About
Britt Arend was born in Belgium, and after successfully completing her undergraduate programmes in harp and musicology, she furthered her academic and musical studies with Susanna Mildonian, obtaining outstanding results in her Masters Degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Music, Brussels.
Britt Arend followed further postgraduate studies abroad, Britt Arendnamely, at the Höchschule Hanns Eisler, Berlin, at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and also at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, from where she obtained full honours in her Diploma di Perfezionamento. Britt has taken part in master classes and has followed summer courses with a few of the most world-renowned harp players. These include Susanna Mildonian at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena, Isabelle Moretti at the Festival di Gargilesse, Marie-Claire Jamet at the Festival des Arcs, Maria Graf at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, and Susann MacDonald and Germaine Lorenzini, amongst others. She has performed with highly professional orchestras such as Opera Royal de Wallonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège (Belgium), RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Ireland), Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Dresdner Sinfoniker, Filharmonisch Orchester Kiel (Germany), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, and Accademia San Giorgio di Venezia (Italy). Britt is also an avid chamber music player. She has been Principal Harpist with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra since 2008.