Xenia Löffler

Xenia Löffler, born in Erlangen, Germany and began her musical education on the recorder. After her school examinations she studied recorder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Conrad Steinmann, receiving a soloist diploma in 1997. At the same time she started playing the baroque and classical oboe in the class of Katharina Arfken, receiving a soloist diploma "with distinction" in 1999. She completed her oboe studies with Ku Ebbinge at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands. Xenia Löffler is the winner of numerous prizes at national and international music competitions, and in 1995 was a member of the European Baroque Orchestra. In 1996 she founded the Amphion Wind Octet Basel together with other musicians who had met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum. During the following years she frequently appeared as a soloist with numerous well-known European ensembles for ancient music. In the year 2000 she was also invited by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the well-known "Bach Cantata Pilgrimage," where she played principal oboe for numerous concerts in Europe and in the USA. Xenia Löffler is currently the solo oboist of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.