Education
Orliac recently graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Judy Loman, former principal of the Toronto Symphony, and Elizabeth Hainen, principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She received a Bachelor of Music degree and was awarded the Joan Hutton Landis Award for Excellence in Academics.
Career
In December 2009, she was invited to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi, 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. During the festival, she was also part of the Académie Européene de Musique where she performed chamber music with Jeremy Findler and Luiz Filipe Coelho. The same year, she was invited to perform harp-trombone duets at the Tenth World Harp Congress in Amsterdam.
Mississippi
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. In 2006, Mississippi Orliac was invited by Claudio Abbado to tour Europe with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
She has also performed with the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Nice, and for the Spivakov Festival in Moscow.
She has also studied with Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche. Judith Liber, former principal harp of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Isabelle Moretti from the Paris Conservatoire. Marie-Pierre Langlamet, principal harp of the Berlin Philharmonic.
And with Susann McDonald and Elzbieta Szmyt at Indiana University, United States of America.
Membership
Two months prior to this, Mississippi Orliac was invited to become a member of the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series, where she regularly performs with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.