Honored and insanely grateful to discover that my latest music video is featured on the official pages of the City of Paris! La Ville de Paris vient de partager mon…
Thrilled to be heading to Malaysia next month for the Asian premiere of Carlos Mejia’s Solstice Lunaire Concerto for harp and orchestra! We will be performing at the French Festival…
It's a wrap! After what felt like a million shows for [admittedly very cute] kids in rural schools of France, we performed our last musical tale of the year! To…
Myriam Darme and Maia Darme (Ensemble Traversées) perform a flute and harp duet cover of "It's five o'clock, Paris awakens" (Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille), iconic 1968 French song…
A new chamber ensemble is born! Maia is performing for the first time with an exciting new instrument combination: a harp, flute and clarinet trio. Flutist Valerie Altwegg, clarinetist Caroline…
New music video alert! Maia plays an old Andalusian lullaby titled "Nana". This melody was transcribed and harmonized by Manuel De Falla -- who remembered his mother singing it to…
Maia will soon be joining the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra for a concert dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, featuring all the gorgeous, flowing and virtuosic harp cadenzas from Swan Lake, The…
Maia Darme performs Aquaharp by Animusic, on a real harp!Animusic is an American company specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. They produced three DVDs of computer-generated music videos…
On 15 August 2015, the flute and harp duet Traversées will take Bassin d'Arcachon residents for a sail through centuries of music of various styles.Throughout the evening, Maia and Myriam…
Maia will be guesting at two exciting jazz / world music concerts in Tunisia this weekend, featuring Fadhel Boubakar on the oud, Ahmed Litaiem on the nay and Omar Kasraoui…
Profs Edition published Myriam and Maia Darme's arrangement of Mozart's famous Turkish March for flute and harp duet. Click here to buy the score online. Myriam and Maia Darme perform…
Harp, percussions, and memories of Cuba. Harp by Maia Darme, percussions by Dominique Blanc, video by Aymen Bachrouch. Music from Les Ilets, by Bernard Andrès. Bernard Andrès, born in France…
Maia performing Celtic Tales by Jean-Philippe Vanbesalaere with the Tunisian National Orchestra at the Theatre of Tunis on May 10th, 2015. She performed on an antique Erard harp belonging to…
Maia will be back to France soon for an exciting series of concerts in the Aquitaine region with the ensemble Traversées (flute and harp) as well as Dan Jones on…
In addition to her pedal and lever harps, Maia is now playing a black Camac electric harp. French harp manufacturer Camac built the first solid-body electric harp in the 1980s…
Maia is currently in Tunisia, putting back into shape the antique pedal harp of the National Symphony Orchestra. It was built more than 100 years ago, in 1908, by none other…
Recording electro-pop/hip-hop at Asylum Records studio (producer Dr. Linus, collaboration with Mary Boyoi) and at 360 Media studio (producer Ivan) in Juba, South Sudan.
Back in France for some holidays, Maia dropped by the Studio 504 in Bordeaux, France, to record a few harp & flute duets with Myriam Darmé.
Click HERE to read the new article about Maia published in Dutch magazine Culture for Friends.
Four years ago Maia was living in the Dominican Republic, playing with the national orchestra and advising on the development of a harp curriculum at the national school of music.…
Oryema Okot from the Luo tribe in South Sudan gives Maia's bardic harp a new dimension, playing it like an adungo harp, as seen in the foreground.
Maia recently dived into a new adventure by taking her bardic electro-acoustic harp to South Sudan. Pictured below, hanging out after a presentation at a school in Juba, the capital,…
A year ago, Maia created a channel and started posting harp videos on youtube. They now have more than 30,000 views! A heartfelt thank you to everyone.There will be more…
Maia is proud to be contributing to the rebirth of Tripoli's live music scene. Here is a picture from a concert at the Corinthia hotel hall in Tripoli a few…
Fuad Grittli is a Libyan singer-songwriter, radio host and frequent guest on Libyan television. Maia played with him on a number of occasions. HERE is one of their appearances on…
Jamming, practicing and recording in Libya with the small electro-acoustic 'bardic' harp.
A few months ago, Maia indulged her inner geek and lent a hand to friends at Pixelophonia for two recordings. Videos of the session are now available online. Pixelophonia is…
Maia recently relocated to Libya with a small electro-acoustic bardic harp (pictured here). She will be based in Tripoli for several months to study Arabic and Berber traditional music and…
The Italian Concerto ("Concerto nach Italienischem Gusto": Concerto after the Italian taste, or Concerto in the Italian style) is a three-movement concerto for harpsichord solo composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.…
Maia spent October touring in Morocco with the Orchestre Philarmonique du Maroc before relocating to the "Sans Plomb" (Ivry-sur-Seine, France) for an artistic residency with the wonderful artists of the…
Here's the result of a fun session at Studio 504 : Maia and Myriam Darmé's take on the last James Bond title track, Skyfall. They arranged Adele's song into a…
Solo harp cover of French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman's song Comme toi.
An acoustic harp cover of Lucrezia and Cesare's theme from TV series The Borgias. Original sountrack by Trevor Morris. Arranged and performed by Maia Darme.
Animusic is an American company specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music (www.animusic.com). This is Aquaharp (composed by Wayne Lytle and featured on their first DVD) on a real…
In concert with the Henri IV Orchestra in Paris on June 22, 2013.
Saturday 22 June, 5pm (Chapelle Henri IV, 23, rue Clovis, Paris) : Boieldieu Harp Concerto and Debussy Danses accompanied by the Henri IV Orchestra Thursday 13 June, 6:30pm (Paris 17è) :…
A recording of Maia performing Bernard Andres' song "Duke" (a tribute to Duke Ellington), on solo harp. The percussive sounds are her hitting the soundboard of the harp while playing.
"Summer" from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (a set of four tangos written by Ástor Piazzolla) transcribed for solo harp.
Maia perfoming Toccata, a solo harp piece written by Guillaume Connesson (Paris, April 2013).
Coming up soon... Maia's harp and Catherine Jacquot's incredible visuals join forces to tell the Légende.
The recording of an Impromptu written for Maia by Sarah Wald as part of a series of miniatures for solo harp, and premiered in New York a year ago is…
Maia playing Saint-Saëns' Fantaisie Op.95 for solo harp in a recital last month.
Maia playing a Concert Study written by French composer (and virtuoso harpist) Felix Godefroid in a recital last month.https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuf2gn
Check out how punk sounds on the harp! Will you recognize the riffs and fx sounds created on Maia's instrument despite the added effects that modify the harp's sound?
Maia worked with Gotellfire on the band's upcoming EP. You can listen to a first song online, Aurora !
Arpeggione Sonata D821 by Schubert (extract from the 1st movement, exposition), transcribed for Cello and Harp. With Liam Morrissey on the cello, Paris 2012.
Bernard Andres' harp and flute duet Narthex. An extract of Maia’s Farewell Concert in Canberra, 2009. Recorded by and aired on Artsound fm. Flute: Rachel Howie. The narthex is an…
The Enchanted Dawn, a Ravi Shankar song based on the raga Miyan-ki-Todi, perfomed live on flute and harp. Flute : Floriane Gruson. Recital at the Academie des Jeunes Solistes in…
Carlos Salzedo's Variations on a Theme in Ancient Style for solo harp. An extract of Maia's Farewell Concert in Canberra, 2009. Recorded by and aired on Artsound fm.