Xenia Löffler
Oboe
Xenia Löffler has dedicated herself to exploring the fascinatingly varied oboe repertoire from its beginnings to the 19th century.
She delights her audience with new discoveries, which she presents in concerts and productions.
Her stylistically confident feel for the music, her vital playing style and her unmistakable sound make Xenia Löffler one of the leading international interpreters of the historical oboe.
Immediately following her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, she was appointed solo oboist by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and has since been a permanent member of this top ensemble, with whom she regularly performs as a soloist in the most renowned concert halls around the world.
Xenia Löffler is fascinated by the different possibilities of the oboe, in the orchestra, as a soloist or chamber music partner with outstanding colleagues, and she has recorded numerous CDs on which she can be heard in these diverse roles.
In addition to AKAMUS, the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle and numerous other ensembles with which Xenia Löffler is associated have been regular partners in these recordings since the beginning. The many years of making music together with the Amphion Wind Octet, which she co-founded, and her participation in Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage were particularly formative.
Xenia Löffler is particularly keen to pass on her experience to the younger generation of oboists. She is regularly invited by international music academies and gives masterclasses.
She has been artistic director of the Neuburg an der Donau Summer Academy since 2018. Xenia Löffler holds a professorship for historical oboes at the Berlin University of the Arts.
