Carla Bos - biography

Carla Bos studied harp at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague in The Netherlands. She earned her Bachelors Degree in 1989 and her certificate for chamber music in 1991 while studying with Edward Witsenburg. Carla earned her Masters Degree with Ernestine Stoop in 1999.

Carla has participated in master classes with a.o. Germaine Lorenzini, Cathérine Michel and Tatyana Tauer; for baroque music with Andrew Lawrence-King, Frances Kelly and Mara Galassi; for contemporary music with Brigitte Sylvestre.

Carla serves as harpist in Remix Ensemble of Contemporary Music in Porto since 2001. She is working in The Netherlands as a freelance harpist: as a soloist, with chamber music ensembles and in orchestras like Schönberg Ensemble Amsterdam, Doelen Ensemble Rotterdam, Holland Symfonia Amsterdam, Residence Orchestra The Hague and the Marine Band of the Royal Navy Rotterdam. With these orchestras she made several CD's and went on tours to the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland and Russia. Carla was a member of the Dutch pop band 'Spinvis' for one and a half years.

Carla has four chamber music duos: Panarpa with flutist Désirée Vergers, Licarbe with soprano Lisette Emmink, Ydille with soprano Herma van Piekeren and a duo with organist Ben Kramer. Lisette, Désirée and Carla also perform as trio: Tres Calides. Licarbe has recorded the CD 'Why sit and sigh', Panarpa the CDs 'Naiades' and 'Entr'Acte'.
Carla has made two solo CD's: 'Just Carla' with classical repertoire for the harp and 'Treasury' with lighter repertoire.

Carla has a unique collection of nine harps from different periods: a troubadour harp (Camac), two Celtic blade harps (Salvi and Theobald), a baroque Italian triple harp (Capp), a Latin-American folk harp (Morato), an antique Erard pedal harp built in 1823 and three modern pedal harps (Lyon & Healy - style11, Horngacher - Empire and Aoyama - Orpheus).