Coline-Marie Orliac

Coline-Marie Orliac (born 1989) is a French harpist. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, she has performed with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic.

Musical education Orliac studied at the Nice Conservatoire, Ms. Orliac performed frequently with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Opera Theatre orchestra, and on the Curtis Student Recital Series. While at Curtis, she participated in master classes with María-Luisa Rayan, Isabelle Perrin, Yolanda Kondonassis, Gretchen van Hoesen, and Lionel Party, and she performed in a concert sponsored by the Philadelphia Harp Society. She has also studied with Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche; and at the Spivakov Festival in Moscow and the 2015 and 2016 Newport Music Festivals.

In December 2009, she was invited to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi, and in July 2009, she was a harpist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Simon Rattle at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. and was twice awarded the Mario Falcao Prize for best performance of the piece written for the competition. She also won first prize in the 2005 UFAM International Harp Competitio n and second prize in the Vera Dulova Harp Competition in Moscow — the first French harpist ever to receive this award.

In 2008, Orliac was a prize winner of the Concours International de Harpe de la Cité des Arts de Paris and was the only candidate to be awarded a special prize for the best performance of Damase’s “Thème and Variations”. Additionally, she was named a finalist in the Philadelphia Orchestra Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition and won second prize in the Riverside Symphonia Caprio Young Artists Competition in Lambertville, New Jersey. The same year, she was invited to perform harp-trombone duets at the Tenth World Harp Congress in Amsterdam.