Marisa Robles

Marisa Robles studied harp while a kid with Luisa Menarguez, made her debut in age 9, and continued to graduate from the Madrid Conservatory in 1953 in age 16. Another year, she produced her concert debut in Madrid, carrying out with Jean-Pierre Rampal in Mozart’s Concerto for flute and harp, K. 299. The task would become her personal piece; she documented it four instances with Wayne Galway and it has performed it in concert a lot more than 1,000 instances during the period of her profession. Her period teaching in the Madrid Conservatory was short: after becoming a member of the personnel in 1958, she wedded and shifted to Britain in 1959, ultimately taking United kingdom citizenship. In Britain, Robles became known for tv looks, whereby she released harp music to fresh viewers. Between 1971 and 1993 she trained in the Royal University of Music, but additionally spent enough time touring and carrying out all over the world, including a 1988 visit to China. She’s caused such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Yehudi Menuhin. She also regularly performed chamber music, specifically with her second spouse, flutist Christopher Hyde-Smith. Her amiable stage character and her warm, very clear playing endeared her not merely to viewers, both live and tv, but additionally to composers. Among those that devoted harp concertos to her had been Manuel Moreno-Buendia, who had written a concerto on her behalf in 1958 another one for harp, marimba, and strings on her behalf in 1994; Joaquín Rodrigo (Sones en la Giralda, 1963); Malcolm Williamson; Jesús Guridi; and John Metcalf. She’s been the dedicatee of chamber functions by William Mathias, Stephen Dodgson, Alun Hoddinott, and William Alwyn. Robles was creative director for the very first two Cardiff Globe Harp Celebrations in 1991 and 1994. Around once, she appeared within the Emmy-winning tv series Concerto! with Galway and Michael Tilson Thomas, once again executing the Mozart. Furthermore to her recordings of Mozart, she’s documented the music of Debussy and Rodrigo, an record of well-known harp solos, and music by Edwin Robertson predicated on C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia with both Hyde-Smith and her very own harp ensemble.