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Niels Pfeffer

18.5.2026

EDUCATION

  • (2023) Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Julian Behr)

  • (2021) Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Jörg-Andreas Bötticher)

  • (2019) Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (Robert Hill) 

  • (2019) Royal Conservatoire The Hague (Zoran Dukić)

  • (2017) Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Jörg Halubek, Johannes Monno)

 

FOCUS (the most important from the last 4 years)

  • Historically informed performance practice on plucked instruments and harpsichord

  • Basso continuo

  • Contemporary music for early instruments

 

CONCERTS (10 most important from the last 4 years)

  • (2026) Venezia (IT), Chiesa di San Salvador, Chiesa di San Luca

  • (2026) Utrecht (NL), Tivoli Vredenburg

  • (2025) Basel (CH), Festival Alte Musik Basel (FAMB)

  • (2025) Freiburg (DE), Theater Freiburg

  • (2025) Mazeikiu (LT), Tarptautinis Mažeikių vargonų muzikos festivalis

  • (2024) Innsbruck (AT), Haus der Musik Innsbruck

  • (2024) Magdeburg (DE), Sonntagsmusik der Telemann-Gesellschaft Magdeburg

  • (2024) Merano (IT), Südtirol Festival Merano

  • (2024) Esterhazy (HU), Schloss Esterhazy

  • (2024) Ženeva / Geneva (CH), ACMA Festival 2024; Théâtre Les salons

 

PROJECTS (the most important from the last 4 years)

  • (2026) Chiaroscuro: Kapsperger‘s Madrigali (Schloss Weißenbrunn Stiftung)

  • (2025) À toi: Duo Mandelbrot, baroque music intertwined with impressionism, for baroque lute & violin (Les Amis de l'Esparrou)

  • (2025) Probstücke Digital, Digital edition of the 24 Probstücke by Johann Mattheson, including recordings (Südwestrundfunk Kultur)

 

DISCOGRAPHY

  • (2025) warblingQUIRE Records, WQ2501 (Denis Delair: The Violin Sonatas, Ensemble The Levée)

  • (2025) Challenge Classics, CC72017 (More Than Muses – Female Creative Power in the Golden Age, Tabea Schwartz & Vernon Consort)

  • (2025) Passacaille, PAS1158 (J. S. Bach: Solo Cantatas for Alto – Armenian Chants, Seda Amir-Karayan, Camerata Vivaldiana, Fritz Krämer)

  • (2022) Querstand / Verlagsgruppe Kamprad, VKJK 2208 (Georg Philipp Telemann: Essercizii Musici, Ensemble La Visione, 4 CDs)

 

ACHIEVEMENTS (the most important from the last 4 years)

  • (2024) Neuburg an der Donau, Biagio-Marini-Wettbewerb (1st prize, Ensemble Auditu Dignum)

  • (2024) Basel, Ensemblewettbewerb der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (1st prize, The Levée)

  • (2023) Basel, Preis der Marchal-Stiftung für Masterrezital und Masterarbeit

 

AFFILIATIONS

  • (2025-) Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Lecturer in Lute Instruments)

  • (2024-) Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Harpsichord Accompanist)

  • (2023-) Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Lute and Harpsichord Accompanist)

  • (2021-)Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Musikwissenschaftliches Institut (Research Associate)

  • (2020-2022) Musikakademie der Stadt Kassel (Lecturer in Harpsichord and Historically Informed Performance Practice)

  • (2018-2024) Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (predavatelj za teorbo in basso continuo) Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Lecturer in Theorbo and Basso Continuo)

  • (2015-) Samostojni glasbenik Freelance Musician

 

COLLABORATIONS (the most important from the last 4 years)

  • (2026) Kammerorchester Basel, Main Barockorchester, Accademia degli Stravaganti

  • (2025) Main Barockorchester, Ensemble Ad Fontes Basel, Accademia degli Stravaganti

  • (2024) Barucco Consort Wien, Main Barockorchester, Ensemble Ad Fontes Basel, Capricornus Consort Basel, Accademia degli Stravaganti

  • (2023) Bachstiftung St. Gallen, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, Main Barockorchester, Ensemble Ad Fontes Basel, Capricornus Consort Basel, Accademia degli Stravaganti

  • (2022) Barucco Consort Wien, Main Barockorchester, Capricornus Consort Basel, Accademia degli Stravaganti

 

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