Floraleda Sacchi is an Italian harp

Harp

The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

ist, composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and musicologist

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

 born in Como

Como

Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....

.

Biography

She studied music in Italy, United States and Canada, with Lisetta Rossi, Alice Giles, Judy Loman, Alice Chalifoux

Alice Chalifoux

Alice Chalifoux was Principal Harpist with the Cleveland Orchestra from 1931–1974 and, for many years, was its only female member.-Education:...

.
She won prizes, in Italy and abroad, at 16 music competitions. She performed extensively in Europe, North and South America, Asia in concert halls and festivals: Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall (New York), United Nations Palace (New York), Klang-Bogen (Vienna), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Konzerthaus (Belin), Sala Verdi (Milan), Teatro Valle (Rome), Matsuo Hall (Tokyo), Prefectural Hall Alti (Kyoto), Teatro Municipal de Lima (Peru), Salle Varese (Lyon), Gasteig (Munich), Hypo-Kunsthalle (Munich), Concerts de la Croix Rouge (Geneva), Theatre Bellevue (Amsterdam), Gessler Hall (Vancouver), CBC - Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto), Teatro Bibiena (Mantova), Emilia Romagna Festival, Festival Pontino, Lamspringer September, and Rosegart Stiftung (Lucerne).

She plays pedal harp

Pedal harp

The pedal harp is a large and technically modern harp, designed primarily for classical music and played either solo, as part of chamber ensembles, as soloist with or as a section or member in an orchestra...

 (also electro and Celtic harp) as well as historical instruments (single and double action pedal harp). Several composers dedicated to her music. Among them: Peter Machajdik

Peter Machajdik

Peter Machajdík is a contemporary Slovak composer and sound artist. He grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and lives in Berlin, Germany....

, David Clark Little, Dimitri Nicolau

Dimitri Nicolau

Dimitri Nicolau was a composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist, writer and professor. He was born in Keratea, Greece and became a naturalized citizen of Italy...

, Paolo Castaldi, Gianluca Cangemi, Jean Chatillon

Jean Chatillon

Jean Chatillon is a Canadian composer.Chatillon was born of a family of musicians, in 1937, in Nicolet, Quebec. In 1951 he began to play piano and to compose. At first self-taught, then he undertook serious musical studies with the master Conrad Letendre in Montreal...

, Louis Berenguer, Nicola Campogrande

Nicola Campogrande

Nicola Campogrande is an Italian composer, as well as a music journalist.-Biography:He graduated in composition at the Milan and Paris Conservatories....

, Claudia Montero, Gianluca Podio.

She wrote musicological articles related to harp and harpists. Her main book, entitled Elias Parish Alvars

Elias Parish Alvars

Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....

, Life, Music, Documents published in 1999, received the Harpa Award (Prague 1999) in recognition. She edited 18th and 19th century harp music, bringing back to public several forgotten composers (such as Sophia Dussek

Sophia Dussek

Sophia Giustina Dussek née Corri, later Moralt was a Scottish singer, pianist, harpist, and composer of Italian descent. She studied voice with her father, composer, music publisher, and impresario Domenico Corri. Her uncle was composer Natale Corri and her cousin was soprano Fanny Corri-Paltoni...

) and refreshing harp repertoire. She directs the Amadeus Arte sheet music edition.

She is the author of shows uniting music and acting. Among them: Mystery Tales (for actor, harp and string quartet, dedicated to the relation among fantasy and horror literature and music) and Travel to the Moon (for actor, harp and planetarium

Planetarium

A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...

 - presented regularly at Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

's Planetarium) - freely inspired from Cosmicomiche by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...

. From June 2007 she plays live in Ottavia Piccolo

Ottavia Piccolo

Ottavia Piccolo is an Italian theatre and film actress. She has appeared in 45 films since 1962. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival for the film Metello.-Selected filmography:* The Leopard...

's monologue Donna non rieducabile. The show, based on a text by Stefano Massini, remember journalist Anna Politkovskaja. the show was transformed in 2009 by Felice Cappa  into a movie produced by RAI TV with the title "Il sangue, la neve" (The blood, the Snow). Published by PromoMusic in DVD, the movie was presented at 66th Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

.

Since 2006 she is the artistic director of Lake Como Festival.

Prizes and distinctions

• 1996
  • Financial award of Italia Nostra for best student of the year at Como
    Como
    Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....
    
     Conservatory of Music.
  • Financial award of Società Umanitaria (Milan
    Milan
    Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
    
    ).
  • X F. Schubert Competition (Tagliolo, Alessandria
    Alessandria
    -Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum...
    
    ): 3rd prize as soloist
  • XI Rovere d’Oro Prize (San Bartolomeo al Mare
    San Bartolomeo al Mare
    San Bartolomeo al Mare is a comune in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 90 km southwest of Genoa and about 7 km northeast of Imperia...
    
    , Imperia
    Imperia
    Imperia may be:* Imperia , an Italian city* Province of Imperia, the Italian province of the above city of Imperia* IMPERIA, a vodka produced by Russian Standard* Imperia , a statue in Constance, Germany...
    
    ): 2nd prize as soloist
• 1997
  • Viglianoviva Competition (Vigliano, Biella
    Biella
    Biella is a town and comune in the northern Italian region of Piemonte, the capital of the province of the same name, with some 45,800 inhabitants as of 2009. It is located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 80 km west-northwest of Milan.It lies in the foothills of the Alps,...
    
    ): 1st prize as soloist
  • IV A.Gi. Mus. Competition (Varenna
    Varenna
    Varenna is a comune on Lake Como in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km north of Milan and about 20 km northwest of Lecco...
    
    , Lecco
    Lecco
    Lecco is a town of c. 47,760 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan, the capital of the province of Lecco. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como...
    
    ): 1st prize as soloist
  • Concorso Musicale Italiano (Cortemilia
    Cortemilia
    Cortemilia is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km southeast of Turin and about 60 km northeast of Cuneo...
    
    , Cuneo
    Cuneo
    Cuneo is a city and comune in Piedmont, Northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the third largest of Italy’s provinces by area...
    
    ): 2nd prize as soloist
  • Jupiter Competition "Genova 1997" (Genoa
    Genoa
    Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
    
    ): 2nd prize as soloist
• 1998
  • VII TIM – Torneo Internazionale di Musica (Rome): 1st prize ("Diploma d’onore") as soloist
  • Concours Internationaux UFAM – Union des Femmes Artistes et Musiciennes (Paris): 2nd prize as soloist
  • XII Città di Cento Competition (Cento
    Cento
    Cento is a city and comune in the province of Ferrara, part of the region Emilia-Romagna . In Italian "cento" means 100.-History:The name Cento is a reference to the centuriation of the Po Valley...
    
    , Ferrara
    Ferrara
    Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...
    
    ): 3rd prize as soloist
• 1999
  • Harpa Award Prize by World Harp Society, International Harp Centre (Basel
    Basel
    Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
    
    , Switzerland) for her book Elias Parish Alvars: Life, Music, Documents
• 2002
  • TIM - Torneo Internazionale di Musica (Rome), "Diploma d'onore" with Æolian Harp Duo
  • TIM - Torneo Internazionale di Musica (Rome), "Diploma d'onore" as soloist
  • Galbiati-Beltrami Prize (Milan
    Milan
    Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
    
    ), 1st prize with Allegro Ensemble (Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    : Introduction et Allegro
    Introduction and Allegro (Ravel)
    Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet was written by Maurice Ravel in 1905...
    
    , Debussy
    Claude Debussy
    Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
    
    : Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , commonly known by its English title Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration...
    
    )
  • XI "Riviera della Versilia" Competition: 1st prize with Æolian Harp Duo
• 2003
  • Honorary member of Rotary International
    Rotary International
    Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
    
     (Rotary Club Milano Europa) for her artistic careear.
  • Sinfonia Toronto Concerto Competition (Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
    
    , Canada), 2nd prize
• 2007
  • Honorary member of Unione Nazionale Scrittori e Artisti for her artistic careear.

Main discography

• Una storia scritta in cielo. Music composed and performed by Floraleda Sacchi (Multimedia, Como) 1999.
• The Riddle of the Rough. Music by David Clark Little (Adnarim, USA) 2000
• Musica da camera. (Stradivarius
  Stradivarius
  The name Stradivarius is associated with violins built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial...
  
  ) 2002 published also with Amadeus
  Amadeus
  Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...
  
   Journal
• Jan Krtitel Krumpholtz
  Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz
  Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz was a Czech composer and harpist.- Biography :...
  
  : Six sonatas for flute and harp op. 8. Claudio Ferrarini (flute), Floraleda Sacchi (harp). (Aulia) 2005
• Suite en Duo. Claudio Ferrarini (flute), Floraleda Sacchi (harp). Music by: Erik Satie
  Erik Satie
  Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...
  
  ; Philip Glass
  Philip Glass
  Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
  
  ; Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
  
  ; Jean Cras
  Jean Cras
  Jean Émile Paul Cras was a 20th century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages...
  
  ; Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
  
  ; Nino Rota
  Nino Rota
  Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
  
  . (Philips Records
  Philips Records
  Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics company Philips. It was started by "Philips Phonographische Industrie" in 1950. Recordings were made with popular artists of various nationalities and also with classical artists from Germany, France and Holland. Philips also...
  
   - Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
  
  ) 2007
• Chiaroscuro. Floraleda Sacchi (harp). Music composed and performed by Floraleda Sacchi (Amadeus Arte for iTunes
  ITunes
  iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
  
  ). 2007
• Parole Alate. 2 DVD collecting the 3rd edition of Parole Alate, a festival organized by Università degli studi of Milano, to promote ancient Greek literature. Lamberto Puggelli (Director), Dario Del Corno, Giuseppe Zanetto (Texts selection), Floraleda Sacchi (music and arrangements performed on harp). Texts read by: Moni Ovadia
  Moni Ovadia
  Moni Ovadia is an Italian actor, musician, singer and theatrical author. "Moni" is short for "Salomone" .-Career:Ovadia was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1946 to a Jewish family who moved to Milan in Ovadia's early childhood...
  
  , Luciano Virgilio (L'eredità di Pericle), Massimo Foschi, Franco Graziosi
  Franco Graziosi
  Franco Graziosi is a retired Italian actorEntering film in 1960 he has some 27 Italian film and TV appearances between then and 2004...
  
   (La morte di Cesare
  Cesare
  Cesare, the Italian version of the given name Caesar, may refer to:* Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian patriot and writer* Cesare Battisti * Cesare Borgia , Italian general and statesman...
  
  ), Laura Marinoni, Umberto Ceriani, Ferruccio Soleri (Serse
  Serse
  Serse is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto was adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio Stampiglia for an earlier opera of the same name by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694...
  
   e Leonida), Massimo Popolizio (Alexander the Great) (CTU
  CTU
  CTU may refer to:* Catholic Theological Union* Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport * Clinical trials unit* Colorado Technical University* Conservative Trade Unionists* New Zealand Council of Trade Unions...
  
  ). 2008
• Sweet Dreams. Floraleda Sacchi is guest artist in the CD by Neja. (Exclaim. 2008)
• Namah
  Namah
  NAMAH is the title of a CD of music by composer Peter Machajdik.CD © 2008 SF 00542131 [Limited Edition]1. She Will Be Picked by Herself...
  
  . Floraleda Sacchi perform Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne by Peter Machajdik
  Peter Machajdik
  Peter Machajdík is a contemporary Slovak composer and sound artist. He grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and lives in Berlin, Germany....
  
  . (Musica Slovaka, 2008)
• MINIMAL HARP. Floraleda Sacchi (harp & percussion). Music by: Lou Harrison
  Lou Harrison
  Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...
  
  ; Philip Glass
  Philip Glass
  Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
  
  ; György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
  ; Nicola Campogrande
  Nicola Campogrande
  Nicola Campogrande is an Italian composer, as well as a music journalist.-Biography:He graduated in composition at the Milan and Paris Conservatories....
  
  ; Henry Cowell
  Henry Cowell
  Henry Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...
  
  ; John Cage
  John Cage
  John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
  
  ; Peter Machajdik
  Peter Machajdik
  Peter Machajdík is a contemporary Slovak composer and sound artist. He grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and lives in Berlin, Germany....
  
  ; Michael Nyman
  Michael Nyman
  Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
  
  . (Decca
  Decca Records
  Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
  
   - Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
  
  ) 2008. Cat. No. 476 3172
• Sophia Dussek
  Sophia Dussek
  Sophia Giustina Dussek née Corri, later Moralt was a Scottish singer, pianist, harpist, and composer of Italian descent. She studied voice with her father, composer, music publisher, and impresario Domenico Corri. Her uncle was composer Natale Corri and her cousin was soprano Fanny Corri-Paltoni...
  
  : Works for solo Harp. Floraleda Sacchi (arpa). (Tactus). 2009. Cat. No. 772801
• Il Sangue, La Neve. Memorandum su Anna Politkovskaja (DVD). Actor: Ottavia Piccolo. Original Soundrack: Floraleda Sacchi. Text: Stefano Massini. Montaggio: Andrea Nobile. Photography: Gianfranco Saponari. Director: Silvano Piccardi and Felice Cappa. Production RAIDUE PALCOSCENICO, RAITRADE, LA CONTEMPORANEA srl. PromoMusic.it See the movie
• Ave maria Adagios. Floraleda Sacchi (Harfe). (Ozella Music) 2010. Cat. No. OZ030
• Harp Dances. Floraleda Sacchi (Harp). (DECCA
  Decca Records
  Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
  
   - Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
  
  ) 2010. Cat. No. 476 3856
• Evocaciones. Floraleda Sacchi (harp) plays Claudia Montero (Amadeus Arte for iTunes
  ITunes
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  ). 2010
• Harp Favorites. Floraleda Sacchi (arpa). (Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group
  Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
  
  ) 2010. Cat. No. 476 4149. A collection of famous classics by JS Bach, Corelli, Pachelbel, Purcell, Handel...
• Specifications. Floraleda Sacchi (harp), music by David Clark Little, (Amadeus Arte, 2011) Cat. No. AA11002
• Inside the Tree. Floraleda Sacchi (harp), Piero Salvatori (cello), music by Peter Machajdik
  Peter Machajdik
  Peter Machajdík is a contemporary Slovak composer and sound artist. He grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and lives in Berlin, Germany....
  
  , (Amadeus Arte, 2011) Cat. No. AA11003

Audio file

• Felix Godefroid: Etude de concert pour harpe op.193. Floraleda Sacchi (arpa) (live recording)
• Krumpholtz: Sonata op. 8 n. 1 (2. Romance très lente). Floraleda Sacchi (Harp), Claudio Ferrarini (Flute) (live recording)

Publications

• Elias Parish Alvars, Life, Music, Documents: annotated catalogue of his works for harp, piano, orchestra and voice, Odilia Publishing, 1999 - ISBN 3-9521367-1-9. 220 pag, 40 ill.
• "Specchio", a poem with artworks by Cristoforo Mantegazza
  Cristoforo Mantegazza
  Cristoforo Mantegazza was an Italian sculptor who was active from 1464.He was born in Pavia. Among his other works, he collaborated with his brother Antonio on the façade of the Certosa of Pavia , one of the masterworks of northern Italy's Renaissance...
  
  . Pulcino Elefante Editions, February 2004
• "Violette", a poem with artworks by Cristoforo Mantegazza
  Cristoforo Mantegazza
  Cristoforo Mantegazza was an Italian sculptor who was active from 1464.He was born in Pavia. Among his other works, he collaborated with his brother Antonio on the façade of the Certosa of Pavia , one of the masterworks of northern Italy's Renaissance...
  
  . Pulcino Elefante Editions, February 2004

Articles

• "Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  ", HARPA n. 30, 1999
• "Masterclass di Judy Loman", HARPA n. 37, 2000
• "A conversation with Judy Loman", HARPA n. 34, 2000
• "The 7th World Harp Congress", HARPA n. 32-33, 2000
• "Ask it to Salzedo
  Carlos Salzedo
  Carlos Salzedo , was a harpist, composer and conductor, born in Arcachon, France, who was one of the musical elite of his time.-France:...
  
  ", EOLUS Bulletin, HARPA, Autumn 2001
• "Introducing Parish Alvars", American Harp Journal 2009
• "Parish Alvars in Italy", World Harp Congress Review
  World Harp Congress
  The World Harp Congress, Inc. is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to players of the harp, with members in over 50 countries around the world. It was established in 1981....
  
  , 2009
• "Sophia Dussek|Sophia Corri Dussek", World Harp Congress Review, 2009

Harp solos

• "Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
  
  : Album per arpa: Valses Poeticos - Danzas Españolas (2. Oriental, 5. Andaluza, 7. Valenciana, 8. Asturiana). Ut Orpheus, HS 176
• "Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
  : Toccata e fuga in D minor BWV 565". Arrangiamento di Floraleda Sacchi. Ut Orpheus, HS 177.
• "Isaac Albeniz
  Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
  
  : Album per arpa: Suite Española op. 47 (5. Asturias, 8. Cuba) - 2 Danzas Españolas op. 164 (1. Jota, 2. Tango). Ut Orpheus, HS 175
• "Sophia Corri Dussek: Main Works for Solo Harp" (6 Sonatas op. 2, Introduction & Waltz, French Air, C'est l'Amour, La Chasse). Ut Orpheus, HS 174
• "the Baroque Harp": 18 pezzi celebri trascritti per arpa. Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata con Fuga BWV 565; Adagio dal Concerto BWV 974 su un tema di A. Marcello; Preludio n. 1 BWV 846 dal Clavicembalo ben temperato; Adagio. Sinfonia dalla Cantata BWV 156; Tempo di Borea dalla Partita n. 1 per Violino BWV 1002 - Arcangelo Corelli: Adagio dal Concerto Grosso op. 6 n. 4; Adagio dalla Sonata op. 5 n. 5; Giga dalla Sonata op. 5 n. 9 - François Couperin: Sarabanda dal Concert Royal n. 4 - Georg Friedrich Händel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Sinfonia dall'Oratorio Solomon HWV 67; Passacaglia dalla Suite n. 7 HWV 432; Sarabanda dalla Suite n. 4 HWV 437; Larghetto dal Concerto op. 4 n. 6 HWV 294 - Johann Pachelbel: Canone da Canone e Giga PWV 37 - Domenico Paradisi: Toccata dalla Sonata n. 6 per Clavicembalo - Henry Purcell: Hornpipe ZT 685; Hornpipe ZT 570 - Antonio Vivaldi: Largo dal Concerto op. 8 n. 4 «Inverno». Ut Orpheus HS 183
• "Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
  : Three Romances (Fruhlingsglaube, Du bist die Ruh, Standchen)". Arranged by Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  , edited by Floraleda Sacchi. Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  : Illustrazioni della poesia italiana op. 97, vol. 1: Francesco Petrarca". Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  : Fantaisie sur des motifs italiens op. 57". Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  : Ricordi di Napoli: Serenata op. 83, Il Mandolino op. 84, Il Pappagallo op. 85, Marcia op. 87". Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  : Scenes of my Youth or the Pleasures and the Sorrows of an Artist" (9 Romances op. 42, 48, 56 & Gran Fantasia op. 75). Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  : Sultan's Favourite March op. 30 & Travel of a Harpist in the Orient op. 62" (1. Souvenir of Bosphore, 2. Bulgarian Dance, 3. Hebrew Air from Philipolis, 4. Armenian Air, 5. Sultan's Parade March, 6. Greek Song from Santorini). Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Elias Parish Alvars
  Elias Parish Alvars
  Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name to Elias Parish Alvars, and sometimes used the pseudonym Albert Alvars in his publications....
  
  : A Collection of easy pieces" (12 Favourite Airs, Lights and Shadows (2 Romances and a Waltz), Hungarian March, Barcarola, Fantasia on themes from La Figlia del Reggimento by Donizetti, The Plaint of a Young Girl op. 64). Amadeus Arte, 2007

Chamber music

• "Verdi, Giuseppe: Fantasia su temi de 'La Traviata" for Flute and Harp. Edited by Floraleda Sacchi. Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Ernest II von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha: Casilda Fantasia" for Flute and Harp. Edited and corrected by Floraleda Sacchi from the original score by Franz Doppler
  Franz Doppler
  Albert Franz Doppler , was a flute virtuoso and a composer best known for his flute music. He also wrote one German and several Hungarian operas for Budapest, all produced with great success. His ballet music was popular during his lifetime.-Life:Doppler was born in Lemberg...
  
   and Antonio Zamara for Flute, Harp and Orchestra. Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann: Quintette" for Harp and String Quartet. Amadeus Arte, 2007
• "Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
  
  : Am grabe Richard Wagner" for or Harp and String Quartet. Amadeus Arte, 2007

Link

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