The successful Passaggio: Einaudi by Lavinia album was recorded by this artist from the Far East educated in Holland. Her name is Lavinia Meijer. She was adopted by a Dutch family and she was admitted to the Young Talent Department of the Utrecht Conservatory when she was eleven years old. Lavinia Meijer plays the harp, but her musical horizon is much wider. After she graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam a master degree with Magna Cum Laude, she was trained by the piano player Willem Brons, by the cellist Anner Bylsma, the cellist Theo Olof and by the harpsichord player Ton Koopman. She also collaborated with the harp player Park Stickney, who was connected to the world of jazz.

Her international career is very fertile, for sure. It began at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2007. She has been playing together with great orchestras in the world, she is invited to perform into festivals; there is music especially composed for Lavinia Meijer and she already has a prolific discography. Alongside the traditional harp repertoire the artist also brings unedited titles: Lavinia, on her own, transcribed Phillip Glass' music for harp just before the composer's eyes ; she also transcribed Baroque music and XXth century songs - the Visions album which was released in 2009, Fantasies and Impromptus ; the famous Passaggio transcribed on Ludovico Einaudi's music that was awarded the ^1st prize in classical music classifications; and now this Voyage album, the newest album recorded by Lavinia Meijer. Voyage is her second album released by Sony Label House on 23^rd March, 2015. It contains French music - by Claude Debussy, Eric Satie, Maurice Ravel and Yann Tiersen, the one who wrote the sound track of the film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain.

Environmental music, performed in a proffesional manner that lets no room for doubts. We hold back the whole-heartedness and the touchiness of the message of this great artist from Soth Korea who embraced the European culture and felt interest in the harp's misterious nature and its pure sound. As a matter of fact she stated that she intended to promote this instrument in a soloist sense.

We also hold up the idea of a journey from studying to perfoming a concert. Lavinia Meijer shares on her personal website her own purposes and adventures she has experienced as a musician and which she wanted to include in this album. She discovered new musical pieces, such as, the unforgetable Dances for Harp and Orchestra by Claude Debussy and Introduction and Allegro by Maurice Ravel, that you will have the chance to listen to on 1^st May within the CD Review column . Lavinia Meijer is a member of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta ensemble and she also gives us new solo transcriptions (Gymnopedie Number1 and a few Gnossiennes by Eric Satie) while trying to enlarge the repertoire of this musical instrument which has been ignored for a long time by composers. The album is included in the Vote for the Best Classical Album of 2015 Radio Romania Music campaign.

Arpeggio, 1^st May, 2015, at 11:15