Anna-Lena Elbert, Friederike Heumann, Evangelina Mascardi, Angélique Mauillon
Biography Anna-Lena Elbert, Friederike Heumann, Evangelina Mascardi, Angélique Mauillon
Anna-Lena Elbert
studied at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich. There she appeared as Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Pamina, Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Adele (Die Fledermaus) and Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia). In concerts, she has sung masses and oratorios by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn and Mendelssohn as well as works by Orff, Honegger and Ligeti. She was a scholarship holder of the MozartLabor at the Mozartfest in Würzburg and has performed at the Swiss Baroque Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Rheingau Festival. She is a winner of the Helmut Deutsch Competition and the Richard Strauss Competition. She sings the title role in the children's opera Spring doch at the Bavarian State Opera.
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studied viola da gamba with Jordi Savall and Paolo Pandolfo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, completing her musical education with a solo diploma in Early Music Performance. Thereafter she received a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, where she lived for several years as a freelance musician. She has appeared throughout Europe, Canada, Brazil, Japan, in the US and Israel as a soloist and guest musician of numerous ensembles, including Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), Le Concert d´Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Ensemble Café Zimmermann, Le Poème Harmonique, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Claudio Abbado), Bayerische Staatsoper (Ivor Bolton), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Ton Koopman), Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Kent Nagano), Berliner Barocksolisten and others.
Her own ensemble, Stylus Phantasticus, has made guest appearances at many European festivals performing instrumental music of the 17th century, also in collaboration with such renowned vocal soloists as María Cristina Kiehr, Victor Torres, Damien Guillon, Roberta Invernizzi, Andreas Scholl and Furio Zanasi.
Under the artistic direction of Friederike Heumann, several CD recordings have been released since 2002, which have received enthusiastic reviews and won numerous awards (Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la musique, 10 de Répertorie, Classica, 5 Étoiles de Goldberg, 4 clés de Télérama ffff): Zeichen im Himmel (Signs in the Heavens), the first CD recording of the music of Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, with Stylus Phantasticus and Victor Torres, appeared in 2002 with Alpha (Paris); Ciaccona – il mondo che gira, with chamber music by Dietrich Buxtehude, in 2004 with the same label, as well as L’Harmonie des Nations with Accent in 2007 – music from the time of Elector Max Emanuel -, and Hortus Musicus, with chamber music by Johann Adam Reincken, in 2010.
Solo a viola di gamba col basso, her recording of sonatas for viola da gamba by C.Ph.E. Bach (with Dirk Börner, pianoforte and Gaetano Nasillo, violoncello) has been published by Alpha in 2005, a recording with her duo partner Hille Perl (Why not here, music for two lyra-viols) with Accent. In 2012, her solo recording Il vero Orfeo – Sonatas for viola da gamba by and inspired by Arcangelo Corelli has been released with Accent.
At the international competition Premio Bonporti in Rovereto Friederike Heumann was awarded the first prize with her ensemble Le Nuove Musiche.
