Curriculum Vitae

Andrea Lieberknecht was born in 1965 in Augsburg. She studied music under Professor Paul Meisen at the academy of music in Munich. In 1988, even before finishing her studies, she became the soloist flute player with the Munich Radio Orchester. Three years later she changed to the same position in The West German Radio Symphony Orchester in Cologne. As a soloist and member of a chamber music group, with the ARCIS Quintett and with her pianist, Jan Philip Schulze, she has won many national and international competitions: i.e., the international music competition "Prager Frühling" in 1991, the International Flute Competition Kobe in 1993, the German Music Competition in 1996, the ARD-Competition and the international chamber music competitions in Colmar, Trapani and Belgrad.
Since then, recitals, solo concerts and chamber music concerts with well-known musicians, have taken her around the world. She has played solo concerts and chamber music concerts at international festivals such as The Ansbacher Bachwochen, The Rheingaufestival, The Schleswig-Holstein-Festival, festivals in Iida and Hamamatsu in Japan, and The Glasbeni September Maribor in Slovenia. Moreover, during the years 1993 to 1996, she was the solo flute player at The Richard-Wagner-Festival in Bayreuth. In Germany, she has given flute concerts with The Cologne Radio Symphony Orchester, The Munich Symphonists, as well as with the State Philharmony of Rheinland-Palatinate, The Augsburg Philharmonists, The Northwest German Philharmony and various chamber music orchesters.

Numerous compact disc recordings with solo and chamber music, some of them prize-winning, document her versatile artistic activity.

She taught at the academy of music in Cologne from 1996 to 1999. Since 2002 she has been a flute professor at the academy of music in Hannover. She is regularly asked to be a jury member at flute competitions and she teaches master classes in Europe, Japan and Australia.

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Newspaper Reviews

"This top-class musician cast a spell on her enthusiastic audience with the Concert in D Minor, KV 314. Her, in all ranges, wonderful, light, soft and nevertheless rich, full sound, makes even the tiniest grace note seem so easy. Her own cadences emphasized her music style - orignal, played with wit and much suspence."
(Neue Westfälische Zeitung)

"Andrea Lieberknecht revealed, in alternation of wonderful soft gentleness and suggestive conjuration, through brillant playing and free rapsodish development, all conceivable coloring and phrasing possibilities of the flute."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"Andrea Lieberknecht enchanted her audience with Jacques Ibert`s Flute Concert. The flute cannot be played more beautifully than in the second movement (Andante). Heavenly melodic lines with a fantastically agile way of producing tons and immaculate intonation….."
(Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger)

"Indisputable, the agility of her technique; full of feeling, her musicality in the second movement in which she, with warm timbre in a peaceful mood, lets time stand still."
(Augsburger Allgemeine at a performance of the Ibert Concert)

"The Fluteconcert in D Minor Wq 22 by C.P.E. Bach was the evening`s highlight, mainly because of the outstanding performance of the soloist, Andrea Lieberknecht. She interpreted the second movement with a soft, sensitive and beautiful sound, analogous to the baroque way of performance. The quick first and third movements were brillant and nimble. She set off a real fireworks, especially in the third movement."
(Weilburger Tagesblatt)

"Andrea Lieberknecht was the soloist in C.P.E. Bach`s Fluteconcert in D Minor. Her admirable technique was only surpassed by her musical shaping of the concert. She is one of the few flutists who is able to produce a sound similar to that of a wooden travers flute.
In J.S. Bach`s Brandenburg Concert Nr. 4, BWV 1049, she was able, in a remarkable way, to make her flute resound , like one of Bach`s required "Fiauti dÈcho" (Echo-Recorder) ."
(Frankfurter Neue Presse)

"Andrea Lieberknecht and Jan Philip Schulze demonstrate a blind confidence playing together, listening and reacting to each other, creating a perfect match that could not be better."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"There is nothing to object to stylistically in Andrea Lieberknecht`s and Jan Philip Schulze`s playing. They agree with one another on grace notes. A very clear and articulated performance by both musicians..."
(Aachener Nachrichten)

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