Xenia Löffler - Baroque oboe
Xenia Löffler has gained an outstanding international reputation as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in recent years. Since 2001 she has been a member and solo oboist of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and performs as a soloist and chamber musician with other ensembles and orchestras under renowned conductors all over the world.
Trained at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, she is particularly interested in researching and publishing unknown oboe repertoire. In the meantime numerous solo CDs are available on labels such as Harmonia Mundi France, Accent and Supraphon. Some of these recordings have received major awards (Diapason d’or) or nominations, including the BBC Music Awards and the Gramophone Award.
She pursues her passion for chamber music in concerts and CD recordings with exceptional musicians such as Isabelle Faust, Maurice Steger, Vittorio Ghielmi and Václav Luks.
Xenia Löffler gives master classes in Germany and abroad and has supervised the major classes for historical oboe at the universities of Bremen (2004-2016) and Berlin since 2014. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Historical Oboe at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She became Artistic Director of Early Music at the Sommerakademie Neuburg an der Donau in 2018.
Course description
The course is aimed at students, professional musicians and advanced laymen. The choice of the course repertoire is free, solo sonatas, arias, chamber music as well as concerti in different instrumentations are welcome. A focus this year will be on the instrumental and vocal works of the Bach family (also arias with obligatory instruments), as well as the rich repertoire for oboe with the participants of the bassoon class.
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