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Antoinette Lohmann (Amsterdam, 1969) studied the violin, the viola and the
baroque violin at the Amserdam Conservatory.
Antoinette has always been active in varied musical areas and her experience
includes Argentinian tango, salon music, folk music and contemporary music.
As a freelance player, she has performed and recorded with many orchestras and
ensembles over the years. Currently her repertoire stretches from the early
seventeenth century to the 21st century, but always on period instruments. She
has a special interest in unusual instruments such as the viola d' amore, the
tenor violin and the viola pomposa and exploring their repertoire. Since a few
years she's also been an advocate of performing contemporary compositions for
early instruments.
In recent years she has focussed primarily on chamber music, with special
emphasis on Dutch repertory. She recorded the complete sonatas for piano and
violin by Joseph Martin Kraus and Margarethe Danzi, bassoon quartets of Franz
Danzi en Krommer, chamber music of Belle van Zuylen (Isabelle de Charrière)
and Dutch music of the early baroque.
In 2008 Antoinette founded her own group, Furor Musicus. Several recordings
of this group were released since; transcriptions of works by J.S.Bach, among
them Antoinette's reconstruction of a Bach viola concerto and an early version
of the b minor suite for strings, and the violin sonatas opus 1 & 2 by the
dutch baroque composer Jacob Nozeman. A recording with seventeenth century
unknown German repertoire is about to be launched (Globe).
Antoinette teaches principal study Baroque violin, viola and historical
documentation at the Utrecht Conservatorium and is the principal teacher of
the Historical Performance Department as well. Since 2008 she has been
visiting South-Africa regularly to give concerts and, most of all, to teach in
order to support the development of a historical performance movement.
