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Susanne Fröhlich is a recorder player and, in addition to early and traditional music, devotes herself primarily to contemporary music, as well as improvisation and new concert formats. She passed her studies with distinction at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with P. T. Leenhouts, at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. G. Lünenbürger and at the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt with Johannes Fischer. In October 2019, she completed her artistic-scientific research project on "The New Potential of a Recorder in the 21st Century" at the University of Arts Graz, also with honors. In 2020 she was funded by the Berlin Senate through the Working Scholarships for Serious Music and Sound Art, and was also awarded the "Award of Excellence 2020" by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. In 2022 she was a prize winner at the German Jazz Award and the Tonali Music Award with the Trickster Orchestra.
Susanne regularly gives concerts and workshops within and outside Europe. A former founding member of the recorder quartet QNG - Quartet New Generation, she performs both as a soloist and in various formations as well as in several music theater productions with Saâdane Afif, Ari Benjamin Meyers, andcompany&Co, and Constanza Macras/dorkypark, among others. She has participated in numerous world premieres in world-renowned concert halls and festivals, including Ensemble Adapter, Figura Ensemble, Ictus Ensemble, Marc Sinan Company, Neue Vokalsolisten and Trickster Orchestra.
Susanne has won numerous international competitions and scholarships in Berlin, Darmstadt, Göttingen, Graz, Krakow, New York and Rotterdam. She has lived and taught in Berlin since the summer of 2004 and has held a teaching position at the Berlin University of the Arts since April 2010.
The main focus of her teaching is the interpretation of contemporary music with the aim of: teaching contemporary playing techniques, dealing with notation and interpretation of contemporary music, as well as understanding aesthetic concepts intrinsic to the works. The training here is not limited to the rehearsal of central solo and chamber music works. Through the comprehensive range of courses offered by the various institutions, students are given the opportunity to independently realize an artistic concept, which may also include their own improvisations, collaborations with composition students, lighting and spatial design, as well as dialogues with other art forms. Furthermore, the development of one's own personality, stage presence and artistic expressiveness is in the foreground.

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