From the first notes to the international stage

From early recorder training to the excellent study at the Karlsruhe University of Music and up to the artistic-scientific promotion

Solange Komenda was born in 1998 in Pforzheim and grew up in Bad Liebenzell in the Northern Black Forest.
Her recorder training began in a recorder circle, followed by three years of private lessons before she switched to the Calw Music School. 

She continued her career at the Karlsruhe University of Music under Prof. Karel van Steenhoven, where she completed a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in recorder, and a master's degree in contemporary music with distinction.
Additionally, Solange Komenda studied for two years at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam under Prof. Jorge Isaac and spent a semester abroad at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.

Solange Komenda has attended masterclasses with Maurice Steger, Erik Bosgraaf, Tosiya Suzuki, Jeremias Schwarzer, and Leila Schayegh, and received lessons from Kees Boeke, Walter van Hauwe, Jorge Isaak, Antonio Politano, Michael Form, and Stefan Temmingh.

She is currently a doctoral student in artistic-scientific promotion at the Karlsruhe University of Music under Prof. Dr. Arabella Pare.

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Photographer: Bart Treuren

Concert, ensemble and research

International competition successes, diverse chamber music projects, and a promotion at the interface of art and science. 

In April 2019, Solange Komenda reached the final of the "International Recorder Competition Tel Aviv 2019" in the category "Contemporary Israeli Piece". In the fall of 2021, she won first prize at the "Tre Fontane" competition in Trossingen in the category "Students at a music college - solo". In 2026, she was awarded the first prize of the "Orpheus Recorder Music Competition" in Australia. 

Solange Komenda is a member of the Quartet Revoiced ensemble, the Stuttgart Recorder Orchestra Unblocked, and the Timeless Express trio, with which she received the second prize at the "Tre Fontane Competition" in Trossingen in 2019. She is also part of the Sound in Silhouette duo and a regular playing partner of harpist Theresa Bogisch, with whom she performs in the EntreDeux ensemble. 

As deputy head of the music department, she works for the GEDOK, the association of communities of artists and art promoters, in Karlsruhe. 

Solange Komenda teaches with passion and is active as a recorder teacher at the Baden Conservatory in Karlsruhe.

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World premieres

​The collaboration with composers is a central part of my artistic work. Since 2021, numerous world premieres have been created, showcasing the recorder in different settings and sound spaces: solo, in ensemble, in dialogue with cello, piano, harpsichord, singing, percussion or electronics.

The curiosity for new forms of expression is just as much at the center as the search for contemporary sound languages for a traditional instrument. Many of the works were dedicated to me or my ensembles and premiered in Karlsruhe as well as at festivals and concert formats in Germany and abroad.

2025

​Reutz Drobnić, Veronika – Portrait of a flight of birds (2024)
Quartet Revoiced dedicated
For recorder quartet
UA January 2025, Karlsruhe

Häußler, Jan Paul – Again too late (2025)
For recorder, harpsichord and ensemble
UA February 2025, Karlsruhe
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Euteneuer-Rohrer, Ursula
– 2 pieces for recorders & percussion (2024)
I. For soprano recorder, tambourine and crotales
II. For contrabass recorder, spring drum and tamtam
UA February 2025, Karlsruhe

Reutz Drobnić, Veronika – Mogami (2025)
For bass recorder solo
UA April 2025, Karlsruhe

Euteneuer-Rohrer, Ursula – Take your time (2025)
for soprano, recorders & percussion
UA April 2025, Beinheim (France)

2024

Häußler, Jan Paul – Ensemble piece (2024) 
For ensemble
UA 
June 2024, Karlsruhe 
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Vetter, Andreas P. – Cloud mirror (2024) 
For recorder and electronics 
UA December 2024, Karlsruhe
R!SK Festival 
To the video

2023

Rice, Jaime – Whip.Skin (2021)
For Cello, Recorder and Piano
UA October 2023, ZKM Karlsruhe
Time Enjoyment Festival
To Video

Nishibe, Tetsuya – Burlesque (2021)
Timeless Express dedicated
For Recorder Trio
UA October 2023, Karlsruhe
To Video

2021

Mukai, Wataru – Light II for Recorder (2021)
Light II – for Recorder Solo)
UA January 2021, Karlsruhe

Nishbe, Tetsuya – Faith (2021)
Dedicated to Solange Komenda
For Tenor Recorder Solo
UA November 2021, Karlsruhe
To Video