Soloists' Biographies

Norbert Rodenkirchen

Norbert Rodenkirchen, who studied flute with Hans Martin Mueller and Günther Hoeller at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Köln has been the flute player of Sequentia since 1996 and also works regularly with the French ensemble Dialogos directed by Katarina Livljanic. Together with Sabine Lutzenberger he founded the ensemble per – sonat. With all three ensembles he has been invited to numerous international festivals. He is also much in demand as a composer of music for theater and film as well as a producer for CD projects, most of them in coproduction with the WDR/ West German Radio. Since 2003 Norbert Rodenkirchen is the artistic director of the concert series „Schnuetgen Konzerte – Musik des Mittelalters“ in the medieval museum of Cologne. Additionally he has given workshops on medieval instrumental improvisation at the Mozarteum Salzburg, at the festivals of Vancouver and Ambronay as well as at the conservatories of Lyon and Liege. In 2009 he released his second solo CD „Flour de Flours / Guillaume de Machaut / Lais & Virelais“ on the marc aurel edition label.

www.norbertrodenkirchen.de

Upcoming Concerts

13 April 2010
Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany
The Rheingold Curse

19 June 2010
Montalbâne Festival, Germany
Fragments for the End of Time

24 September 2010
Cité de la Musique, Paris
The Rheingold Curse

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