Ulrike Volkhardt

Recorder player (professional)/recorder teacher (professor at Folkwang Hochschule)

As a player my main interest is to find artistic forms of expressing quasi-archaic and perpetuos ideas and needs of musician and listener. Based on studies (besides playing the recorder...) in ethnomusicology, philosophy, psychology, literature a.o. I work together with collegues from all arts and sciences. We develop performances, lectures e.a. with electronic music, dance, drama etc. but of course also nice programs with baroque music with my ensemble "camerata moderna".
As a teacher I try to first give my students basic skills in recorder technique, information about the different stiles of our repertoire, experience in consort playing of very early music, know-how about the function of the body etc. Besides this I try to encourage every single student to find his own possibiblities of expression and function of the instrument and its repertoire by me working on the same subject as every student: Lifelong learning. Together with the teachers students I try to develop new curricula. Students of all subjects are working together in our class as I myself also found the different studies I did (school music, instrumental teacher, soloist, sciences etc.) important.

Information on CD’s, programs etc.: www.ulrikevolkhardt.de

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