Vita
Antje Hensel has studied the recorder with Robert Ehrlich in Leipzig, with Pamela Thorby in London and with Antonio Politano in Lausanne.
She received a diploma from the Hochchule für Musik und Theater Leipzig and a soloist diploma with distinction from the Conservatoire de Lausanne.
Her repertoire comprises the music from the Renaissance and the Baroque as well as from the 20th and 21st century.
She has given concerts as a soloist, in various chamber groups and with ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Thomaner Choir Leipzig, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Le Concert Lorrain, the Bachakademie Stuttgart, the European Brandenburg Ensemble with Trevor Pinnock, the Ensemble Kaleidoskop, the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin as well as the ensemble Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart in many European countries, Argentina and Namibia.
Antje Hensel won scholarships including a two-year scholarship at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and was a major prizewinner in the International Nicati Interpreters Competition in Biel, Switzerland in 2003.
Since 2006 she teaches recorder at the "College of Music and Drama "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig.
During the summer term 2009 she also taught recorder at the Berlin University of the Arts.