Styles Classical / Popular
Counties Bristol • Gloucestershire • Somerset • Wiltshire
Biography
Originally from East Sussex, Marie-France studied the harp at the conservatoire of Besancon and has been playing for many years in the finest venues in the South West of England for such events as:
Wedding civil ceremonies, church services, civil partnerships, receptions, wedding breakfasts, christenings, birthday parties, anniversaries, corporate functions, product launches, dinner functions/parties, charity events, funerals, and many other special occasions.
As she touches this delightfully expressive instrument, Marie-France takes you on a trip into a musical wonderland.
Trained at the Conservatoire de Besancon and the Royal College of Music, Marie-France's flying fingers are equally at home with the classical harp repertoire ... traditional music of the British Isles ... or with popular song ... not forgetting themes from opera, musicals and films.
If you have a favourite romantic song, Marie-France will play it for you.
From The Orangery at Kensington Palace to the Bristol Royal Marriot Hotel (where she is resident harpist), Marie-France brings a touch of class to grace any occasion.
Musical effusions from the harp are the perfect way to make your day really special.
SAMPLE REPERTOIRE
Marie-France has a large repertoire covering many styles of music. However, suggestions or requests are always welcome in advance as Marie-France will only be too happy to find them for you.
Classical
Wedding Processionals and Recessionals (entrance and exit)
Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Chaconne, Hornpipe, Air, La Rejouissance
Mendelsohn - Wedding March from Midsummers Night Dream
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Purcell - Trumpet Voluntary, Trumpet Tune, Roundo
Wagner - Bridal March (Here Comes the Bride)
Suggestions for the Signing:
Albenitz - Sonata in D
Albinoni - Adagio in G
Anon - Variation on a theme of Mozart, Pavane XVIc, Greensleeves
Bach - Air for the G String, Sarabande from Partita 1, Preludes 1 and 8, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Sleepers Wake, Ave Maria (Gounod)
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy, Fur Elise, Minuetto.
Bizet - Habanera from Carmen
Brahms - Celebrated Waltz, Lullaby.
Boccherini - Minuet
Debussy - First Arabesque, Claire de Lune, Little Shepherd.
Delibes - Flower Duet
Dusseck - Sonata in C minor
Elgar - Chanson de Matin, Nimrod from the Enigma Variations.
Faure - In Paradisium
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Gilbert and Sullivan - I am the capitain of the Pinafore, With cat like tread, When a merry maiden marries, When a wooer goes a-wooing and others.
Glinka - Variation on a theme of Mozart
Grandjany - Fantaisie, Prelude number 1
Grieg - Morning from Peer Gynt Suite
Handel - Passacaglia, Theme and Variations, Sarabande and Variations from Suite number 4 , La Rejouissance, Hornpipe and Air from Fireworks music, Concerto in B Flat.
Haydn - Theme Varie
Hasselmann - La Source, Theme and Variations from Haydn
Holst - Jupiter from The Planets
Ivanivici - Waves of the Danube and other Viennese Waltzes
Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
MacDowell - To a Wild Rose
Mason - Joy to the World
Massenet - Meditation
Mozart - Elvira, Opera selections from Magic Flute and Marriage of Figaro
Offenbach - Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffman
Opera selection various Puccini, Verdi and Mozart
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro
Purcell - Trumpet Tune, Trumpet Voluntary, Roundo
Ravel - Bolero, Pavane pour une infante defunte, Pavane
Rodrigo - Second Mouvement Concerto de Aranjuez
Satie - Gymnopedies 1 and 3, Gnossiennes 1
Sibelius - Finlandia
St Saens - The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
Tschaikovsky - Th
