She is a flautist and recorder player who was born to a family where her father was a church musician and singer. As a child she helped her father register the organ during church services and sang in several choirs. She began to learn the recorder when she was 5 years old before adding the flute and transverse flute as she grew older. She studied at the Humboldt High School in Cologne as well as 8 semesters of flute and singing studies with Gunther Holler in Cologne. Later she attended master classes with Wilbert Hazelzet, Barthold Kuijken and Marion Verbruggen.
After venturing out on her professional career as a musician she soon became sought after for playing contemporary music and specialism in historical performance. In 1985 she was a founder member of the baroque ensemble Concerto Koln which she has extensively toured and recorded with.
Other orchestras and ensembles she has worked with include Europa Galante, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre and Musica Antiqua Koln.
The recordings she has performed on include The Goldberg Variations with Uri Caine Ensemble, Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Everisto Felice Dall’Abaco – Concerti, Haendel: Giulio Cesare, Natalie Dessay – Airs D’Operas Italiens and The Mozart Album with Concerto Koln, Virtuosi Saxoniae with Ludwig Guttler, Telemann: Tafelmusik and Johann David Heinichen: Dresden Concerti with Musica Antiqua Koln along with many others.
In the field of musical education she has been an historical flute teacher at the Conservatory of Cologne.
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