Dorothee Oberlinger

Born on September 2, 1969 in Aachen, Germany, Dorothee Oberlinger is a classical recorder player and educator/professor. Raised in Simmern, she originally trained to become a music teacher at the University of Cologne before she began studying the recorder in Cologne, Milan, and Amsterdam. She won the first prize in the Moeck/SRP Solo Recorder Competition in London in 1997 and then made her professional debut soon after at Wigmore Hall in London. She later won other prizes including a Diapasaon d‘Or and several Echo Klassik awards. She’s performed many times as a soloist, performing with many internationally renowned ensembles including Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, Musica Antiqua Köln, the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin, the Academy of Ancient Music, and many others. In 2002, she formed Ensemble 1700, a group that performs chamber music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Dorothee Oberlinger has been a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria since 2004. She has been the director of Arolser Baroque Festival in Germany since 2009. Her recording career began in 2001 and her catalog includes albums such as Peripheries: Contemporary And Medieval Music For Recorder (2003), Italian Sonatas (2007), French Baroque - Versailles 1700-1740 (2011), Night Music (2019), and Discovery of Passion (2020).

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