The recorder player and interdisciplinary artist Alina Loewenich dedicates herself as a musician, performer and speaker to a wide variety of epochs, genres and styles. She is a founding member and artistic director of the ensemble opia, which focuses on the lively, historical interpretation of music from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance and early Baroque. She also works closely with young composers and has been involved in several world premieres. She creates interdisciplinary concert formats with experimental, improvised and contemporary music that combine different art forms such as music, live visuals and language. Since 2022, she has been a member of the ensemble at Theater Marabu in the Brotfabrik in Bonn, where she appears on stage as a musician and performer in various pieces.
She studied concert recorder, instrumental pedagogy and elementary music pedagogy at the Cologne University of Music and Dance from 2010 to 2015 and completed her diploma in concert recorder at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 2015 to 2019. In spring 2022 she received a Master of Music in the interpretation of contemporary music at the Cologne University of Music and Dance.
Alina Loewenich has won prizes at international competitions and was a scholarship holder of the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation in 2014. She has performed at renowned festivals such as the Festwochen der Alten Musik Innsbruck, the Cologne Early Music Festival, the Shakespeare Festival Neuss, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, the Grafenegg Festival and others. She has performed live on the radio station WDR 3 in the program »Tonart« and has taken part in radio productions by Deutschlandfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Ö1.
Alina Loewenich is a lecturer for recorder, chamber music and recorder ensemble at the Brühl Art and Music School, where she can share her love of early and contemporary music.