Mary Lattimore

The harp has long been considered an instrument capable of appeasing the gods of the underworld and reaching all the way up to heaven – and American harpist Mary Lattimore proves the point. Together with a new generation of players like Joanna Newsom and Sophye Soliveau, she has taken the instrument into genres like pop, ambient and R&B, lifting them to new heights. Across five studio albums, Lattimore has written songs about mermaids, ghost forests and hotels in Croatia, capturing moments and memories with such intensity that Pitchfork credited her with "uncanny ability to pluck a string in a way that will instantly make someone remember the taste of their fifth birthday cake." Her latest album “Tragic Magic”, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris with musician Julianna Barwick, was released in January. "Experiments in this direction existed in the early crossings of ambient and folk, but no album has achieved this beauty before … a heavenly experience. A delicate, refined, sublime masterpiece," wrote HHV Mag. Now, in a solo concert at St. Gertrud Kirche, Mary Lattimore opens transcendent doors in Hamburg too.