Christiane Lorenz

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Christiane Lorenz (born July 13, 1960 in Bielefeld ) is a German flautist and lecturer .

Life

Christiane Lorenz studied from 1979 to 1984 with Hans-Jürgen Möhring at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf , she received further artistic suggestions from Paul Meisen , Andreas Blau and James Galway . In 1983 she won the Kuhlau competition in the city of Uelzen. She gained her first orchestral experience in the Robert Schumann Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Jürgen Kussmaul . As a flautist in the "notabu.ensemble für neue musik düsseldorf" she performed in the ranks of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and at festivals for new music in Germany and abroad from 1988 to 2018 . In 1994 she and the ensemble received the music sponsorship award of the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia.

As part of the Schulhoff year, she took part in a WDR production in 1994. In 2000 her debut CD Incontri (Cybele) was released, on which she and the pianist Thomas Leander recorded contemporary music by composers such as Jürg Baur , Günther Becker and Manfred Trojahn , who also worked as teachers at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. A first recording of Zwei Märchen for solo flute by the Greek composer Dimitri Terzakis was followed in 2007 by a production with Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , Leipzig. Lorenz took part in the recording of Terzakis' Sappho cycle with Brigitte Fassbaender, speaker and Tatjana Masurenko , viola ( Visionen , Wergo ).

In 2001 Lorenz played in a portrait concert in honor of Sofia Gubaidulina in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle, and in 2002 she gave a concert in the series Landscapes read with the writer Sigrid Damm and the actress Ruth Maria Kubitschek . Under the direction of Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen, the flautist took part in the Biennial Ears on Europe , which was performed by Heinz Holliger (2000), Friedrich Cerha (2003), Beat Furrer (2005), Lukas Ligeti (2007), Krzysztof Meyer (2009) , Wolfgang Rihm (2011), Kaija Saariaho (2013).

In 2012 she led a Dutch-German cooperation project with the "Doelen Ensemble" and "Capella Amsterdam" Coro by Luciano Berio on in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. In 2018 a German-French collaboration with the ensemble “Sonopsie” and “Ars Vocalis” followed, with whom she performed the German writer Jürgen Nendza’s cycle of poems, Apfel und Amsel , set to music by the French composer Patrick Otto in Reims and Aachen .

Christiane Lorenz is a member of the "German Flute Society". After teaching at the Bielefeld Music and Art School and teaching transverse flute at the University of Duisburg , she is now a lecturer at the Clara Schumann Music School where she lives in Düsseldorf.

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