Anne Freitag, born in Leipzig in 1984, is praised by the international press for her distinctive sound, highest musical sensitivity, and outstanding virtuosity. As a solo flutist, she performs with ensembles such as Hathor Consort, Chamber Orchestra Basel, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, among others, and has appeared as a soloist and chamber music partner throughout Europe, China, Hong Kong, Japan, North Africa, and Latin America, with ensembles like the European Union Baroque Orchestra, Les Agrémens, Arte dei Suonatori, musica cubicularis, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, and others. She has a long-standing collaboration with harpsichordist Jean-Christophe Dijoux as well as with the pianists Mikayel Balyan and Gilad Katznelson.

She studied traverso and improvisation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and, during her studies, was a trainee with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as well as principal flutist and recorder player with the European Union Baroque Orchestra (Lars Ulrik Mortensen). Anne Freitag won several prestigious competitions, including the 2011 Musica Antiqua Bruges for solo instruments and the International Schmelzer Competition Melk, among others.

With her group Thrésor musical, she dedicates herself to music at special intersections with philosophy and literature, and the importance she places on improvisation as a practice inherent to music can be experienced in concerts and masterclasses.

 

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