The Embassy of Switzerland in Lebanon has the pleasure to inform you about the Festival Beirut Chants with the internationally acclaimed harpist
Xavier de Maistre performing the “Cantique Suisse”
Variations on the National Swiss Anthem by Simon Peguiron
23 December 2020 @8 PM at Saint Maron Church
Xavier de Maistre was born in Toulon (France) and began studying harp aged nine.
He studied in Paris and in 1998 he was awarded the first prize at the International Harp Competition in Bloomington, Indiana,
immediately becoming the first French musician to join the ranks of the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since 2001 Xavier de Maistre has taught at the Hamburg Academy of Music.
He also gives regular masterclasses at New York’s Juilliard School of Music, Tokyo’s Toho University and London’s Trinity College of Music.