Duo Enssle-Lamprecht & Susanne Ansorg
Biography Duo Enssle-Lamprecht & Susanne Ansorg
Duo Enssle-Lamprecht
Virtuosic, unconventional, and brimming with the joy of playing – that is how Anne Suse-Enßle (recorder) and Philipp Lamprecht (percussion) present themselves in front of their audience. Always on the lookout for new and offbeat ideas, they take their audiences on journeys into the manifold soundscapes of our present. With a seemingly inexhaustible array of various recorder and percussion instruments, the duo focusses on the most recent contemporary music as well as music from the Middle Ages.
Formed in 2008 in Salzburg, the ensemble specialises in performing contemporary works as and sound installations as well as medieval music (dances, troubadour songs, and religious music of the time). Every once in a while, the musicians commission new compositions. Workshops at music universities in Austria and Germany are also part of both musicians’ activities. Moreover, Anne-Suse Enßle and Philipp Lamprecht also compose their own musical pieces.
Recent projects include a number of children’s concerts in collaboration with the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation and PODIUM Esslingen as well as a complete performance concert series of the 14th-century minstrel “Mönch von Salzburg”’s oeuvre. For this concert series, the ensemble is expanded to include a range of cooperation partners (partners include the International Paul Hofhaymer Society Salzburg and others).
In 2012, the ensemble was awarded a Start Scholarship by the Austrian Ministry of Education.
Susanne Ansorg
born and raised in Arnstadt, started taking violin lessons at the age of four. From the age of 13 she learns the guitar and recorder, and later the piano. From 1989 Susanne Ansorg studied German, musicology and music education at the University of Leipzig and played in various ensembles. From 1994 she studied medieval string instruments and music theory of the Middle Ages at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Randall Cook and Crawford Young.
She has performed throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan and Australia with various medieval music ensembles including Sequentia, Sarband, The Harp Consort, Boston Camerata, Belladonna, La Ziriola, Ars Choralis Coeln and Ala Aurea.
She also researches in the field of medieval instrumentology and performance practice. Susanne Ansorg holds various teaching positions and gives workshops on medieval music. She is the artistic director and coordinator of the music festival "montalbâne".
