Tutors 2026

Tutors announced once a week from the 1st of April until August 1st.

International Tutors

Susanne Fröhlich is a recorder player and passed her studies with distinction at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with P. T. Leenhouts and W. van Hauwe, at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. G. Lünenbürger and at the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt with J. Fischer. In October 2019, she completed her artistic-academic research project on "The new potential of a 21st century recorder" at the University of Arts Graz, also with honours. In 2020 she was awarded the "Award of Excellence 2020" by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. She has held a teaching position at the University of the Arts since April 2010. 

Susanne has won numerous international competitions and scholarships, including in Berlin, Darmstadt, Graz, Krakow, New York and Rotterdam. She recently received scholarships from the Musikfonds Berlin and the Akademie der Künste Berlin to develop new works for recorder and electronics together with the sound artist Gerriet Krishna Sharma. In 2022, she won the German Jazz Prize and the TONALi Music Award with the Trickster Orchestra. She has released CD recordings on labels such as ECM, NEOS, GENUIN classics and Pantopia music.  

In addition to early and traditional music, Susanne devotes herself primarily to contemporary music, as well as improvisation, creative composition and new concert formats. She regularly gives international concerts and workshops. As a former founding member of the recorder quartet QNG - Quartet New Generation, she performs both as a soloist and in various chamber music formations and different productions in the fields of visual arts, opera and music theatre, including collaborations with Ari Benjamin Meyers, andcompany&Co, Saâdane Afif and Wojtek Blecharz. She has performed in numerous world premières at renowned concert halls and festivals around the world, including Archipel, Donaueschinger Musiktage, ECLAT, KONTAKTE, MaerzMusik, Musica, Ultraschall, Warschauer Herbst, Wien Modern and Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik with renown ensembles like Ensemble Adapter, Ictus Ensemble, Marc Sinan Company, Neue Vokalsolisten and Trickster Orchestra.  

Stegmann proved one of the stars of the afternoon, especially with her superb performance of Vivaldi’s Concerto in C for soprano recorder which brought an added enthusiastic ovation after its virtuosic first movement." (Daily Telegraph, January 2016). She “loves the stage and her instrument and feels the music until the tip of her toes” (Stadsnieuws Tilburg 2011).
 
She is a passionate performer and teacher of early and contemporary recorder music, teaching workshops and masterclasses throughout the year in many  European countries and beyond. Since 2014 she is recorder professor at the Royal Academy of Music in  London, where she teaches a selected and enthusiastic group of next generation recorder players.
 
Since 2013 she is co-organising the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam; a biennale which has quickly grown into one of the biggest recorder events worldwide and brings together recorder amateurs and professionals alike from across the globe.

Anna regularly tours with her own ensembles Ensemble Odyssee and The Royal Wind Music. With these ensembles and as a soloist she has recorded Cds for the labels Glossa, Pan Classics, Lindoro and others. She also fosters a close musical relationship with violinist Jorge Jiménez - a duo which explores all music from the middle ages to the present day in exciting new concert formats.  As a guest musician and soloist she has appeared in renowned ensembles such as La Risonanza (Fabio Bonizzoni), L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), Musica Sequenza  (Burak Özdemir), The New Dutch Academy (Simon Murphy) , the Rotterdams Philarmonisch Orkest (led by Jordi Savall and Peter Dijkstra).

Anna began her journey as recorder player by taking private lessons with Gudula Rosa. Studies with Winfried Michel (Musikhoschchule Münster and Musikakademie Kassel) followed, before she settled in Amsterdam, where she studied with Paul Leenhouts and obtained her Master of Music with  distinction in 2011.

Chris is passionate about all aspects of music, from performance as a solo and chamber recorder player, conducting orchestras and ensembles, to teaching the next generation of young musicians.

​Currently running the recorder departments at the Junior and Senior Schools of the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music in Manchester UK, visiting tutor at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, chamber music and the orchestral programme at L' Escola Joan Llongueres in Barcelona, he is also in demand worldwide working with recorder players and composers. He has given masterclasses, concerts, workshops and adjudicated competitions at the Royal Academy of Music, Krakow Academy of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Dulwich College Singapore, and at the universities of Hull, York and Birmingham.

​As a conductor, Chris has trained the young musicians of the Junior RNCM Wind Ensemble, Stockport Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Recorder Orchestra of Great Britain, ensembles at Chetham's School of Music and currently conducts the Junior RNCM Chamber Orchestra. He has been invited to conduct ensembles throughout the UK, Singapore, Spain and Germany.

​Chris performs solo repertoire from the 12th Century up to music of today. Composers such as Thomas Simaku, Edward Gregson and  Michal Pawelek have composed and dedicated solo works for Chris. His recitals have taken place in the Wigmore Hall London, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Philharmonic Hall, Krakow, Budapest Castle, and in venues in Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria and Spain.

​Chris studied recorder with Ross Winters, Annabel Knight and Anneke Boeke, conducting with Jordi Mora, Dalcroze Eurhythmics with Bethan Habron - James and at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and L'Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona.

​Awards include 1st Prize at the Moeck/SRP International Recorder Player Competition 2007, BBC Fame Academy Bursary 2007, Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and 2nd Prize, Prix du Jury and Gaudeamus Prize  at the Penderecki Contemporary Music Competition, Poland. He has adjudicated for the Moeck/SRP competition, the Prince's Prize, the Maisie Lewis Prize and Live Music Now!. Chris has broadcast live on and recorded for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Television. In 2012, Chris was awarded Honorary Membership (HonBC) of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for his achievements in the field of music and education.

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