EUBO winds

Sarah Aßmann took her first oboe lessons in Bielefeld, her home town in Germany. Deciding to specialise in early music, she began baroque oboe studies in Leipzig and later in Trossingen in the class of Martin Stadler. Currently she studies with Alfredo Bernardini at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Additionally, she has had lessons with Katharina Arfken, Paul Dombrecht and Marcel Ponseele. Sarah has performed in both orchestral and chamber music projects throughout Europe and Israel, with Ensemble 94, Capella Laurentiana, Concerto d’Amsterdam, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, at the Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht, the Aqua Musica Festival Amsterdam and recently with the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging and Jos van Veldhoven. Sarah has also taken part in orchestral academies like the Carnegie Hall Professional Workshop with Ton Koopman, the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra with Masaaki Suzuki, the Orchestre Français des Jeunes Baroque with Christophe Rousset and the Académie d’Ambronay with Hervé Niquet.

Laura Duthuillé began studying recorder, but soon discovered the modern oboe and had lessons with Jean-Marc Philippe in Brittany. She enrolled at the Conservatory of Nantes and in 2002 obtained prizes for both oboe and chamber music. She continued her studies with Daniel Arrignon at the Conservatory of Rueil-Malmaison where she finished her course of modern oboe with a first prize. In 2005, she turned to the baroque oboe and enrolled at the early music department of the Conservatory of Paris to study with Michel Henry. Currently she studies with Alfredo Bernardini at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona. She has followed intensive orchestral courses with Ton Koopman and Christophe Rousset and plays regularly with various groups including Les Goûts Réunis, La Symphonie Saint Julien, La Capella Genevensis, Le Capriccio Français, and L'orchestre de chambre des Musiciens du Louvre.

Amy Power was born in 1980. She grew up in Australia, where she completed her undergraduate degree in 2002 with first-class Honours in music at the University of Melbourne. She received her Bachelor of music in recorder at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2006, and is currently completing her Masters degree at the same institution in baroque oboe with Alfredo Bernardini and in recorder with Walter van Hauwe. As an active musician on both instruments she has performed in The Netherlands and across Europe with such ensembles as The Royal Wind Music, Musica ad Rhenum, Florilegium Musicum, Göttinger Barockorchester, New Dutch Academy, and she is a member of Satyr's Band and the chamber group which she founded, Ensemble Garnier. While based in Europe, she also returns to Australia every year to perform and give master-classes.

Marie Hervé began her musical studies with the recorder at the Conservatoire National de Région d’Angers. Then, in parallel with a university course in modern literature, she had lessons from Michelle Tellier and Jean-Pierre Nicolas before entering the Conservatoire National Supérior de Musique de Lyon in the class of Pierre Hamon, obtaining her diploma in 2004. Since then, she has played regularly in various chamber groups and orchestras in festivals such as Arques la Bataille, la Vézère and automne en normandie. She has played under the direction of Reinhard Goebel and with the ensemble Café Zimmermann. Since 2005 she has studied baroque bassoon with Alexandre Salles at the Ecole National de Musique d’Orsay. She works regularly with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and in 2007 was a member of the Orchestre Baroque Français des Jeunes directed by Christophe Rousset. She currently teaches recorder at the Conservatoire National de Région in Rouen.

José Rodrigues Gomes was born in Portugal in 1981, and began his musical career by studying recorder in Lisbon with César Viana and subsequently Joana Amorim. In 2003 he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He currently studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, The Netherlands. He finished his Bachelor’s degree in recorder in 2007, having studied with Peter van Heyghen and Daniël Brüggen, and is now studying historical bassoon with Donna Agrell and Wouter Verschuren. He has performed widely in The Netherlands and Belgium on both recorder and bassoon, with musicians including Jill Feldman, Michael Chance, Alfredo Bernardini, Frank de Bruine, Sébastian Marq, Barthold Kuijken, Jed Wentz and Christina Pluhar.

Hylke Rozema started playing the horn in the Royal Beemster Fanfare Orchestra and was soon accepted in the junior class of the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He continued his studies with Peter Hoekmeijer and Jaap van der Vliet at the conservatory of Utrecht, graduating in 2005. During his studies he participated in masterclasses with Marie Louise Neunecker, Frøydis Ree Wekre, William Purvis, Claude Maury and Peter Damm. Subsequently he specialised in baroque and natural horn at the Conservatory in Amsterdam with Teunis van der Zwart, and graduated with a masters degree in June 2008. He has played at the Early Music Festival in Utrecht, the Orlando Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival and Courchevel MusicAlps, and worked with musicians including Rene Jacobs, Jos van Immerseel, Robert Levin and Graziella Contratto. Hylke plays with a number of Dutch early music ensembles and regularly works with the Freiburger Barock Orchester; in October 2008 he will tour Japan with fortepianist Mayumi Eguro.

Misha Sporck was born in the Netherlands and began studying piano, viola and horn from an early age. In 2001 he began studying at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Daan Manneke for composition and horn with Peter Hoekmeijer, and graduated in 2006. Concurrently, he studied natural horn with Teunis van de Zwart. He is now studying for his master’s degree in Amsterdam with Hermann Jeurissen. In 2007 he attended an exchange programme at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with horn professor Marie Luise Neunecker. Misha has worked with several orchestras, including the Radio Chamber Orchestra, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. In 2000 he was winner of the Bach-concours of Den Haag with Bachage, a composition for orchestra. In the same year he also won second prize in the Prinses Christina Concours, a national competition for young composers. His compositions were premiered in St Petersburg at the White Nights Festival.