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The German-born Baroque oboist and d'amore and taille player, Marianne Richert Pfau, received her graduate performance degrees in recorder and historical double reeds from the Musikhochschule Hamburg, and in music therapy from the Guildhall School of Music London. She completed her Ph.D. in historical in musicology at Stony Brook University in New York.
Marianne Pfau served for 32 years as Professor of Music History at the University of San Diego (1988-2020), where she also directed the Angelus Sacred Early Music Series (since 2012) and produces International Early Music Festivals. She now lives mostly in her native Germany again, and travels for music (as Baroque oboist) across Europe and less often the USA. Long focused on Medieval Studies, she has published a complete edition of Hildegard von Bingen's Symphonia, as well as a monograph, with Stefan Morent, entitled Hildegard von Bingen: Der Klang des Himmels (Cologne: Böhlau, 2005), which has garnered enthusiastic reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. She now publishes and records newly discovered Baroque music for hautbois for Prima-la-Musica, UK. Her book, with Bjoern Lindemann, on Hautbois Reed Making (Egge Verlag Kassel) was published in February 2011.
Active as Baroque oboist and recorder virtuoso, Marianne Pfau performs with American Bach Soloists (Director: Jeffrey Thomas), Jubilate Baroque Orchestra (Director: David Wilson), and California Bach Society (Director: Paul Flight) in San Francisco; Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and Corona del Mar Baroque Festival in Los Angeles; Trinity Consort in Oregon, and Bach Collegium San Diego (Director: Ruben Valenzuela). In Europe she plays with Musica Alta Ripa, Corona Musica Kassel, and the Cythara Ensemble Hamburg. She collaborated with New Trinity Baroque (Directors: John Holloway/Predrag Gosta) for the first time in March of 2011, in J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232.
Marianne Pfau has recorded four CD's on the labels Genuin (Leipzig) and Virtilia (Hamburg) with the trans-Atlantic Hautbois ensemble Toutes Suites she formed in August 2005 and directs. She also edits 18th-century music for Baroque oboe found in European archives, |
