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About
Johanna Bartz
TRAVERSO
Johanna Bartz is a traverso player and active in various musical fields.
She teaches the renaissance traverso at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and is the founder and artistic director of the ensemble astrophil & stella. She 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. From September 2024 on she will be professor for traverso at the HEM Geneva.
"...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)
Allemande from the Solo in a minor BWV 1013 | J. S. Bach
"... Johanna Bartz proved her ability of natural fluency in her phrasing and her diligence for ornamental motives and dynamics. ... " (www.nuvol.com)
Pourquoy doux rossignol | Jacques Hotteterre | Ensemble Tañer de Gala
Io son ferito (live) | Palestrina/Bovicelli | astrophil & stella
(Claire Piganiol, triple harp & Johanna Bartz, renaissance traverso)
"… 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)
Lamentabile | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | Pablo Sosa del Rosario & Johanna Bartz
O luci belle | Biagio Marini | astrophil & stella
"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)
Drei Lieder nach Texten von Coray | Ina Lohr (1903 - 1983)
Played on a flute by M.M.Mönnig, c. 1920
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).
“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)
“Rise, follow” by Mara Winter for two renaissace bass flutes; performed by Mara Winter and Johanna Bartz; recorded and mixed by Clara de Asís; mastered by A. F. Jones.
“Bone” by Johanna Bartz & Fahmi Mursyid
bone flute: built, performed and recorded by Johanna Bartz;
composition, production, mixing & mastering by Fahmi Mursyid.