EUBO winds

Iris Desiree Balzereit, Germany

Oboe

Iris Désirée studied modern oboe with Jochen Müller-Brinken in Würzburg and Christian Hommel in Bremen. During her studies she started playing the baroque oboe and had lessons with Michael Niesemann and Xenia Löffler. After her modern oboe graduation in 2006 she spent six months at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague studying baroque oboe with Frank de Bruine. Back in Germany, she became a student of Michael Niesemann in Würzburg, also taking recorder lessons with Bernhard Böhm. She graduated in 2009 and is currently continuing her studies in the Fortbildungsklasse. Iris Désirée has been a member of various youth orchestras and academy orchestras including the Nationaal Jeugt Orkest in The Netherlands, the academy orchestras of the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and the International Handel Academy Karlsruhe. Her musical activities are diverse: Iris Désirée teaches adults and children on oboe and recorder, gives concerts on modern and historic oboes and plays various renaissance wind instruments, such as recorders, crumhorns and shawms, as a member of Ensemble Resonanzen.

Robert De Bree, The Netherlands

Oboe

Robert studies baroque oboe with Frank de Bruine and recorder with Dorothea Winter and Daniel Bruggen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He was successful at the international recorder competition in Utrecht in 2004, at the Prinses Christina Concours in 2005, at the International Musica Antiqua Concours in Brugge in 2008 and at the International Telemann Wettbewerb in 2009. He plays with Nico van der Meel, Ensemble L’Arpeggiata, the Apollo-ensemble and Ryo Terakado amongst others. Robert regularly premieres new works for his instruments and explores new ways of playing them. Improvisation is one of his big loves. As a founder of the Scroll Ensemble he researches ensemble improvisation from the 15th to 18th century and beyond, including collaboration with a jazz singer and contemporary improvisers. He is often asked to improvise and play in the theatre, for instance at the Nederlands Historisch Dans Theater with Mijnheer De Liz, De Utrechtse Spelen with Le Malade Imaginaire, Alba Theaterhuis with music theatre performance Backspace.

Philipp Wagner, Austria

Recorder

Philipp was born in 1985 in Hallein, Austria, and started his musical education on the recorder at the age of five. Between 1994 and 2001 he attended the Junior department of the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, studying with Felicitas Speer Keldorfer, he then went on to study with Carin van Heerden and Dorothee Oberlinger. In 2007 he received his bachelor’s degree in recorder, graduating with distinction. While studying recorder, he also began to play the modern oboe and in 2005 began studying the Baroque oboe with Carin van Heerden at the Bruckner-University of Linz. Currently he is studying Baroque oboe at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Alfredo Bernardini.

He plays regularly with many orchestras including L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Salzburger Hofmusik and was member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra 2009. Philipp has participated in various masterclasses with Matthias Weilenmann, Ryohei Hirose, Paul Dombrecht and Antoine Torunczyk.

Michele Fattori, Italy

Bassoon

Michele was born in Trento in 1982, and began studying the bassoon at the age of ten under the guidance of Steno Boesso. He continued his studies in Salzburg, Vienna, Freiburg and Berlin where he was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. During this time he had the chance to play in numerous orchestras, such as the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchener Kammerorchester, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Pierre Boulez and many others. In 2009 he started to study the baroque bassoon with Alberto Grazzi, also taking part in various masterclasses with Lorenzo Coppola and Alfredo Bernardini. On period instruments he played with Orchestra barocca Zefiro under Alfredo Bernardini and with Orchestra Mozart under Claudio Abbado. Since its foundation Michele is a member of Spira mirabilis, an ensemble created to study and perform symphonic and chamber repertoire from the 18th to the 20th centuries without conductor.

Anna Flumiani, Italy

Bassoon

Anna Flumiani began her musical studies with the modern bassoon at the Conservatorio di Musica Jacopo Tomadini in Udine, Italy. In 2001 she graduated in modern bassoon with distinction under the guidance of professor Gilberto Grassi. For several years she centered her musical activity on chamber music with various ensembles and in particular with the Kalamos woodwind quintet with which she won the first prize at the Città di Grosseto National Award and toured Italy and Europe. She has been playing the modern bassoon in the Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia Giulia since 2004. After having met the bassoonist Claudio Verh, she decided to start studying early bassoon with him. She obtained the highest level degree in early bassoon in October 2007 and after that she participated in a number of concerts and early music masterclasses. Anna is currently studying in Basel with Donna Agrell.