Debut Tjasha Gafner

It may be that Tjasha Gafner is no longer able to reel off all her many prizes. She has won twenty awards at competitions around the world over the last ten years. But the most recent one was probably the most important: in 2023, the harpist, who was born in Lausanne in 1999, won the ARD Music Competition in Munich and additionally received the Audience Award. The newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has described her as having “a captivating blend of delicate elegance and musical presence.” Tjasha Gafner, who has been performing on stage since the age of ten, has appeared as a soloist with the London Mozart Players, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Philharmonic. She does not content herself with existing repertoire but crafts fresh transcriptions for her instrument. This is why she will also present her own arrangements of a lute suite by Bach and a piano sonata by Haydn at her Debut concert. In addition, there will be fine, poetic original works by the two French harp legends Marcel Tournier and Henriette Renié, as well as a new composition by the Icelandic composer Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir, written especially for this concert.