Anneleen Lenaerts

Anneleen Lenaerts is principal harp of the Vienna Philharmonic and one of the leading harpists worldwide. With her flawless technique, subtlety of sound and stylistic range, she impresses equally as an orchestral musician, soloist and chamber musician. She performs at the world’s leading concert halls and is a guest at international festivals in Europe, the USA and Asia.

As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg, Bozar in Brussels, the Salle Gaveau in Paris and at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Moritzburg Festival, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Anneleen Lenaerts is also internationally known as a chamber musician and gives concerts with partners such as Emmanuel Pahud, Avi Avital, Julia Hagen, Christiane Karg and Dionysis Grammenos. Her programmes range from arrangements of classical song literature to original repertory combining harp with clarinet, mandolin or voice.

In the 2024/25 season she appeared at the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, played chamber music in the Brahms Saal of the Vienna Musikverein and performed Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp K. 299 together with Karl-Heinz Schütz and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Future highlights include curating the festival Big Little Music in Ghent in January 2026.

Anneleen Lenaerts‘s discography for Warner Classics has expanded in recent years: in 2021 she released the solo album Vienna Stories, and in 2024 the EP More Stories followed, featuring her own transcriptions of songs and opera arias. In March 2025 she released her arrangement for harp of Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte as a digital single. She was awarded an OPUS Klassik in 2019 for her album Nino Rota: Works for Harp, recorded with Emmanuel Pahud and the Brussels Philharmonic under Adrien Perruchon.