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Evelin Degen (* 1966 in Hilden ) is a German flautist.

Life

Degen studied flute at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen with André Sebald and Matthias Rütters . She has been a flute lecturer at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf since 1997 and also taught at the University of Essen from 1999 to 2005 .

As a member of the Türmchen Ensemble (since 1998), she took part several times in the Witten Days for New Chamber Music and other festivals for contemporary music and was involved in radio and CD recordings of works by contemporary composers such as Caspar Johannes Walter , Carola Bauckholt , Annette Schlünz , María Cecilia Villanueva , Karin Haussmann , Manos Tsangaris , Thomas Stiegler and Erik Oña with.

She performed works by Morton Feldman and Salvatore Sciarrino with the Ensemble Tra i Tempi , of which she was a member in 1999 . She also worked here on music theater projects such as Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schönberg (2003), scelsi nacht (2005), the series Erlebnis Neue Musik (2005) and Becket Musik (with world premieres of Vladimir Mendelssohn's Godot Fragments and Michael Veltmans sunev , 2006) With.

Degen has also been working with bassist Peter Böving since 1999 , with whom she has produced a series of musical and literary albums based on texts and the like. a. by Erich Kästner ( Good music makes lonely , 2001) and Ernst Jandl ( Jandls Ernst , 2000 and Funk den Ernst , 2001) published. Since 2002 she has also been a member of the E-MEX ensemble for new music, which specializes in performing and recording works by composers such as Sven-Ingo Koch , Gordon Kampe , Elena Mendoza-López , Valerio Sannicandro , Vassos Nicolaou , Yasuko Yamaguchi , Christoph Maria Wagner and Jörg Birkenkötter .

On May 4, 2011, she was awarded the title of Honorary Professor in recognition of her services to the Robert Schumann University.