"I have never seen or heard anything so powerful, yet created with so few elements. Excellent musicians Albrecht Maurer and Norbert Rodenkirchen were worth a whole orchestra. (...) Everything seemed like a perfect improvisation, created at the very moment of the performance."
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Norbert Rodenkirchen was born in Köln, where he studied flute at the Hochschule für Musik with Hans Martin Müller and later Baroque flute with Guenther Höller. In addition to extensive commissions as a composer of works for the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the Theater Bremen, the Schauspiel Wuppertal as well as the West German Radio, his primary interest has been the theory and practice of medieval music. Today, Norbert Rodenkirchen is an internationally recognized performer on medieval flutes. Performances with the ensemble Sequentia (dir. Benjamin Bagby) have taken him to Japan, Australia, Canada, the USA and many European countries.
Together with Sabine Lutzenberger he founded the ensemble Per – Sonat. With all ensembles he has been invited to numerous international festivals. He is also much in demand as a composer of music for theater and film as well as a producer for CD projects, most of them in coproduction with the WDR/ West German Radio. Since 2003 Norbert Rodenkirchen is the artistic director of the concert series "Schnuetgen Konzerte – Musik des Mittelalters" in the medieval museum of Cologne. Additionally he has given workshops on medieval instrumental improvisation at the Mozarteum Salzburg, at the festivals of Vancouver and Ambronay as well as at the conservatories of Lyon and Liege. In 2009 he released his second solo CD "Flour de Flours / Guillaume de Machaut / Lais & Virelais" on the Marc Aurel Edition label.
Excerpt from a concert at the Zadar Festival (Croatia), in July 2007
Excellent musicians Albrecht Maurer and Norbert Rodenkirchen were worth a whole orchestra. In their interaction with Katarina Livljanic’s marvellous voice, everything seemed like a perfect improvisation, created at the very moment of the performance.
Jutarnji list (Croatia)
• 9 September 2010
Celebration of the millennium of the Solesmes Abbey
Programme: Laudis vox et organi
Eglise Notre Dame de Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France
www.abbayedesolesmes.fr
• 18 September 2010
Festival Kultursommer, Speyer, Germany
Programme: Abbo Abbas
www.vokalmusik-romanische-strasse.de
• 2 October 2010
Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Gent, Belgium
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.debijloke.be
• 7 October 2010
Flanders Festival - Mechelen, Geel, Belgium
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.festivalmechelen.be
• 3, 5, 6 November 2010
Lincoln Center, White Light Festival, New York, USA
Programme: Judith
new.lincolncenter.org