Vita Anne-Suse Enßle
Anne-Suse Enßle was born in Backnang (Germany) in 1988. She started playing the recorder at the age of 8 and has not lost her fascination with this instrument since. From 2007 to 2014, Anne-Suse Enßle studied recorder with professor Dorothee Oberlinger at Mozarteum University in Salzburg, specialising in both instrumental pedagogics and solo performance. From 2012 until 2015, she also studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) with professor Carsten Eckert. She graduated with honours from both these courses of study and received an honorary prize awarded by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna for her achievements in 2015. In addition, she studied Baroque bassoon for a number of semesters with Makiko Kurabayashi and Jennifer Harris.
Apart from her solo career, Anne-Suse Enßle is a passionate chamber music player. With “Duo Enßle-Lamprecht” (recorder & percussion), which has been in existence for more than 10 years, she dedicates herself to music from the Middle Ages as well as contemporary music. Intensive collaborations with composers, art communication projects, workshops for composition students as well as the large “Mönch von Salzburg” (Monk of Salzburg) project are but a few areas of activity of this multifaceted and unique duo.
In 2013, Anne-Suse Enßle won first place at the Moeck/SRP Competition in London and was furthermore a finalist for the “Casinos Austria Rising Star Award”.
Scholarships that she held range from the Roychi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund and University Mozarteum Salzburg (merit-based scholarship) to the PE society for the promotion of music, Mannheim.
In 2018, she received a Start Scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Art and Culture.
Her musical journey is documented on several CD recordings, which have been released, among others, by audax records (the most recent release is the “Nicodemus Passion”, audax records, 2024).
Both as a soloist and as an ensemble member, Anne-Suse Enßle has performed at renowned festivals, such as the PODIUM Festival, European Church Music Festival Schwäbisch Gmünd, Baroque Festival Bad Arolsen, Bach Festival Leipzig, Tonlagen-Festival Hellerau, Klangspuren Festival Tyrol, Donaufestwochen, Greenwich Early Music Festival or the Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci.
As a Baroque bassoon player, she is in great demand as an orchestra player and has participated in CD recordings and operas in this role.
Being a member of prize juries and an instructor round off Anne-Suse Enßle’s professional tasks: Among other things, she was a judge at the young talent competition of the ERPS (European Recorder Players Society) and “Prima la musica”, as well as an an instructor at “Tage der Schulmusik” (School Music Days) in Halle an der Saale and the 2017 ERTA congress. From 2018-2022, she was vice president of ERPS and since 2018, she has been the chairwoman of ERTA Austria. She has been passing on her knowledge to alumni and young professional musicians as a mentor in the mentoring programme of Mozarteum University Salzburg and is regularly consulted as an external domain expert for recorder in different university contexts.
From 2015—2019, Anne Suse-Enßle gained experience in university teaching in her function as assistant for artistic education in Carsten Eckert’s recorder class (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). In the summer term of 2019, she led the recorder class at the Carinthian National Conservatoire, Klagenfurt as a temporary replacement. Since 2020, she has been leading the recorder studies at the Tyrolean State Conservatory Innsbruck and teaching at the Innsbruck branch of Mozarteum University Salzburg.
She lives in Salzburg, taking care of the needs of five-person household jointly with her husband.