A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, she has performed with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic.

While at Curtis, she participated in master classes with María-Luisa Rayan, Isabelle Perrin, Yolanda Kondonassis, Gretchen van Hoesen, and Lionel Party, and she performed in a concert sponsored by the Philadelphia Harp Society.

She has also studied with Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche;[3] Judith Liber, former principal harp of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Isabelle Moretti from the Paris Conservatoire; Marie-Pierre Langlamet, principal harp of the Berlin Philharmonic; and with Susann McDonald and Elzbieta Szmyt at Indiana University, USA.

In 2006, Ms. Orliac was invited by Claudio Abbado to tour Europe with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

[1] During the festival, she was also part of the Académie Européene de Musique where she performed chamber music with Jeremy Findler and Luiz Filipe Coelho.