When Remy van Kesteren was five years old, he heard the sound of a strange, enchanting instrument played in a garden. Lured in by the pull of a harp, his life changed forever. 20 years later, Remy went on to be called a “brilliant harpist” by The New York Times and built an international, award-winning career. He’s played across concert halls around the world, even winning in 2013 the largest international harp competition in the world.
Since then, Remy has collaborated with compositions in dance (Het Nationale Ballet in 2014 & 2017), film (Oscar-winning director Michael Dudok De Wit), or across a blend of genres with singer-songwriters, producers, and DJ’s, finding fresh and creative ways of pushing the boundaries of his harp-playing skills. His own music has garnered more than 12 million streams on Spotify alone across 182 different countries. Meanwhile, Remy continues to navigate new means of expanding interest in the harp across the wider population. Whether co-creating a DIY “IKEA” harp that allows for easy assembly or sitting as artistic director of the Dutch Harp Festival, he is constantly finding unique ways to bring the harp to new audiences, and new audiences to the harp.
