Originally from a little village in the north of Germany, now living in Basel (CH), flautist Johanna Bartz is a versatile and internationally sought-after musician.

She directs the ensemble astrophil & stella, which is dedicated to Renaissance and early Baroque music in a variety of instrumentations and concert formats. The 2025 debut album “a garden of black flowers” with Italian diminutions for renaissance traverso was enthusiastically received by the international press.
She also performs with ensembles across Europe, such as Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Johanna Soller, Masaki Suzuki, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Richard Egarr), Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Anima Eterna Brugge (Jos van Immerseel), Gli Incogniti (Amandine Beyer), La Chimera (Eduardo Eguëz), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Georg Kallweit/Berhard Forck), Berlin Baroque (Gerhard Oppelt), Sollazzo Ensemble (Anna Danilevskaia), CONTINUUM (Elina Albach), El Gran Teatro del Mundo (Julio Caballero), Wunderkammer Berlin (Mira Lange), hourglass (Liane Sadler) or Arlequin Philosophe (Pedro Memelsdorff). Additionally, she recorded numerous CD and broadcast recordings for rbb Kulturradio, MDR, SR, SRF, Radio de la Suisse Romande, Radio Catalunya, Querstand, Coviello, Passacaille, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and discreet editions.

Johanna devotes herself to her teaching activities with great enthusiasm: Still studying, in 2016 she became a teacher for the renaissance traverso at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (CH), and since 2024 she also is professor for historical flutes at the Haute école de Musique Geneva (CH). She is regularly invited to teach as a guest lecturer, among others to Mozarteum Salzburg (A), University of Arts Berlin (DE), Conservatorio A. Casella L’Aquila (IT), ESMUC Barcelona (ES), ESMAE Porto (PT), Conservatorium van Amsterdam (NL), University of Boulder (US), Bruckneruniversität Linz (AT), Academia Semitonía (ES), International Traverso Summercourse Budapest (HU) or Ensemble Nylandia (FIN).

In addition to historical flute instruments, Johanna is also dedicated to other forms of musical expression such as video and audio installations, contemporary music and improvisation. Together with Eva Leonie Fegers she was the co-founder and curator of the artist platform "Phosphenes" that presented and connected musicians during the Covid-19 pandemic. Between 2022-2026 she was developing the tonRaum Basel project together with Christina Hess and Alice Borciani. Johanna was an awardee of numerous foundations and international competitions.
She completed her master's degree with distinction at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2017, where she studied the traverso with Marc Hantai and the renaissance flute with Anne Smith. Before that she studied with Barthold Kuijken, Anne Pustlauk and Frank Theuns at the Royal Conservatory Brussels and with Christoph Huntgeburth at the University of Arts, Berlin, where she previously received a diploma in modern flute and instrumental pedagogy with Annette von Stackelberg.

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