smooth as melted chocolate
Classic CD

I can see her bow
flying across the strings: the playing of the passagework is reminiscent of a
virtuoso violinist
Viola da Gamba Mitteilungen, Switzerland

The Rolls-Royce of viol players
Pete McCarthy, double bass
(check out Pete's music festival:
Music in the Village)

Gramophone Award (Editor's Choice) Winner 2008 & Diapason d'Or

Susanne Heinrich studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory of Nuremberg, and at the Frankfurt State Academy of Music, where she passed her recital diploma with the highest distinction. She was then granted the prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to study with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She has performed and recorded with many leading period-instrument ensembles of Europe, and has made over 15 recordings with Charivari Agréable. Susanne has been a member of the Palladian Ensemble (the Palladians from 2007) since 1994 and she has written for various journals, including The Consort, and Chelys. Sought after as a teacher, her last position was Professor for Viols and Violone at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London; Susanne is now devoting some of her time to the chief editorship of Charivari Agréable Publications. The revised New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians refers to her as one of the 'leading players' of this generation. Her recording of solo viol music by Carl Friedrich Abel won the Editor's Choice Gramophone Award in 2008 and a Diapason d'Or.

Second hand music for sale!

Photo taken by Stefan Schweiger