Maximilian Mangold - Guitar • Lute • Historical Guitar

Ensembles with:

Trio Traversflute, Barockviola, 19th century guitar

HEIKE NICODEMUS, transverse flute (August Grenser Dresden 1789) is a sought-after specialist on her instrument and gives numerous concerts as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician. After successfully completing recorder studies with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Thieme at the Hanover University of Music and Theater, she initially studied the transverse flute with Prof. Dr. Linde Brunmayr at the Trossingen University of Music. The ongoing, intensive engagement with historical performance practice began while she was studying the recorder. She later studied with the outstanding traverso flautist Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and was admitted to the concert exam after just two years. In the course of the studies, contact was made with various leading baroque orchestras. She has performed with Concerto Köln, Das kleine Konzert, the Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra, l’Arpa Festante Munich, Chursächsische Capelle Leipzig, Sol Sol La Sol Salzburg, among others. In 1995 she took part in the opening of the Salzburg Festival and in 2000 at the Göttingen Handel Festival. Numerous radio, television and CD recordings (including Teldec and Capriccio) followed. She worked as a lecturer at various music festivals, including the Innsbruck International Music Festival. Since 2002 she has been teaching transverse flute and historical performance practice at the State University of Music in Karlsruhe.

Ursula Plagge-Zimmermann, viola (baroque viola by Gabriel David Buchstetter (Regensburg-1762)) studied after graduating from high school at the Karlsruhe and Freiburg conservatories with Madeleine Prager, Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn (chamber music) and Kim Kashkashian (concert exam). During her studies, she was an intern and temporary assistant in the SWR symphony orchestras in Baden-Baden/Freiburg and Stuttgart, as well as in the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe. Inspired by members of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, she increasingly turned to historical performance practice after completing her studies. As a member of the Tomasini Quartet, she was involved in the founding of the Karlsruhe Baroque Orchestra. Since then she has performed with many different early music ensembles such as l’arpa festante Munich, the Main Baroque Orchestra Frankfurt and the Neumeyer Consort. In recent years, chamber music in its original form has become an increasingly important concern. Through various cultural grants, several CDs were created that are dedicated to the rediscovery of rarely played or forgotten works. With a viola by Gabriel David Buchstetter (Regensburg-1762), the musician has wonderfully rich tonal support. In addition to concerts, her music education work has been very important for many years. She is also very committed to the area of ​​“inclusive music schools”. She is a regular juror at the Jugend Musiziert competition, has instilled a love of music in many students and her four children, and lives with her husband in Karlsruhe.