Eva Leonie Fegers - Recorder, Vocals & Renaissance-Traverso | Art Direction

Eva Leonie Fegers, born in 1987 in Mönchengladbach (GER), she discovered her passion for music very early: She received her first recorder lessons at the age of five. Eva Leonie Fegers studied recorder and music education with Dorothee Oberlinger, Mozarteum, Salzburg, Bart Coen and Bart Spanhove, LUCA School of Arts, Leuven and Carsten Eckert, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. In addition, she also studied classical singing with Otto Rastbichler and Traverso with Gertraud Wimmer. She graduated all her studies with distinction.

Eva Leonie Fegers has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the first prize at the Moeck/SRP Solo Recorder Playing Competition in 2011 and the third prize along with a ‘Förderpreis’ at the 15th International Music Competition OSAKA. In addition, she has been supported by the Nordrheinwestfälischen Sparkassen, the Senioren-Union NRW, the Manfred Vetter-Stiftung, and has received the Zonta Musikpreis. She is a member of the Austrian broadcaster Ö1’s young talent scheme.

Eva Leonie Fegers has a strong commitment to chamber music and is a member of several early and contemporary music ensembles. In addition to opia, she is a member of various ensembles for early music, contemporary music and soundperformance, including Organic Opera, Duo F/F and Meta & Magnet.

She has performed with ensembles such as the Hofkapelle Münich, Ensemble 1700, La Folia Barockorchester, Synchron Stage Orchestra and the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich.

In addition, she gave concerts at numerous festivals, for instance the Porto Frank Fest (UKR), Festival Grafenegg (AUT), Wien Modern (AUT), Festival for Early Music Knechtsteden (GER), Bach-Festival Arnstadt (GER) and the Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival (UK). She has performed live at the German and Austrian radio stations Bayrischer Rundfunk and Ö1.

Eva Leonie Fegers has taken part in masterclasses with, amongst others, Walter van Hauwe, Han Tol, Paul Leenhouts, Lorenzo Cavasanti, Kees Boeke, Matthias Weilenmann, Reinhard Goebel and Trevor Pinnock.

Since WS 2022/23 Eva Leonie Fegers is teaching recorder at the University of Music Burgenland.