Vita
While Baroque music was flourishing in 18th-century Paris, seven small islands in Canada's icy St. Lawrence River were the destination of French emigrants to the New World. Sept-Iles, as the place is still called today, is where their descendant, flutist Annie Laflamme, was born 250 years later. As a Québécoise, she feels as close to the language of Old France as she does to the music of the Old World as an artist. After studying the flute in Montreal, Annie Laflamme was drawn back to the music metropolis of Vienna. Here she discovered the New World of Early Music, which she perfected her studies of at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Today, Annie Laflamme lives in Germany as a specialist in historical flutes of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. She works with renowned ensembles such as Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski - France), Musicaeterna / Utopia (Teodor Currentzis), Concentus Musicus Wien (Austria), Collegium 1704 (Vaclav Luks – Czechia), Oh! Orkiestra (Poland). Her concert tours as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, as well as her work as a passionate teacher, have taken her throughout Europe, America and Asia. Numerous CD recordings and radio broadcasts testify to her artistic activity.