Inge Frimout-Hei studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Edward Witsenburg. She gives concerts with harp and voice and is a regular guest at festivals. She leads the Blue Planet Harp Ensemble, a harp orchestra for children and young people up to the age of 21. On several occasions, Inge has performed for the Royal Families of the Netherlands and Belgium.
Together with Mariël van den Bos, principal flutist of the Metropole Orchestra, she forms the Duo SPHINX. They perform works by composers such as Debussy, Fauré, Grieg, and Gershwin. With vibraphonist Ralph Adriaansen, Inge forms the duo Drya Ingra. They perform a wide-ranging repertoire from Romantic to contemporary works, from Chopin to Jobim. They also perform their own compositions and improvisations.
In 2022, Inge was appointed harpist of the Clan Hay in Scotland. She has given several concerts in Scotland together with world champion bagpiper Stuart Liddell. The Clan Hay Pipe Band has also traveled to the Netherlands to give a concert together with her Blue Planet Harp Ensemble.
Inge is a composer and publisher of harp music. Her ensemble works ‘Flidias and the Magic Harp‘ and ‘Blue Planet‘ are performed by harpists from Canada to Indonesia. The premiere of her work ‘Whispering Caves‘ was performed in the Valkenburg Caves by the Blue Planet Harp Ensemble and raised a substantial amount for End Polio Now.
She composed the required piece ‘Melrose Suite for Harp‘ for the national Rosa Spier Harp Competition in 2018. She also wrote the musicals ‘De Poppenmaker‘ (2022), ‘Valgaudemar, the Mountain Valley‘ (2024), and ‘The White Town of Thorn‘ (2025).
Harpist and singer Jopie Jonkers and Inge collaborated to develop the harp method ‘Arpa Latina‘. Together they perform in the Duo Harp & Voice with Spanish and Latin-American repertoire.
The fascinating space of electronic music in combination with harp is being explored with Max Frimout. Their first album, ‘Pool Night on the Moon’ was recently released. Also Kyra Frimout contributed to this album with pedal harps, voice and analog synthesizers. (Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud)
From 2017 till 2025 Inge was the first chairwoman of the ‘Harp Vereniging Nederland‘, the harp association of the Netherlands.