Vienna Philharmonic since 2010. Vita/Life
Anneleen Lenaerts received her first harp lessons from Lieve Robbroeckx. She completed her master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Jana Bouskova in 2008 with summa cum laude . At the École Normale de Musique de Paris , she completed a course de perfectionnement with Isabelle Perrin . In addition to the harp, she also studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Brussels.
As a soloist she has appeared with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the Collegium Musicum Basel , the Brussels Philharmonic and the Orchester national de Belgique.
Since December 2010 she has been principal harpist of the Vienna Philharmonic , succeeding Xavier de Maistre. Anneleen Lenaerts is one of the leading soloists of her instrument. As a soloist Anneleen has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, the Mozarteum Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, and the National Orchestra of Belgium amongst others.
Anneleen Lenaerts has made her solo debut at venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall New York, Berliner Philharmonie, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wiener Konzerthaus, Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg, Bozar in Brussels and in festivals such as Rheingau Musik Festival, Dresden Musikfestspiele, Lockenhaus festival, Moritzburg Festival and Aspen Music Festival. Solo appearances have been recorded by various stations including BBC 3, Radio France Musique and Deutschlandfunk.
After the success of recording 3 harp concertos (by Glière, Rodrigo and Jongen) with the Brussels Philharmonic for Warner Classics and a CD with works by Schumann & Schubert with clarinetist Dionysis Grammenos, Anneleen signed an exclusive recording artist contract with Warner Classics. 2019 saw the release of a new recording with works by Nino Rota with the Brussels Philharmonic, Adrien Perruchon and Emmanuel Pahud and won an Opus Klassik, after being nominated in 4 different categories. Her previous solo album on Aliud Records comprises twelve transcriptions of some of the most popular piano pieces by Chopin and Liszt. In the same year she also received the “Flemish Community Honours” by the Government of Flanders for her outstanding contributions to society.
From an early age Anneleen started winning an impressive amount of prizes at international harp competitions: 23 prizes between 1997 and 2009. The “Grand Prix International Lily Laskine, where she won the first prize in 2005 and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, where she was both a prizewinner and winner of the Audience Prize, are particularly outstanding.
Discography
2008: Music by Bach, Fauré, Sancan, D'Haene, Renié, Karol Beffa, Walter-Küne. Egan Records
2011: Chopin & Liszt . Transcriptions of works by Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt for harp. Aliud Records
2015: Harp Concertos . Works by Reinhold Glière , Joseph Jongen and Joaquin Rodrigo ; Brussels Philharmonic , conductor Michel Tabachnik , Warner Classics
HarpOboe : music by Ravel, Debussy, Grovlez, Saint-Saëns, together with oboist Karel Schoofs
2016: Schumann & Schubert , transcriptions of works by Robert Schumann , Clara Schumann and Franz Schubert for clarinet and harp, Anneleen Lenaerts (harp) and Dionysis Grammenos (clarinet), Warner Classics
2019: Nino Rota : Works for Harp , with Emmanuel Pahud , Otto Derolez, Brussels Philharmonic under Adrien Perruchon, Warner Classics
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