Susanne Fröhlich

(b. 1979 in Passau, Germany) studied the recorder with Paul Leenhouts at Amsterdam Conservatory, where she obtained an artistic-pedagogical diploma and, subsequently, a Masters Diploma with distinction in 2004. She went on to study solo recorder with Prof. Gerd Lünenbürger at Berlin University of the Arts, where she obtained her Konzertexamen diploma with distinction in June 2008. Susanne regularly performs recitals and teaches workshops in Europe and overseas. She appears both as soloist and as a member of the recorder quartet QNG and of the trio U3 (featuring recorder, cello and harpsichord). She has participated in a number of world premières at renowned European venues and festivals with the ICTUS Ensemble from Brussels and the Neue Vokalsolisten Berlin (among others).

Susanne has won several scholarships and international competitions in Darmstadt, Rotterdam, Cracow, New York and Berlin. The four Berlin Universities of the Arts granted her a Young Talents‘ Advancement Scholarship in 2006/2007. She lives and teaches in Berlin and won a lectureship at the University of Berlin in April 2010.

 
Marco Magalhães

Marco Paulo Alves Magalhães (*1980) was born in Porto. He holds diplomas from the Conservatório de Música do Porto, the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa and from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In these institutions he has worked with Pedro Sousa Silva, Pedro Couto Soares, Paul Leenhouts, Walter van Hauwe and Jorge Isaac. Marco has collaborated with many ensembles and orchestras including Capela Real de Lisboa, A Imagem de Melancolia, Il Dolcimelo, Concertus Antiquus, Sete Lágrimas, The Garnier Ensemble and Les Cinq Élèments. He has performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, Germany and the USA in major concert halls such as Casa da Música (Porto), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Jordan Hall (Boston) and at the Utrecht Early Music Festival and the Festival de Musica Antigua (Barcelona).

Marco recorded a CD with the ensemble Sete Lágrimas, with the name Lachrimæ #1 under the Murecords label. With A Imagem da Melancolia he recorded two CDs: A Arte da Usurpação for Phonedition and The Bad Tempered Consort, for Challenge Classics.

 
Pamela Thorby

Described recently by BBC Radio 3 as ‘the queen of the recorder’ Pamela Thorby is unique amongst recorder players in the breadth and variety of her work and is widely regarded as the UK’s most stylish and creative recorder virtuoso. She can be heard on numerous recordings of music ranging from the medieval period to the present day and has toured internationally as concerto soloist, chamber musician and orchestral principal. She appears regularly in recital, and as soloist with leading ensembles such as the English Concert, La Serenissima and Concerto Caledonia. Pamela is about to record the Brandenburg Concertos with John Butt’s Dunedin Consort and has recently recorded as a soloist with La Serenissima and virtuoso bassoonist Peter Whelan on a CD of Vivaldi Concertos entitled Gods, Emperors and Angels. Her 4th solo album on LINN is French Baroque works accompanied by lutenist, Elizabeth Kenny entitled The Nightingale and the Butterfly. Pamela has composed an album of her own folk/jazz-inspired compositions entitled Ammonite and is featured on Revenge of the Folksingers album with Concerto Caledonia. Her latest project The Grand Tourists is a genre-hopping group of musicians acclaimed in their respective fields of old and music of all kinds. She began teaching at the Guildhall of Music and Drama within a few years of graduating from there and is now a GSMD Visiting Professor, teaches at York University, Birmingham University and gives masterclasses and workshops in the UK and Europe. Many of her students have gone on to make careers in the music industry as successful players and teachers.