Vita
Katharina Andres has been appointed Professor of Historical Oboe Instruments at the University of the Arts Bremen in 2025.
She developed her interest in Early Music at an early age at Saarbrücken Music School through ensemble lessons with Bernhard Stilz, where she became acquainted with the music and instruments of the 16th and 17th centuries: recorder, crumhorn, shawm, pommer and dulcian. At the age of twelve, she received her first baroque oboe lessons from Elsa Frank.
She completed her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Conrad Steinmann and Katharina Arfken with two diploma concerts: in 2005 with a focus on Baroque (recorder and baroque oboe) and in 2006 with a focus on Renaissance (recorder, shawm, pommer and dulcian). Since then, she has also been extensively involved with the classical and romantic repertoire and instruments.
Since 2013, Prof. Katharina Andres has been principal oboist with the Prague orchestra Collegium 1704 under the direction of Václav Luks, and since 2020 she has been teaching Historical Oboe at the HfMDK Frankfurt am Main.