“Fine works demonstrating even better playing by the Ensemble Diderot. Both fiddles play with persuasive mastery, but the finest moments arrive with the ravishing transverse flute playing of Kristen Huebner.”
- AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
Kristen Huebner, flute / Johannes Pramsohler & Roldán Bernabé, violins Gulrim Choi, cello / Philippe Grisvard, harpsichord
by: Audax Records
“Fine works demonstrating even better playing by the Ensemble Diderot. Both fiddles play with persuasive mastery, but the finest moments arrive with the ravishing transverse flute playing of Kristen Huebner.”
Bio
Originally from the United States, Kristen Huebner now bases her musical life in the Netherlands and Europe. Kristen received her first Bachelors Degree in Music Performance from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis studying with Immanuel Davis. After hopping the pond to the Netherlands in 2009, she has since become an avid specialist on the baroque flute, holding both Bachelors and Masters Diplomas from the Utrecht Conservatory (BM) and The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (MM), where she studied with Wilbert Hazelzet and Kate Clark. Kristen currently tours Europe with Ton Koopman’s Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir and has collaborated alongside members of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under Frans Brüggen. Performances for Radio France with L’Orchestre Français des Jeunes led to further collaboration with Johannes Pramsohler’s Ensemble Diderot , including performances at festivals such as Musikfest Erzgebirge, Goethe Institut Paris, and Bach Biennale Weimar. In addition Kristen appears on the ensemble’s 2016 CD recording of the Mondonville Trio Sonatas on Audax Records. Collaborations with several European historically-informed ensembles have included performances at Wigmore Hall, Bachfest Leipzig, Valletta International Baroque Festival, and the Utrecht Early Music Festival,
Kristen’s research on Empfindsamkeit in the chamber music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has been adapted into an article for the online journal Music & Practice, published in 2015. Kristen joined the teaching team at the 2022 Zutphen Summer Academy, where she led the traverso masterclass. Kristen is currently exploring the repertoire for flute and clavichord with Greek clavichordist Alex Mastichiadis. Their debut recording is set to release in the fall of 2025. Alongside a busy performance schedule, Kristen also enjoys a bustling private teaching practice for both historical and modern flutes in Utrecht, NL.
Publications
In addition to playing music, I’m also deeply invested in writing about it. Check out my interview for the Traverso Practice Net!
My Masters research on the chamber music of the Empfindsamkeit was published by the online peer-reviewed journal ‘Music and Practice’… Read it here!
Press
Press for Ensemble Diderot’s Mondonville CD and Concerts:
“The finest moments of this recording arrive with the transverse flute playing of Kristen Huebner…Her tone on the instrument is ravishing and provides more vivid contrast in the melodic voices.”
-Fritz Balwit (December 18, 2016)
Ensemble Diderot CD Review on Audiophile Audition“The Ensemble Diderot perform with historical awareness and enthusiasm. Their commitment to this music, receiving its first recording, is persuasive and their flawless precision is compelling.”
-Stephen Greenbank
Ensemble Diderot CD Review on Music Web International
Praise for Ensemble Diderot Concerts, December 2016:
“Betörend elegant in den federleicht und höchst beweglich dahingeträllerten Vogelstimmenimitationen und ausdrucksreich und gefühlvoll in den lyrischen Passagen.”
-Hans Jürgen Kugler (December 6, 2016)
Bad Krozingen Concert Review in Badischen Zeitung“Das Concerto à 4 parties in a-Moll von Michel Blavet glänzte durch seinen tänzerischen Auftakt. In den heiter und unbeschwert aufspielenden Flötenpassagen brillierte Kristen Huebner in spannungsreichen Improvisationen über tiefen Cello-Liegetönen. Berührend der langsame Mittelsatz als innig-sinnliches Duett von Flöte und Violine in vollkommener Harmonie, die durch einen stürmisch wie ein Sommergewitter hereinbrechenden Finalsatz virtuos zu Ende geführt wird.”
-Hans Jürgen Kugler (December 6, 2016)
Bad Krozingen Concert Review in Badischen Zeitung“La sonate en trio op. 2 n°5 de Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville ouvre le répertoire à la flûte chaude et envoûtante de Kristen Huebner.”
-Bertrand Ferrier (December 17, 2016)
Concert Review of Ensemble Diderot Paris CD Release Concert
3 August, 2024: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Festival Itinéraire Baroque
Festival Itinéraire Baroque – Eglise de Saint-Astier
4 August – 17:00
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Elisabeth Breuer – soprano
Sophia Faltas – alto
Tilman Lichdi – tenor
Klaus Mertens – bass
Ton Koopman – conductor
J.S. Bach
Johannes-Passion
21 September, 2024: Concerto Ispirato
Concerto Ispirato
Iris Maron, concertmaster
L.van Beethoven: Mass in C major op.86,
W.A. Mozart: Symphony in G minor KV 550
Margarethenkantorei, Südstadtkantorei Hannover and Concerto Ispirato
Christian Windhorst and Oliver Kluge, conductor
Margarethenkirche, Gehrden
18:00
More info HERE!
22 September, 2024: Concerto Ispirato
Concerto Ispirato
Iris Maron, concertmaster
L.van Beethoven: Mass in C major op.86,
W.A. Mozart: Symphony in G minor KV 550
Margarethenkantorei, Südstadtkantorei Hannover and Concerto Ispirato
Christian Windhorst and Oliver Kluge, conductor
Pauluskirche, Hannover
18:00
More info HERE!
13 October, 2024: Chamber Music with Bach Leusden
Bach Leusden
An afternoon of chamber music from Bach & his contemporaries
J.S. Bach: Cantata 182
Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
Sunday 13 October, 16.00
The church is open from 15.30
Location: St. Jozefkerk Hamersveldseweg 51, Leusden
Free entrance
More info HERE!
10 November, 2024: Vredeborch Trio, Houten, NL
Foyerconcert: Versailles – Music from the Court of Louis XIV
Vredeborch Ensemble
Sunday, 10 november
15:30u
Imagine yourself musically at the court of Versailles. With visual reports and introductions to painting, architecture and backgrounds. The Vredeborch Ensemble consists of Jaël Vuijk on baroque violin, Kristen Huebner on traverso and Dick Duijst on chest organ. Dick Duijst also provides the visual reports and introductions. A concert in the series La Douce France – three musical trips to France.
The series of concerts takes place in the theater foyer on three Sunday afternoons: November 10, February 16 and March 16. Tickets can be purchased separately for each concert via Aan de Slinger.
29 November, 2024: Soloists of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Wigmore Hall London, UK
TON KOOPMAN 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Soloists of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman conductor, harpsichord
Wigmore Hall
London, UK
Friday, 29 November, 2024
19:30
Catherine Manson VIOLIN
Reine-Marie Verhagen RECORDER
Kristen Huebner TRAVERSO FLUTE
Antoine Torunczyk OBOE
Wouter Verschuren BASSOON
Robert Smith CELLO, GAMBA
Mischa Schouw TOUR MANAGER
Ton Koopman CONDUCTOR, HARPSICHORD
Overview
Ton Koopman founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in 1979, and since then the group of internationally renowned Baroque specialists has brought new life to a variety of repertoire. Its programme today brings together concertos by the German Georg Philipp Telemann.
Info and tickets can be found HIER!
13 December, 2024: Dutch Baroque, Middelburg
Dutch Baroque – Christmas Program, ‘Te Deum’
Friday, December 13, 2024
Middelburg
19:30
Program:
Te Deum H. 146 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Concerto grosso in C major, Op. 3 No. 12 – Francesco Manfredini (1684-1762)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BuxWV 98 – Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Organ Concerto No. 13 in F Major HWV 295 “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” – Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Magnificat BWV 243 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
14 December, 2024: Dutch Baroque, Zwijndrecht
Dutch Baroque – Christmas Program, ‘Te Deum’
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Zwijndrecht
19:30
Program:
Te Deum H. 146 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Concerto grosso in C major, Op. 3 No. 12 – Francesco Manfredini (1684-1762)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BuxWV 98 – Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Organ Concerto No. 13 in F Major HWV 295 “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” – Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Magnificat BWV 243 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
19-22 December, 2024: Christmas Oratorio, Hanover, DE
J.S. Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorio
Hanover, Germany
Info T.B.D.
15 January, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Festival International de Música de Canarias
Festival International de Música de Canarias
Gran Canaria (ES)
J.S. Bach: Mathew Passion
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Tilman Lichdi – Evangelist
Peter Harvey – Christ
Elisabeth Breuer – soprano
Maarten Engeltjes – altus
Kieran White – tenor
Klaus Mertens – bass
Ton Koopman – organ & conductor
16 January, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Festival International de Música de Canarias
Festival International de Música de Canarias
Tenerife (ES)
J.S. Bach: Mathew Passion
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Tilman Lichdi – Evangelist
Peter Harvey – Christ
Elisabeth Breuer – soprano
Maarten Engeltjes – altus
Kieran White – tenor
Klaus Mertens – bass
Ton Koopman – organ & conductor
28 February, 2024: Vredeborch Trio
Vredeborch Trio
Kristen Huebner, Traverso
Jael Vuick, Violin
Dick Duijst, Organ
Join us for this journey spanning three generations of music history. We will start the series off with our “Baroque & Rococco” program.
More information HERE!
28 March, 2025: Dutch Baroque, Ede
Die Große Passion – Fasch en Bach
Vrijdag 28 maart 2025
Oude Kerk, Ede
Dutch Baroque Orchestra
Dutch Baroque Vocal Consort
Ai Horton – sopraan
Oscar Verhaar – altus
Pablo Gregorian – tenor
Jaap van der Wel – bas
Gerard de Wit dirigent en organist
Programma
Passio Jesu Christi (F. 1) – Johann Friedrich Fasch
Oster-Oratorium (BWV 249) – Johann Sebastian Bach
Pauze
Himmelfahrtsoratorium (BWV 11) – Johann Sebastian Bach
29 March, 2025: Dutch Baroque, Zwijndrecht
Die Große Passion – Fasch en Bach
Zaterdag 29 maart 2025
Oude Kerk, Zwijndrecht
Dutch Baroque Orchestra
Dutch Baroque Vocal Consort
Ai Horton – sopraan
Oscar Verhaar – altus
Pablo Gregorian – tenor
Jaap van der Wel – bas
Gerard de Wit dirigent en organist
Programma
Passio Jesu Christi (F. 1) – Johann Friedrich Fasch
Oster-Oratorium (BWV 249) – Johann Sebastian Bach
Pauze
Himmelfahrtsoratorium (BWV 11) – Johann Sebastian Bach
6 April, 2025: Bach’s St. John Passion
6 April, 2025: Bach’s St. John Passion
Heereveen
Info TBD
18 April, 2025: Bach’s St. John Passion
18 April, 2025: Bach’s St. John Passion
La Sorpresa
Eersel
Info TBD
15 June, 2025: Bach Ensemble Hannover (DE)
15 June, 2025: Bach Ensemble Hannover
Pauluskirche, Hannover (DE)
J.S. Bach, Messe in A-Dur
J.S. Bach, Solokantate BWV 209, ‘Non sa che sia dolore’
19 June, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Bachfest Leipzig, (DE)
19 June, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Bachfest Leipzig (DE)
Bach Cantatas
22 June, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Bachfest Leipzig (DE)
22 June, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Bachfest Leipzig (DE)
J.S. Bach, B Minor Mass
23 June, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (DE),
23 June, 2025: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (DE)
J.S. Bach Cantatas
I’m passionate about teaching the historical and modern flutes and exploring genres both close to my heart and stretching outside my comfort zone.
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