Marie-Claire Jamet

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Marie-Claire Jamet (born 27 November 1933 in Reims) is a French classical harpist. She is the daughter of harpist Pierre Jamet. After winning the Conservatoire de Paris’ first prize in harp and in chamber music, she became harp soloist with the National Orchestra of Radio France, and later a soloist with the Ensemble Inter-Contemporain directed by Pierre Boulez. She now focuses on her solo career.

Jamet has played more than 2,000 concerts around the world, including in the United States, Europe, Japan, India, Russia, Canada and Australia. She has premiered many works for harp with orchestra, for flute and harp, and for harp solo. From 1959 to 1978 she led the Marie-Claire Jamet Quintet, which included a flute, a string trio and a harp. Members included Christian Lardé, José Sanchez, Jacques Dejean, Colette Lequien and Pierre Degenne, and the group left many recordings.

She was made chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 16 March 1995 and promoted to officer on 13 July 2012.