Dorothea Winter


Dorothea Angelika Winter was a German recorder player and recorder teacher. She taught recorder at the Conservatory of Zwolle and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She was a founder and a member of Trio Dolce. John Cage wrote "Three" for Trio Dolce.

Biography

Dorothea Winter was born in Ahrensburg on November 27, 1949. After her graduation at Stormarnschule in 1968 she studied recorder with Ferdinand Conrad in Hannover. While being a recorder student in Germany she played many concerts in Europe under the pseudonym of Theodora Sommer.
She moved to Holland, where she studied recorder with Jeanette van Wingerden and Frans Brüggen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
She obtained her Degree in Performance with honors and won several prizes at the International Competition for Woodwinds at the Early Music Festival in Bruges.
In 1986 she founded, together with recorder players Christine Brelowski and , Trio Dolce, a recorder trio specialized in contemporary recorder music. Composers who wrote music for Trio Dolce include: , Ivo van Emmerik, John Cage, Ron Ford, Floris van Manen, and Walter Zimmermann.
Three, by John Cage, is a piece for three recorder players using sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, sopranino, soprano, alto, basset, tenor, bass, and soprano, alto, basset, tenor, double bass. It was first performed by Trio Dolce on July 27, 1990, at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt.
Dorothea was also a member of
Dorothea was a recorder teacher at the Conservatory of Zwolle, the Conservatory of Maastricht and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

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