Norbert Rodenkirchen

Norbert Rodenkirchen, who has worked regularly with Sequentia since 1995, was born in Cologne, where he studied both modern and baroque flute at the Hochschule für Musik. He is in demand as a performer and composer in the realms of new music, early music, theater and film music. Mr. Rodenkirchen is especially interested in the shared characteristics of much contemporary music with music from the Middle Ages. He has been musical director of theater productions at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the Schauspiel Wuppertal and Stadttheater Bremen, has composed works for Radio Bremen and the West German Radio, and has appeared internationally as a flautist and recording artist. In 1998 he co-founded the early music ensemble Diphona. His first solo CD, Tibia ex Tempore, was released on the Marc Aurel Edition label in 2001 (www.aurel.de).