Manfredo Zimmermann

Teacher (recorder and baroque traverso) at MHS Köln/Wuppertal
professional player (recorder and baroque traverso)

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where I grew up as well.
Very early I came into contact with music which accompanied me all my life - with one short break (football!) At the beginning it was the recorder, after some time I changed to piano, then to trumpet and finally ended up playing the flutes, for now the flute was added to the recorder.

After some semesters of engeneer studies I definitely changed to music and studied first at the conservatory Graz (Austria) (concert examination "cum laude") and afterwards at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (recorder and baroque traverso).

I taught at the Conservatory in Bern/Switzerland and since 1987 I am teacher at the Musikhochschule Köln/Wuppertal. Besides teaching I feel that concert playing (chamber music & orchestra) with the recorder and the baroque traverso is crucial for my personal development.

As a teacher I feel responsible to give my students:

a solid basic technique, which accords with every single personality,
the capacity to exhaust their own potentials,
support for finding their personal "style",
stylistic sensibility,
responsibility for their professional future

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