Charlotte Berger

Elisabeth Charlotte Berger (born February 23, 1985 in Viersen , née Elisabeth Charlotte Barden ) is a German block and traverso flutist and oboist .

Life

education

At the age of 15, Berger was accepted as a young student at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . From 2002 to 2008 she studied recorder and baroque flute at Günther Höller , Dorothee Oberlinger , Manfredo Zimmermann , Oboe at Michael Niesemann and basso continuo at Gerald Hambitzer . In the winter semester 2006/7 she also took recorder and historical oboes with Carin van Heerden and historical performance practice with Michi Gaigg at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz .

Teaching

Berger had a teaching position for recorder and oboe at the municipal music school Wertheim from 2009 to 2013 and at the music school Steigerwald, Wiesentheid , from 2011 to 2013. From 2010 to 2011 she was at the singing and music school Würzburg, Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium, Würzburg, oboe and orchestral studies employed. Since September 2013 she has been setting up a class of private students in Stellenbosch and Somerset West . She also works regularly with the Unit for Early Music at the Music Department of Stellenbosch University . Berger has been working at the Recorder Symposium Cape Town since March 2014 . There she gives regular lectures and conducts master classes and workshops. From July 2015 to August 2016 she taught at the Music Department of Somerset College , Somerset West (South Africa), with one-to-one tuition and competition supervision (Eisteddfod).

Ensembles

From 2003 to 2006 Charlotte Berger was a member of the baroque ensemble "Les Follies". Since 2004 she has been working with various ensembles. She is a regular member of baroque orchestras such as the Neue Nürnberger Ratsmusik , the Main Barockorchester Frankfurt , the Camerata Tinta Barocca , the Cologne Academy , the Lautten Compagney Berlin and the Hofkapelle Munich . In 2005 she founded the ensemble “La Primavera”, which focuses on literature from the Renaissance to the Baroque. In the same year she was a founding member of the “Cölner Barockorchester”, which focused on research and musical work on the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Their participation ended in 2008. In that year Berger co-founded the ensemble “Resonanzen”, which focuses on music for woodwinds from the Middle Ages to the early Baroque. In the same year she was involved in the founding of the first Würzburg baroque orchestra, Tiepolo Ensemble Würzburg . This orchestra has regular national and international concert activities and, in addition to large oratorios, passions and baroque masses, focuses on archive work and intercultural dialogue.

Prizes and awards

• Prize winner of the national competition “ Jugend musiziert ” both as a soloist and as a member of the ensemble.
• First prizes at international recorder days in Engelskirchen .
• Special prize from the Walter Kaminski Foundation
• Scholarship from the Dieter and Elisabeth Boeck Foundation for the promotion of historical performance practice for the ensembles "La Primavera" and the Cölner Barockorchester, which she co-founded .
• 2004 to 2010 scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• Scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Private

Charlotte Berger is married to the former Würzburg cathedral music director Martin Berger .

Discography

• Charlotte Berger & Tiepolo Ensemble Würzburg - Seven Hundred Years of Music for Recorder , CD, 2012.

Web links

• Homepage of Charlotte Berger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.musikschule-wertheim.de/fachbereich/fb-5-blasinstrument/charlotte-barden/index.html
2. ↑ Charlotte Berger & Tiepolo Ensemble Würzburg - Seven Hundred Years of Music for the Recorder