Vita
During her earlier musical education, Eva learnt the piano, recorder and violin at various local music schools in Germany and Austria.
In 2010, Eva obtained her Bachelor degree cum laude at the Amsterdam Conservatoire, where she studied under the tuition of Paul Leenhouts and Jorge Isaac. In 2014, she completed the Masters program with Antonio Politano at La Haute École de Musique de Lausanne.
Eva received schlolarships and was awarded several cultural as well as first prizes at national and international competitions, both as soloist as well as an ensemble player. She reguarly takes part in recording sessions and premiers of new works. Besides early music, her interest lies in contemporary solo and chamber music, which she is exploring in different settings, a.o. with harp, accordion or prepared piano.
Eva is an active ensemble performer and can be heard on more than 10 CDs. As a member of The Royal Wind Music (from 2007 to 2016), a double sextet of Renaissance recorders, the award-winning recorder quintet Seldom Sene and of the Recorder Ensemble PRIME for contemporary music, she gives concerts in Europe, USA and Taiwan, and performed in venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw aan het IJ (Amsterdam), the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Women's Leadership Center of the Omega Institute Rhinebeck/NY. She played concerts at prestigious festivals such as the MA Festival Brugge, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziek Week, Berliner Tage der Alten Musik, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Europäische Wochen Passau, Blockflötenfesttage Stockstadt, Greenwich Early Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival and Encontros de Música Antiga de Loulé a.o. In 2016, Eva performed as a soloist with the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra in Tromsø. Besides performing, Eva is teaching in the area around St. Gallen (CH) at musicschools and the Kantonssschule Heerbrugg. In 2022, she was giving Renaissance consort lessons at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (D). She has been invited as a juror to several youth competitions such as Open Recorders Days Amsterdam or Schweizerischer Jugendmusikwettbewerb.