Friederike Heumann
Friederike Heumann studied viola da gamba with Jordi Savall and Paolo Pandolfo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, completing her musical education with a solo diploma in Early Music Performance. Thereafter she received a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, where she lived for several years as a freelance musician. She has appeared throughout Europe, Canada, Brazil, in the US and Israel as a soloist and guest musician of numerous ensembles, including Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Claudio Abbado), Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Kent Nagano), Bayerische Staatsoper (Ivor Bolton), Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble and others.
Her own ensemble, Stylus Phantasticus, has made guest appearances at many European festivals performing instrumental music of the 17th century, also in collaboration with such renowned vocal soloists as Victor Torres, María Cristina Kiehr, Andreas Scholl and Furio Zanasi. Under the artistic direction of Friederike Heumann, Zeichen im Himmel (Signs in the Heavens) with Stylus Phantasticus and Victor Torres was released in 2002, the first CD recording of trio sonatas and arias by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. It was enthusiastically received by international reviewers and won several awards. A further CD of her ensemble with chamber music by Dietrich Buxtehude (Ciaccona: il mondo che gira) has appeared with the same label (Alpha, Paris), as well as a recording with her duo partner Hille Perl (Why not here, music for two lyra-viols) with Carpe diem.
Her recording of sonatas for viola da gamba by C.Ph.E. Bach (with Dirk Börner, pianoforte and Gaetano Nasillo, violoncello) has been published by Alpha in 2005.
At the international competition Premio Bonporti in Rovereto Friederike Heumann was awarded the first prize with her ensemble Le Nuove Musiche.
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