LAVINIA MEIJER, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED HARPISTS, RELEASES NEW ALBUM ON APRIL 1, 2022. FEATURING ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF WORKS BY THE LIKES OF RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, ÓLAFUR ARNALDS, AND ALEXANDRA STRELISKI.   Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of the brand-new album from LAVINIA MEIJER, a pioneering and exciting […]

Op 21, 22 en 23 December 2021 geeft Lavinia Meijer een feestelijk concert (twee sets van een half uur) tijdens een uitgebreide High Tea in het prachtige College Hotel in Amsterdam. Het evenement vindt plaats tussen 15:00-17:00u. en houdt rekening met de 1,5 meter afstand. U kunt via deze link kaartjes kopen: College Hotel   

Lavinia will be performing at Adult Swim Festival November 12-13 on YouTube This festival is virtual, free and available to global audience! Lavinia’s performance and the festival is different from anything anywhere else in the history of the universe There will be music, comedy, show panels, watch parties and other weird adult swim stuff + more […]

Today on BBCRadio3 (13:00-15:00): Harpist Lavinia Meijer uncovers the important role the harp once had in tango music, finds composer Brad Meldau in the kitchen and follows Johann Strauss’s journey down the Danube. She also discovers that you can never assume how Beethoven will sound, and plays some mesmeric music by Philip Glass. A series […]

In THIS GROUND brengen tablaspeler Heiko Dijker en harpiste Lavinia Meijer de klassieke westerse muziek en de klassieke Indiase muziek samen in verschillende bewerkingen en improvisaties. Via de muziek van Philip Glass, een van grondleggers van de minimal music, die sterk beïnvloed is door de Indiase sitarspeler Ravi Shankar, kwam Lavinia in contact met Heiko […]

Lavinia Meijer met clubtour langs Nederlandse podia Nederlands bekendste harpiste Lavinia Meijer doet met haar ‘DETOUR’ clubtour twaalf Nederlandse podia aan. De tour wordt op 24 april afgetrapt in Paradiso in Amsterdam. Alle concerten worden coronaproof ingericht. Op vrijdag 12 maart om 10:00 uur start de kaartverkoop. Veelzijdige harpiste Lavinia Meijer (1983), winnares van de […]

In het weekend van 15 en 16 mei vindt de Dutch Harp Festival bij je thuis plaats! Het Dutch Harp Festival vindt dit jaar plaats als een online festival met onder andere:Remy van Kesteren, Lavinia Meijer en Tom Monger (harpist bij Florence + The Machine) Met twee livestreams vanuit TivoliVredenburg en een derde livestream met optredens van de artiesten die niet […]

Unfortunately it will take some time until performances will be fully up and running again, but sitting still is no option: In the meantime I will offer a nice experiment, a 22-mini-concerts-event for the month June and hope you like to be part of it! Please visit: www.homeconcerts.laviniameijer.com where you can register with a donation […]

Philip Glass, Iggy Pop and Lavinia Meijer will perform together in June 2020 (9-13 June in Groningen-Oosterpoort, TivoliVredenburg Utrecht, Amsterdam-Carré and Rotterdam-De Doelen). An evening filled with poetry and music by the famous American composer of, among others, The Hours, Glassworks and Einstein on the beach. A surprising combination of three internationally recognized artists with […]

Last Saturday, March 24th it was time for Earth Hour: Lavinia had an intimate moment with an immense bridge, the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam, where the lights went off after Lavinia’s performance in the studio. Lavinia: “Thank you Earth Hour, NOS and WNF (WWF)!” Starting as a symbolic lights out event in Sydney in 2007, […]

“Do you know that my harp is inspired by the Empire State Building in NYC?” — Lavinia Lavinia went to NYC the beginning of March because of the Tibet House US 31st Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall New York with Philip Glass, Carly Simon, Patty Smith and many other great artists. Photo: Ilya S. […]

Lavinia’s time in South-Korea was filled with fantastic experiences. Firstly she performed in the PyongChang Winter Music Festival in the Seoul Arts Center, Chuncheon Arts Center and the Gangneung Arts Center. With Sony Korea she gave several interviews for newspapers, magazines and TV for her new single Arirang, which was very well received! Then she […]

During the Hart for Women Charity diner in Noordwijk on Valentine’s Day, Lavinia had the privilege to perform together with cabaretier Freek de Jonge and his wife Hella de Jonge. They performed a couple of Freek’s songs and also a combination of Satie and his text. This photo was made just before they had to […]

We are very happy to announce that yesterday Lavinia’s brand new single Arirang is out on all digital platforms! Her arrangement of Arirang is a tribute to her country of birth and to celebrate the upcoming Winter Olympics in South-Korea, where she will be going to as well. To perform and enjoy some of the […]

Last Wednesday, Lavinia performed the world premiere of Simpler Language by Ellis Ludwig-Leone, specially written for her. This was during the Chamber Music Series at the Deventer Schouwburg, where she had invited flutist Peter Verduyn-Lunel, viola player Mikhail Zemtsov and percussionist Christiaan Saris to join her. Ellis Ludwig-Leone is a 28-year old composer and songwriter […]

Today Lavinia’s performance with French DJ Maud Geffray is online! She made half an hour of music inspired by Philip Glass for Culturebox (French television). Lavinia: “It was an amazing project, hope we can bring it live elsewhere as well!” Check here this amazing show.

Lavinia is looking back to an amazing time in Cardiff, Wales. She was performing a solo evening and giving a masterclass to the harp students of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Lavinia: ‘It is so nice to work on the phrasings, finesse and expression with the students. Sometimes just making them aware […]

As the ambassador of Save a Child’s Heart, Lavinia had specially designed hot water bottles to share and give as gifts during the holiday season. Each child of Save a Child’s Heart will receive one with each purchased bottle and the profits will go to the charity as well. Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) is […]

Last week Lavinia performed during the Days & Nights festival of Philip Glass in Carmel, California. Philip Glass wrote a special harp part for her in his new piece “Is Infinity Odd or Even” with texts by Arturo Bejar. She also performed together with Laurie Anderson, one of her great inspirators. An unforgettable week! Read […]

The theater-music performance Brief aan mijn dochter (Letter to my daughter) is the newest project of Lavinia Meijer, together with writer Abdelkader Benali and percussionist Christiaan Saris. They will tour from today on (first Try-out in Beverwijk, Monday official Premiere at the Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam) till Christmas, in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Touring […]

Lavinia’s interview about her new album The Glass Effect in the German Classic and Jazz music magazine RONDO:

The album In Concert from Lavinia and bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof has been nominated for the Edison Audience Award 2016. To bring out your vote, please visit: Edison 2016 It is the first time that this unique combination of bandoneon and harp has been nominated for an Edison, your vote certainly counts! Deadline is this […]

Today Lavinia’s new album The Glass Effect was released internationally by Sony Music. The album is a special tribute to Philip Glass to mark his 80th birthday this January. The double album includes 10 Etudes, Koyaanisqatsi theme and works by Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Ellis Ludwig-Leone and a remix of Koyaanisqatsi […]

On 19th October Lavinia will come to New York to perform music from her upcoming album The Glass Effect. Music by Philip Glass and Bryce Dessner at the National Sawdust in New York. For tickets: National Sawdust Program: P. Glass – Koyaanisqatsi theme B. Dessner – Suite for Harp P. Glass Etudes 1, 2, 5, […]

Lavinia’s new album The Glass Effect will be released worldwide on November 4. This double album includes the theme of Koyaanisqatsi and 10 Etudes by Philip Glass. Lavinia: “This tribute album is about the effect Glass’s music has on me and his influence on the younger generation composers. His music connected me to the younger […]

Together with bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof, Lavinia will perform at the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ in Amsterdam on May 5th, music from their Live album. https://www.muziekgebouw.nl/agenda/Concerten/4953/Lavinia_Meijer_Carel_Kraayenhof/5_mei_concert/

Lavinia has been invited by Philip Glass to perform in concert with him at the Carnegie Hall in New York on February 22nd. Amongst other artists that evening is Iggy Pop, with whom she and Philip Glass will perform a tribute piece to David Bowie. For more information: Carnegie Hall

On March 19 & 20 2016 Lavinia will give a Masterclass in Amersfoort (for all levels of harpists). For more information, please contact Judith Campman: judithcampman@live.nl.

Lavinia will be recording a live album with the bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof. This unique combination of harp and bandoneon resulted in transcriptions of music by Piazzolla, Kraayenhof, Morricone, Granados, Albeniz, Cardoso, Bacalov a.o. They will record this album at Tivoli Utrecht on 7 and 9 September. The release will be in the beginning of […]

Philip Glass will organize his Days&Nights Festival in California this fall and he invited Lavinia to be part of this. It will be held at the Philip Glass Center in Big Sur, California on September 25-27. For more information: Days&Nights.

Lavinia will return to her high school city Arnhem on the 26th of June for a acoustic/electronic concert at Luxor. Solo and with guest player Arthur Antoine, she will perform music by Tiersen, Glass, Einaudi, Horner and many more! Luxorlive

Sunday 26th April Lavinia will be a guest at the new show of Paul Witteman in Podium Witteman. She will perform Clair de Lune and talk about her latest album Voyage, her release on vinyl and her upcoming concert in Carré.

Lavinia’s album Voyage will be released on vinyl on Record Store Day on the 18th of April. She’ll be giving instores in Leiden, Delft, the Hague and Utrecht that day. Leiden (Velvet, 10:30), Delft (Velvet, 13:00), the Hague (Paagman, 15:00), and Utrecht (Plato, 17:30). Vinyl lovers: come to see and feel this special “soft touch” […]

Lavinia Meijer will perform in the legendary Carré (Amsterdam) on May 24th. Both acoustic music and electronic, where she will be joined on stage by Arthur Antoine with new pieces inspired by Philip Glass, James Horner and Yann Tiersen. For more information and tickets: CARRÉ

This week the album Voyage entered the Dutch charts on the 9th place! Dutch charts

Last night Lavinia was a featured guest in the TV show De Wereld Draait Door. Watch back the item in DWDD, where she explains about the music and performs as well. With her at the table is painter, actor, director Jeroen Krabbé who explains about the texts he wrote in the booklet and the references […]

The album is out! Tonight Lavinia will be in De Wereld Draait Door. Through this website all Dutch orders will receive Lavinia’s signature this month. Other online options are Amazon or iTunes Instores coming up with a highlighted concert at Carré on May 24th.

This coming Friday, March 20th., Lavinia will be featured guest at the Dutch TV show De Wereld Draait Door. Together with Jeroen Krabbé, who wrote a personal story in the booklet, she will explain about the music and perform several pieces from Voyage.

This coming Friday, March 20th, Lavinia’s new album Voyage will be released. On this album she combines masterworks by Debussy and Ravel, including two works with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, with arranged pieces by Satie and Tiersen. Read more about this album in “New album Voyage” on the homepage.

On 8 December (Concertgebouw Amsterdam) and 20 December (Muziekgebouw Eindhoven) Lavinia will be sharing the stage with the famous Dutch journalist/presenter Twan Huys. He will talk about his experiences from his program College Tour, in which he has interviewed world-famous persons like Bill Gates, Susan Sarandon and Desmond Tutu. Together with the music of four […]

Lavinia will be performing a duo concert with bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof. A program around South-Amercian music at De Doelen (main hall) in Rotterdam on November 2nd. http://www.dedoelen.nl/nl/concerten/agenda/4951/zondagochtendconcert/carel_kraayenhof_lavinia_meijer/

On November 4th Lavinia will be joining the Dutch king and queen on their state visit to Korea in November, giving a solo concert at the RAUM in Seoul on their last day as a special present to the first female president Park Geun-hye. http://nos.nl/koningshuis/artikel/700782-harpiste-met-koning-naar-zkorea.html

Coming up next month: Reprise of the successful tour with the Attacca ensemble! An evening of music by Philip Glass (from Hydrogen Jukebox, Akhnaten and many more) in Rotterdam (Lantaren-Venster: 16 Nov.), The Hague (Paard van Troje: 22 Nov.), Nijmegen (Vereeniging: 28 Nov.) and Groningen (Oosterpoort: 30 Nov.). A last chance to see it!

For the third time Lavinia will be performing in concert with Philip Glass. On May 11th he will give an evening with friends at the Melkweg in Amsterdam. For tickets, please visit: Melkweg.

Tonight Lavinia will be a guest at Pauw&Witteman (Vara, 23:00u.) where she will perform music by Nino Rota from the Godfather. The focus is on the Evening of Film music, a concert which was given last Thursday at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and will be broadcasted tonight.  

This coming Thursday Lavinia will be the soloist with Holland Symfonia at the festive gala-evening at the Concertgebouw where the theme is film music. She will be performing music from Intouchables. For more information: Concertgebouw.

During the whole month of March Lavinia is touring the Netherlands with her solo theater tour Scenes. She combines film music with other music where she feels a strong imaginative connection. Music by Einaudi, Glass, Hirose, Croft, JacobTV, Arnalds a.o. For the whole list, please visit concerts.

From February 5-8 Lavinia will be a solo performer during the Cross-Linx Festival (De Doelen-Rotterdam, Paradiso-Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw-Eindhoven, Oosterpoort-Groningen) among other famous artists such as Olafur Arnalds and Jose Gonzalez. She will perform music by Philip Glass, JacobTV, Olafur Arnalds and Radiohead.    

On Friday 31 January Lavinia will be a guest performer during the concert of the famous Dutch jazz group Gare du Nord. She will perform a solo, as well as two pieces together with singer Dorona Alberti at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven (main hall).

During the interview on Radio 2, Lavinia was given an early Christmas gift: A Gold Award for her Einaudi album!

On January 3rd Lavinia will come to the city of Arnhem, where she went to high school. Her concert at Luxor in Arnhem, a solo evening with music by Einaudi, Glass and ter Veldhuis, is part of her December-January tour.

This week Lavinia will be touring through the Netherlands with violist Liza Ferschtman and cellist Quirine Viersen. They will perform music by Tedeschi, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Einaudi and Ibert.

Today Het Parool (national Dutch newspaper) posted an interview by Erik Voermans with Lavinia about her background and her new album.

Please follow this link to watch last week’s performance by Lavinia and the interview about the music of Einaudi in the very popular Dutch TV show De Wereld Draait Door.

The new CD Einaudi by Lavinia: Passaggio has reached the 6th position in the Dutch Charts list! This list includes all CD sales in the Netherlands, all genres included.

This week Radio4 will feature Lavinia’s music, at Muziekwijzer, NTR Podium and live broadcast of her performance with the Noord Nederlands Orkest on Thursday with Tailleferre’s Harp Concertino.

Tonight Lavinia will be a guest in the popular TV show De Wereld Draait Door, Ned. 3, 19:25h.

The new album Einaudi by Lavinia: Passaggio is out in the stores and is placed no. 1 in the iTunes Classical charts. Today Lavinia will give a showcase concert at Concerto in Amsterdam.

On November 1st, the new album Einaudi by Lavinia: Passaggio will be released.

Harpist Lavinia Meijer has entered into an exclusive contract with Sony Classical International.

On 5 April 2013 Lavinia received a platinum album on the Dutch TV show Pauw & Witteman for her last CD Metamorphosis/The Hours with music by Philip Glass.

On 28 June 2013 Lavinia will host a solo evening at Carré in Amsterdam.

From the beginning of April the theater tour with Dutch singer/songwriter Theo Nijland will start.

On the 29th of November Lavinia will be performing as a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.