Almut Frenzel-Riehl
Violin
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Almut Frenzel-Riehl studied at the universities for music in Cologne with Prof. Gerhard Peters and Berlin with Prof. Antje Weithaas. She passed her concert exams, the culmination of her post-graduate studies, with Prof. Sebastian Hamann, a former leader of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. Almut Frenzel-Riehl was deputy leader of the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra and played with the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlin before she joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2004. She still works as a deputy leader and leader of chamber orchestras including the Neue Orchester Cologne, Camerata Frankfurt and the Dresden Festival Orchestra, which plays on early instruments. After studying (baroque violin with Brian Dean at the University for Music in Lucerne) she is now equally at home with a baroque violin as a modern instrument and appears in concert with groups including the Handel Solists and Orphelia String Quartet. Being in demand as a teacher rounds her artistic life off: Almut Frenzel-Riehl teaches members of various youth orchestras and is a coach for groups of violinists including one at the State Theatre in Gießen and runs courses for Appassionato in Florence. She is also a fully qualified systemic coach.