Lucia Mense Curriculum
Recorder
Concert Activities
- Performance of Medieval Music, Renaissance and the Baroque: chamber music projects, Opera - and Oratorio performances with Ensembles from Europe, the Baltic States and the USA
- Modern Music: further development of the repertoire in
collaboration with diverse composers. Numerous world premiere performances.
Improvisation.
Music Theatre.
- Ensembles / on going projects:
- Duo Recorder and Harpsichord; Duo Recorder and Lute
- Ars Choralis Coeln, Director: Maria
Jonas (Music of the middle Ages; Instruments: Women’s Schola,
Fidel, Flute, Harp, Symphonia, Bells)
www.maria-jonas.de/de/arschoraliscoeln - Ala Aurea (voice, portative organ, flutes), www.maria-jonas.de/de/alaaurea
- Electronic Counterpoint (solo-performance for recorder and live-electronics)
- Duo Recorder and Electric Guitar; Duo Recorder and Percussion
- ensemble dialog: musicians from China, Switzerland and Germany with pipa, recorder, cello and percussion; www.vimeo.com/7591482
- koan trio (viola d´amore, gu-zheng, recorder), www.koantrio.info
- multimode - ensemble for experimental music
- Radio recordings and productions: WDR, DLR, ORF, Radio Bremen, SWR, HR, Euroradio, MDR, RAI Italia
CD-Productions
- 2011 electronic counterpoint
new compositions for recorder and electronics by Marc Sabat, Ulrich Krieger, Manfred Stahnke, Sascha L. Lemke and Georg Hajdu
label satelita www.satelita.de, a-musik Köln www.a-musik.com - 2011 Les Maries du Rhin
Ensemble Ala Aurea, musical director: Maria Jonas
label Raumklang, www.raumklang.de - 2009 Hildegard von Bingen: In festis Beatae Mariae Virginis
Ensemble Ars Choralis Coeln, musical director: Maria Jonas Raumklang, www.raumklang.de
- 2009 Canto novello - Italian Laude
Ensemble Ars Choralis Coeln, musical director: Maria Jonas
Ensemble Oni Wytars
label Raumklang, www.raumklang.de - 2007 Letare Germania - Music of the Middle Ages for Elizabeth of Thuringia
Ensemble Ars Choralis Coeln, musical director: Maria Jonas
edition chrismon, www.chrismon.de - 2006 Rose van Jhericho - Liederbuch der Anna von Köln (um1500)
Ars Choralis Coeln, musical director: Maria Jonas
Raumklang, www.raumklang.de
choc - Le Monde de la Musique, 5 Diapason - 2004 Complete cycle of “Sequenza”- and solo works
by Luciano Berio
with members of Ensemble Moderne and the Arditti-Quartet:
Recording of “Gesti” for Solo Recorder
(Co-Production by Mode Records/ New York and Hessen Radio)
Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2007,
Premio del Disco Amadeus 2008 - 2003 Touch Three - Portrait of composer Phill Niblock:
Recording of „Lucid Sea“ for Recorder(s)
(Co-Production by Deutschland Radio and Touch Records, London) - 2002 ...Until... - Three versions of the composition „...Until...“ by
Klarenz Barlow
(Co-Production by Los Angeles River Records and Radio Bremen) - 2001 L´Ambitiosa - Virtuosic instrumental music of the Italian Early
Baroque
with Canzoni Cölln (sempre la musica Recordings)
- 1998 Von Tristans Klage zur Kunst der Fuge
with Flautando Köln (Helios-Verlag) - 1996 La Spiritata with Flautando Köln (Ars Musici)
Films
- A tour through China and Switzerland with the ensemble dialog on www.vimeo.com/7591482
with music by l. berio, du wei, e. gaudibert
Festivals (selected)
- Tage Alter Musik in Herne
- Arolser Barockfestspiele
- Festival Blokflute & Electronics at Ijsbreker/ Amsterdam
- Internationales Symposium der ERTA
- Romanischer Sommer Köln
- Banchetto Musicale/ Vilnius
- Music from Germany/ Villa Aurora (Los Angeles)
- Alte-Musik-Tage Stockstadt
- Musica Nova in Deutschlandfunk
- Schleswig–Holstein Festival
- Waterford New Music Week (Ireland)
- Musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst/ Graz
- Jazz Festival Moers
Concert tours
...in Europe, Baltic States, the Balkans, Russia, Nicaragua, USA, China
Lecturer
...at courses and seminars about diverse Subjects concerning Early and New Music in Germany, Holland, California, Nicaragua
Education
- 2000-01 Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan
Major: Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance,
Primary teacher: Pedro Memelsdorff - 1994-98 Sweelinck-Konservatorium, Amsterdam
Recorder studies: Walter van Hauwe
Major: Contemporary Music
1998 Concert exam ”Uitvoerend Musikus” - 1994-96 FolkwangHochschule
Duisburg/ Essen
Traverse Flute studies: Laurence Dean - 1988-96 Musikhochschule Köln
Recorder studies: Prof. Günther Höller - 1994 “Reifeprüfung” (distinguished)
- 1996 Concert Exam
