Dorothee Oberlinger & Nils Mönkemeyer
Biography Dorothee Oberlinger & Nils Mönkemeyer
Dorothee Oberlinger
is one of the most amazing discoveries of recent years, an expressive virtuoso who has received numerous awards. Today she is seen as one of the best recorder-players in the world. Her concerts have been received with enthusiasm by critics and audiences alike, earning her unanimous acclaim. Her CDs are regularly fêted as the best new issues on the market.
Dorothee Oberlinger has given solo recitals at festivals all over Europe, in America and Japan at some of the most prestigious venues such as the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam, the Settimane Musicale Stresa, the Nederlandse Oude-Musik-Network, the Festival de Musica Antigua Sajazarra, the Warsaw Beethoven Festival, the Europäische Musikfestwoche Passau, the Rheingau-Musikfestival, the Tage der Alten Musik Regensburg and the MDR-Musiksommer. Other venues in which she has played include the Wigmore Hall in London, the National Philharmonie in Warsaw, the Marianischer Saal in Lucerne, the Rosée Theater in Fuji and the Philharmonie in Cologne.
She has been the guest soloist with leading international Baroque ensembles such as London Baroque and Musica Antiqua Köln directed by Reinhard Goebel, and she also plays regularly with modern symphony orchestras such as the WDR-Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and the Detmolder Kammerorchester.
Dorothee Oberlinger collaborates with the top Italian ensemble "Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca", with whom she has given many concerts throughout Europe. Their joint CD of concertos by Antonio Vivaldi has received numerous awards from the international musical press.
She directs her own "Ensemble 1700", which she formed in 2003. Together they have realized a wide variety of projects relating to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2004 Dorothee Oberlinger was appointed professor at the renowned Mozarteum academy in Salzburg.
Nils Mönkemeyer
Time and again, Nils Mönkemeyer demonstrates the wealth of characters and colours that can be conjured by the viola. He has dramatically raised the profile of his instrument, not least by drawing attention to the broad spectrum of the viola repertoire, from the transparent, rhetorical style of the Baroque to the music of the present day. His programmes comprise original literature, rediscovered pearls, his own arrangements, and first performances. As a soloist he performs with the world’s top-class orchestras, such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Mönkemeyer is not only a passionate performer, but also an equally passionate teacher, holding a professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, where he himself studied.
Furthermore, he is fulfilling a heartfelt wish as a musician to build bridges with music and make it accessible to the disadvantaged. To this end, Nils Mönkemeyer founded the chamber music festival «Klassik für Alle» in 2016, in collaboration with the charity Caritas Bonn.
