Marie Luise Werneburg, Sebastian Knebel, Anne Freitag, Margret Baumgartl, Alma Stolte
Biography Marie Luise Werneburg, Sebastian Knebel, Anne Freitag, Margret Baumgartl, Alma Stolte
Marie Luise Werneburg
grew up in a Dresden rectory full of art, music, and literature.
Even during her church music and vocal studies in Dresden and Bremen, she specialized in the music of the 17th and 18th centuries, which provided an expression of her passion and a home for her voice. The works of Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach represent her musical center and constant challenge.
Marie Luise performs worldwide as a soloist, working with the Bach Foundation St. Gallen/Ruedi Lutz, the Constellation Choir/Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging/Shunske Sato, the Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki, Musica fiata/Roland Wilson, Continuu-m/Elina Albach, and the Weser Renaissance/Manfred Cordes.
Her growing discography also includes her own song projects; in 2021, for example, she recorded songs by the Dresden composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann for cpo with the Hammer pianist Sebastian Knebel.
Marie Luise lives in Prignitz with her husband and three children. She loves the designs of William Morris, the novels of Haruki Murakami, and "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" by John Singer Sargent.
Sebastian Knebel
first completed an apprenticeship as an organ builder. After studying church music in Dresden, he continued his education at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar and the Folkwang University of Music in Essen.
Extensive solo activities have made Sebastian Knebel known as a harpsichordist, organist, and fortepiano player.
Concert tours regularly take him to other European countries, the USA, and Mexico. Sebastian Knebel regularly works as organist and harpsichordist with the Collegium Marianum Prague, the Dresden Baro Orchestra, and the Telemann Collegium Michaelstein.
During the 2007/8 season, Sebastian Knebel served for a year as guest organist at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas, and with the Houston Bach Society.
In addition to his active artistic activities, he was a member of the executive committee of the "Gottfried Silbermann Society" in Freiberg for many years and served as one of the artistic directors of the renowned Mexican Baroque festival, the Festival de Musica Barocca de San Miguel Allende, whose festival orchestra he also conducted. On the board of the "Dresdner Hofmusik" association, he is committed, among other things, to establishing the partially reconstructed Dresden Palace Chapel as a concert venue.
Sebastian Knebel holds a teaching position at the "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden Academy of Music and the State High School for Music.
Margret Baumgartl
Margret Baumgartl completed her violin studies in Dresden with Günter Friedrich and in Munich with Urs Stiehler.
Since then, she has devoted herself to authentic performance practice on historical instruments and has worked with, among others, René Jacobs, Frieder Bernius, Jos van Immerseel, and Hans-Christoph Rademann. Her most important teacher and chamber music partner in the field of early music was Reinhard Goebel, with whom she gave concerts in Europe, the USA, and Canada from 2002 to 2006 as a member of Musica Antiqua Köln and produced a television film about Bach's The Art of Fugue.
Margret Baumgartl has been concertmaster of the Dresden Baroque Orchestra since 2004.
Alma Stolte
is a cellist on historical instruments and a gamba player, lives in Dresden, and travels throughout Europe as a chamber music partner and continuo player. She studied in Dresden, Amsterdam, and Berlin and learned from a wide variety of musicians such as Viola de Hoog, Lea Rahel Bader, Ludger Rémy, Matthias Bräutigam, Kristin von der Goltz, Jonathan Pesek, Hans-Christoph Rademann, and Xenia Löffler. Her ensemble tiefsaits, with which she performs original literature and arrangements for three baroque cellos and gambas, has existed since 2020, linking them to socio-cultural themes such as climate protection, female figures in history, and insomnia (the ensemble's debut album, 'À Tre', was released in 2024).
Alma Stolte is a cellist with the Dresden Baroque Orchestra and also regularly performs with renowned ensembles such as the lautten compagney Berlin, AKAMUS, Le Concert Lorrain, Ælbgut, and the Dresden Kreuzchor. She also explores new musical directions for the cello with her band "NOUK" in a unique fusion of jazz, pop, and chamber music (her debut album, "Figures Afloat," was released in 2022). As a teacher, the cellist is also committed to music education for children and adults, from individual lessons to ensemble coaching and school projects.
