| Description | Price |
| Private event 2x45 minute sets (porterage included in the miles limit) | £350 (GBP) |
| Private event 1 hour set (porterage included in the miles limit) | £250 (GBP) |
| Wedding background music for drinks 2x45 minute sets (porterage included in the miles limit) | £350 (GBP) |
| Wedding ceremony (porterage included in the miles limit) | £250 (GBP) |
After her Bachelor and Master studies at the CNSMD in Lyon, Anna Astesano joined the harp class at Trinity and Laban Conservatoire of Music and Danse in the Postgraduate Advanced Diploma course in London. She has won several national and international competitions. Between 2014 and 2015 she has been harpist at “Teatro alla Scala” Academy in Milan.In the summer 2015 she attended the NJO (Netherlands Jugend Orchestra) and the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra followed by coaches from the London Symphony Orchestra.
In June 2015 she won the audition as first harp at “Luigi Cherubini” Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti. Since 2017 she has been awarded scholarships offered by the Turin CRT Foundation, “De Sono” Association and Turin "Lions Club".
In 2018 she was awarded the “Featured Young Performer” Award by the London Ear Festival, having soloist and chamber music concerts with the Uroboros Ensemble. She has collaborated with: the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale (RAI) in Turin, the Kobolov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, the London Southbank Sinfonia. She is working with many other recognised London institutions, the Abbey Road Studios, the British Museum and Wigmore Hall between the others.
She is actually the Future Foyle First harpist in the programme promoted by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been awarded the "John Marson Prize for best performer" and had her debut in St-Martin-in-the-Fields in May 2019. Since November 2018 she is a Concordia Foundation Artist.
= areas covered (up to 300 miles)
= free travel (up to 4 miles)
Solo harp "masterpieces":
-Bach Carl Philipp Emmanuel, Sonata in G Major (1730)
-Berio Luciano, Sequenza n°2 per arpa (1963)
-Britten Benjamin, Suite for Harp (1969)
-Caplet André, Divertissements à la française et à l'éspagnole (1924)
-Chertok Pearl, Around the clock suite (1948)
-Debussy Claude, Deux Arabesques (1888)
-Fauré Gabriel, Impromptu op. 86 (1904)
-Fauré Gabriel, Une chatelaine en sa tour op.110 (1918)
-Haydn Joseph, Sonata in g-minor Hob XVI-44 (1771)
-Hasselmans Adolphe, La Source Op. 44 (1898)
-Hindemith Paul, Harp sonata (1939)
-Pierné Gabriel, Impromptu Caprice op. 9 (1885)
-Pigovat Boris, The wandering stars (2001)
-Prokofiev Sergei, The Montagues and the Capulets (1946)
-Renié Henriette, Legende (1903)
-Renié Henriette, Ballade Fantastique (1912)
-Salzedo Carlos, Fantasy on Lara's Granada (1932)
-Smetana Bedrich, Die Moldau (1879)
-Spohr Louis, Fantaisie un c minor (1807)
Other repertoire
-any kind of Christmas songs, background and recital music
-background music for any occasion (afternoon tea, birthday parties, weddings, private events)
-Disney and film music medleys
-Songs or required repertoire can be learnt if requested
No need of special technical equipment. Chair and stool are always welcome, but I can bring mine as well.
How long before your performance do you need to arrive?
45 minutes/one hour before the performance, time needed to set up the instrument and tune it.
Melanie (top rating) As a full time professional musician and harpist myself, I have high standards on performer’s abilities and behavior. Anna was perfectly on time, very responsive and displayed easy and timely communication. She was flexible and well prepared. She sounded beautiful for my engagement ceremony and was very gracious and appropriate for this religious event. Her playing truly made it special. She played solo prelude music, hymns solo and with trumpet. Guests were very impressed by her playing and by the choice of a harp over organ, as it is most common in church. We received many compliments about her performance and the harp.
Rachel (top rating) Our Britten's Cerimony of Carols was a great success!
Thank you for the great music made together with the choir and your positive attitude!
Natasha (top rating) A massive bravo you again for your beautiful performance at the UCLH Christmas Concert!
Thank you so much again for sharing your lovely music.
Emily (top rating) Thank you for providing such great background music at our donors event, atmosphere and choice of repertoire were exactly what we needed.
Louise (top rating) Great music and presence surrounding our guests while having dinner, easy and professional communications
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