Marie-Pierre Langlamet has been principal harpist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 1993.
Born in Grenoble, she began playing the harp at the age of eight at the Conservatoire de Nice with Élisabeth Fontan Binoche. It was a decisive encounter.
A prizewinner in numerous international competitions from her teens onwards, at the age of 17 she was engaged as solo harpist with the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. She left this position shortly afterwards to continue her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
At the age of twenty, she joined the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, conducted by James Levine. At the same time, she pursued her career as a soloist and chamber musician.
During her five years at the Met, she continued to distinguish herself in a number of international competitions, winning second prize in the Geneva Music Performance Competition, first prize in the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York, and first prize in the International Harp Competition in Israel.
Marie-Pierre Langlamet has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the prestigious Prix Cino del Duca from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2003. In 2009, she was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2011 she was awarded the Grand Prix de la Ville de Nice.
An acclaimed soloist, she has performed with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Paavo Järvi and François-Xavier Roth, and with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Radio France Philharmonic, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Israel Philharmonic and the Seoul Philharmonic. She teaches at the Karajan Akademie and the Berlin University of the Arts.
