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Johanna Bartz
TRAVERSO

Johanna Bartz is a traverso player and active in various musical fields. She is the founder and artistic director of ensemble astrophil & stella and performs music ranging from Renaissance to contemporary with groups such as Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Le Concert des Nations, Anima Eterna, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Gli Incogniti, Sollazzo, Continuum, Arlequin Philosophe et al.

Johanna is professor for historical flutes at the HEM Geneva and teaches the renaissance traverso at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. READ MORE >

A GARDEN OF BLACK FLOWERS - astrophil & stella

published in May 2025 by Albus Editions - order here! >>

“The four musicians are perfectly attuned to each other in their playing, giving Bartz complete freedom for her diminutions.” (Klassik Heute)

"Melancholic and beautiful floral splendour ... sublimely revealed inner world of emotions." (Rondo) to the article >>
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Pourquoy doux rossignol | Jacques Hotteterre | Ensemble Tañer de Gala

F f f o o o l l l l l l i i i e e e s s s I: +/- 155.56
The first piece of my series F f f o o o l l l l l l i i i e e e s s s - distortion of the familiar (running since 2021).

Drei Lieder nach Texten von Coray | Ina Lohr (1903 - 1983)
Played on a flute by M.M.Mönnig, c. 1920

“Johanna Bartz is one of the young early music artists who are able to captivate the audience not only through their virtuosity, but above all through a sensual and colourful musical interpretation.” (Celler Presse)

“Johanna Bartz’s performance of the flute sonata in a minor by C.P.E. Bach astounded the entire audience. Alongside with pleasingly played scales came adventurous oscillations in the melody, lifting and breaking sections, as if new aesthetical ideas fought with the old ones. Three times bravo!
(Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten)

"...With the young flutist Johanna Bartz we have been introduced to a master on the historical flauto traverso. Her sound is soft and charming, warm and pure, tender and sensitive, colourful and very differentiated, [her playing is] aware of style and expression. …" (Das Orchester)

Lamentabile | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | with Pablo Sosa del Rosario

"A gem from a past age ... soft and tender, delicate ... full of emotions ... a celebration of breathtaking virtuosity ... Johanna Bartz performed brilliantly on the traverso." (Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung)

O luci belle | Biagio Marini | astrophil & stella