Camilla Hoitenga
Cologne
Flutist Camilla Hoitenga travels extensively, bringing her eclectic repertoire and charismatic performances with her wherever she goes, whether Berlin or New York, the Kremlin in Moscow or the Forbidden City in Beijing. Whether accompanied by orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony or the London Philharmonic, or playing alone on stage, Camilla’s concerts have been acclaimed by the press as „brilliant “ and „ideally transparent and precise.“ Her recordings, in particular those with Kaija Saariaho, have won awards in France, Great Britain and in North America. Inspired by traditional Japanese music, she has been a frequent guest in Japan and has premiered dozens of pieces written for her by Miyuki Ito, Mio Minamikawa, Shoko Shida, Takehito Shimazu, Yoshiro Kanno, Harue Kondoh, Yu Kuwabara and many others.
Her repertoire ranges from music of Bach, Mozart and Schubert to concertos written for her by Kaija Saariaho, Pèter Koeszeghy or KenIchiro Kobayashi; from Stockhausen's theatrical Zungenspitzentanz for piccolo to Jean-Baptiste Barriere's state-of-the art pieces for live video and electronics to improvisations with Jean-Marc Montera. In addition to her intensive collaborations with Saariaho, Stockhausen, Köszeghy, and Barrière, with a wide range of composers, including Anne LeBaron, Oliver Schneller, Jovanka Trbojevic, Yasutaki Inamori, Christopher Fox, Donnacha Dennehy and Bryan Wolf have dedicated pieces to her. Furthermore, the sculptor Ansgar Nierhoff (1941-2010) created a three-dimensional "score" out of iron for Camilla, a piece called Anlehnen ("to lean on"), which she has interpreted in various environments. Additional commissions for her own music and improvisation have come from painters and sculptors (e.g. Jörg Immendorff, Raija Malka, Mutsumi Okada, Peter Drake) as well as from galleries and museums (e.g. „for Yves Klein“ in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne).
Camilla Hoitenga has taught at the State University of New York and at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen/Duisburg and continues to give masterclasses and workshops on various subjects for musicians of all ages. Her own flute teachers were Darlene Dugan, Alexander Murray, Peter Lloyd and Marcel Moyse. Further inspiration came in the course of studies with philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorf at Calvin College (B.A), and with early-music expert George Hunter, composers Ben Johnston and Sal Martirano and ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl at the University of Illinois (M.Mus., D.M.A.), with Maurico Kagel and, especially, with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne.
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA), Camilla Hoitenga now lives in Cologne, Germany and Sylva, North Carolina.
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