Born in Hilden in 1966; Evelin Degen is a flautist and university teacher with a focus on contemporary music. She studied at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen with André Sebald and Matthias Rütters. Since 1997 she has taught at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, which awarded her the title of honorary professor in 2011; from 1999 to 2005 she also taught at the Universität Essen. As a soloist she has given the first performances of numerous works dedicated to her and has appeared at festivals in Europe, America and Asia. She is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary PART-Ensemble, belonged to the E-MEX Ensemble from 2002 and directed it until 2023, and develops repertoire for flute and organ with the organist Matthias Geuting. She was a founding member of the Jeunesses Musicales NRW, of which she was president from 2008 to 2017, and of the Netzwerk Flöte lehren in NRW founded in 2018. She plays the flute on the Cybele album Juan Allende-Blin and the Ensemble (2016).
Evelin Degen
Flute
