Dorothee Oberlinger

​Recorder player, ensemble leader, conductor, festival director, and university professor — Dorothee Oberlinger is one of the most influential personalities in the field of early music today, having received prestigious music awards such as the Echo Klassik, the Diapason d’Or, the ICMA Award, and the Opus Klassik. As a soloist, she has been working with her Ensemble 1700 since she founded it in 2002, as well as with renowned baroque ensembles and orchestras such as the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, Musica Antiqua Köln, Arte del Mondo, B’Rock, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Academy of Ancient Music, L’Arte dei Suonatori, Zefiro, and Concerto Köln.

 

After completing her studies in Cologne, Amsterdam, and Milan, she made her international debut in 1997, winning first prize in The Society of Recorder Players–Moeck Solo Recorder Competition at Wigmore Hall in London. Since then, she has appeared at important festivals and concert halls such as the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Tonhalle in Zürich, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. In addition to her involvement with the music of the 17th and 18th centuries, Dorothee Oberlinger also devotes herself to contemporary music.

 

She has been a professor at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2004, where she directed the Institute for Early Music from 2008 to 2018. Dorothee Oberlinger is the director of the Bad Arolsen Baroque Festival and, since 2018, the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival. Since 2016, she has regularly conducted highly acclaimed baroque opera productions with her Ensemble 1700.