Welcome to the website of the recorder player Anne-Suse Enßle!
I am delighted that you are interested in my work. I’d like to invite you to browse this website, learn more about different aspects of my artistic work and immerse yourself in the fascinating soundscapes of different recorders.
Although the recorder has often taken second billing to other instruments, it has reclaimed its rightful place on concert stages in the past decades. Its versatility offers manifold possible uses, which range from music of the Middle Ages to contemporary compositions. This great variety has been a source of constant inspiration for my work and it motivates me to become even better acquainted with this instrument in its manifold facets, to understand and play it even better.
Combining different music genres and stylistic eras into thematically appealing concert programmes, research surrounding the musical pieces’ contexts, but also my own arrangements, along with improvising and experimenting are further building blocks of my creative engagement with this fascinating instrument.
Chamber music has always held a special place in my heart and I am delighted that I have the opportunity to bring this passion to my different musical projects. The magic that can unfold between participants during music-making and may touch and inspire both the players and the audience is an essential and motivating aspect of my musical work.
Apart from my own artistic projects, I am particularly passionate about imparting my knowledge and experience to future generations through lively teaching. As a lecturer at the Tyrolean State Conservatory, I have the opportunity to pass on my fascination to recorder students. As the chairwoman of the Austrian section of ERTA (European Recorder Teachers Association), I am campaigning for recorder teachers’ and lecturers’ concerns and trying to vitalize our work through networking, as well as an attractive array of advanced training courses.
In addition, I am concerned with questions surrounding equality in the music industry in the context of the JEDE*RFRAU Association, being one of the artistic directors of the annual JEDE*RFRAU Festival.
Anne-Suse Enßle studied recorder at Mozarteum University Salzburg with Prof. Dorothee Oberlinger and at the University of Music and Performative Arts Vienna with Prof. Carsten Eckert. Having gained experience in university teaching in this field (e.g. in her role as a teaching assistant in Prof. Eckert’s recorder class, 2015-2019 and an interim professorship at the Carinthian State Conservatory in the summer term 2019), she currently holds a recorder professorship at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck (since 2020). In her artistic career, she is an avid soloist and member of a variety of ensembles dedicated to early and contemporary music. Some of the focal points of her work involve collaborations with composers, developing new and innovative concert formats, working with and for young audiences, interdisciplinary projects, as well as chamber music at the highest level.
