Appointed principal of the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015, French harpist Amandine Carbuccia is enjoying a thrilling career as a soloist and a chamber musician.

As an orchestral harpist she is regularly invited to perform with prestigious orchestras including the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig or the Staatsopern Hamburg and Hannover under the baton of such conductors as Zubin Metha, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, François-Xavier Roth. This collaborations gave her the opportunity to play in the famous Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonie and the Musikverein Wien.

She pursues her career as soloist and chamber musician with recitals through Europe, and performed in prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Künstlerhaus München or the Barcelona Auditori.
She has been invited to appear as a soloist with the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra , the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Kammerphilharmonie Dacapo München, the Gießen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Lamoureux or the Bremen Philharmonic.
Amandine Carbuccia can also be heard on France Musique, Radio Bremen and on Dutch Radio NPO 4.

Amandine Carbuccia has won numerous international competitions including a First Prize at the 3e Concours International de Nice (as well as the Prize for the contemporary piece) in 2009, a First Prize at the International Dutch Harp Competition in Utrecht (as well as the audience Award) in 2012 and recently the Third Prize at the presitigious International Lily Laskine Competition in Paris in 2014.

Born in Nice in 1990, Amandine Carbuccia started learning harp at age seven with Michelle Vuillaume. She holded in 2013 a Master of Music degree from the CNSDM Lyon where she studied with Fabrice Pierre and finished her studies with a Soloist Diplom (Konzertexamen) with Professor Françoise Friedrich in Frankfurt am Main.

She was scolarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, ADAMI and Académie musicale de Villecroze.