Gwyneth Wentink
Gwyneth Wentink is an internationally acclaimed harpist, cultural entrepreneur and arts advocate working accross many genres and roles. She is founder and director of State of the United Arts, an arts think tank and performance platform and director of Foundation Harp.
News:
Gwyneth Wentink appointed as new member of the prestigious Society of Arts
Gwyneth appointed harp professor at Codarts University Rotterdam
New album release with Richard Chartier on September 6, 2019
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About
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Performing
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As a harpist, Wentink is something of a pioneer. Surprising choices and groundbreaking projects define Wentink as a first class innovator. She has often chosen to experiment with her instrument; playing styles that have led to profound changes in her discipline.
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Solo and Chambermusic
A featured performer on the world’s most prestigious stages, Gwyneth appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw, Kennedy Center and Royal Albert Hall. With her imaginative spirit Wentink has captured audiences on the musical stage in solo and chambermusic settings.
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In Code
An audiovisual performance of Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ for harp, electronics and visuals by Wentink in collaboration with electronica specialist and composer Wouter Snoei and visual artist Arnout Hulskamp.
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Pinkcourtesyphone
A continuing project by Los Angeles-based sound artist Richard Chartier.
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Canto Ostinato Audio Visual
An audiovisual performance with harp, electronica and visuals, based on the groundbreaking composition ‘Canto Ostinato’ by Simeon ten Holt.
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Human Body
A programme of 20th- and 21st-century music for harp, clarinet, electronic textures and the human body itself, exploring the relation between body and sound, frequencies and sensory stimuli.
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English Baroque Soloist and Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique
The EBS and ORR are leading forces on the international music scene. World-class musicians and singers from many nationalities come together to share in the distinctive vision of music director, John Eliot Gardiner, in groundbreaking projects that span eight centuries of musical masterpieces.
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Elements Trio
Elements Trio represents a new standard in global chamber music, combining the unique talents of American saxophonist and composer George Brooks, north Indian violinist and vocalist Kala Ramnath and Wentink.
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Piece of Heart and Vibration
A live performance with harp and a generative audio-visual software application. The live piece is a synergy of live generated visuals and sounds generated by the player’s heart and the harp being played.
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Staalplaat & Wentink
‘Blind Date’ is an electro-acoustic sound machine collaboration between Gwyneth Wentink and Geert-Jan Hobijn (Staalplaat)
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Kirwani Quartet
The Kirwani Quartet brings together Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, one of the most important Indian musicians of the past century, and saxophonist George Brooks, the leading American voice in Indian inspired jazz, with Wentink and Indian tabla master Vijay Ghate.
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Children of Gaza
The composition Children of Gaza by composer Terry Riley is written for Wentink on the occasion of the World Minimal Music Festival 2015.
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Directing
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Gwyneth has spread her talent not only as a harpist and performer, but also as a cultural leader. As initiator of various multidisciplinairy projects, director of Foundation Harp and State of the United Arts, Gwyneth shapes the emerging world of innovation within the art world.
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Stichting Harp
Founded in 1993 with the aim of the development and support of artistic, creative and cultural activities worldwide with a focus on harp- related projects. Wentink has been appointed director in 2013.
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State of the United Arts
An arts think-tank and performance-platform inspired by the common roots of physics, music and science.
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TodaysArt
As a global network for art and creativity, TodaysArt initiates festivals and projects which form transdisciplinary meeting points for forward -thinking ideas. Wentink has been artistic director August 2014- September 2016
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