Current dates, programs, presentations and special concert formats - from solo recitals to chamber music and conversation concerts to contemporary projects.
Music in diverse formations and formats:duos with harp, piano or cemblao,recorder trio and quartet, as well as professional recorder orchestra
Career, awards, artistic stations and premieres - from Karlsruhe to Amsterdam to Tokyo and current research.
News about concerts, projects and artistic research: current insights into Solange Komenda's musical work.
Solange Komenda gewinnt 1. Preis beim Orpheus Music Virtual Recorder Competition Australia Ende Januar 2026 wurde die Blockflötistin Solange …
Experience Solange Komenda live in concerts, ensemble projects and special event formats. Her performances combine the versatility of the recorder with programs between early music, contemporary sound worlds and chamber music dialogue.
The recorder is more than a historical instrument for Solange Komenda. In her programs, she opens up spaces between the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, contemporary music and new sound languages. The focus is not only on the repertoire, but also on different concert formats and concepts, as well as the question of how music carries, changes and connects cultural identities. As a musicologist, her focus is on contemporary recorder music from Japan. In her artistic-scientific promotion, she examines the significance of global cultural transfer on interpretations and receptions of this music, as well as the influences of the shakuhachi and its music before the Meiji period on current new compositions for recorder.
The recorder is an incredibly versatile and beautiful instrument. On the one hand, through its history: the recorder is, next to the voice, the oldest instrument in the world. This means that we recorder players perform music from antiquity to contemporary compositions. On the other hand, we play a variety of instruments. Probably, most people have the image of a school soprano recorder in mind and forget that there were entire recorder families in all centuries. In concerts, often more than 10 recorders are played, from the smallest (soprano, sopranino, garklein) to the largest (great bass, contrabass, subgreat bass and subcontrabass).Thus, a great variety of sounds and beautiful variation arises for the concert audience, but also for the player themselves.
"Passionately curious", that's how Albert Einstein described himself. That also applies to me! Already during my school days, I was always searching for the "why", curious and enthusiastic. And when you have the privilege of diving into such exciting fields, then an artistically-scientific dissertation is very close.
I started teaching very early. It has given me so much joy from the beginning to introduce children and adults to the recorder and its repertoire. Helping students to experience their development and seeing how enthusiasm is written on their faces and their motivation increases, are by far the most beautiful experiences that one can have as a teacher. "Learning is nothing other than discovering that something is possible. Teaching means showing someone that something is possible." (Fritz Perls) I am very grateful to be able to pursue this profession.