Almut Frenzel-Riehl
Almut Frenzel - Riehl was trained at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Prof. Peters, at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Weithaas, and at the Lucerne University of Music with Prof. Hamann, where she completed the soloist exam. Additionally, she studied Baroque violin with Brian Dean. Along with numerous prizes in solo and chamber music competitions, she was a recipient of the “Villa Musica” stipend and received a special prize from the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.” She served as deputy concertmaster of the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra before becoming a member of the Frankfurter Opera and Museum Orchestra in 2004. Furthermore, she is a member of various chamber music groups (“Kreisler-Quintett,” “mutare” Ensemble) and Baroque formations (“Orphelian-Quartett,” “Händel-Solisten” Karlsruhe). Almut Frenzel - Riehl works as a concertmaster in several chamber orchestras, such as the “Dresdner Festspielorchester” and the “Neues Orchester” Cologne, with which she recently earned an Echo Klassik Award for the recording of Bach’s Luther Cantatas on “harmonia mundi.” As a violist and member of the “Quintetto di Lucca,” she traveled in 2017 to a festival in the Abruzzo region of Italy. A focus area is teaching; she works as a lecturer for various youth orchestras and as a coach for the string sections of the Giessen City Theatre.
Almut Frenzel - Riehl was trained at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Prof. Peters, at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Weithaas, and at the Lucerne University of Music with Prof. Hamann, where she completed the soloist exam. Additionally, she studied Baroque violin with Brian Dean. Along with numerous prizes in solo and chamber music competitions, she was a recipient of the “Villa Musica” stipend and received a special prize from the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.” She served as deputy concertmaster of the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra before becoming a member of the Frankfurter Opera and Museum Orchestra in 2004. Furthermore, she is a member of various chamber music groups (“Kreisler-Quintett,” “mutare” Ensemble) and Baroque formations (“Orphelian-Quartett,” “Händel-Solisten” Karlsruhe). Almut Frenzel - Riehl works as a concertmaster in several chamber orchestras, such as the “Dresdner Festspielorchester” and the “Neues Orchester” Cologne, with which she recently earned an Echo Klassik Award for the recording of Bach’s Luther Cantatas on “harmonia mundi.” As a violist and member of the “Quintetto di Lucca,” she traveled in 2017 to a festival in the Abruzzo region of Italy. A focus area is teaching; she works as a lecturer for various youth orchestras and as a coach for the string sections of the Giessen City Theatre.