"Element of Prime" is an Austrian five-part recorder consort consisting of Carin van Heerden, Magdalena Rath, Domenika Thanner, Veronika Traxler and Michaela Vaught. The diversity of the recorder family and the resonanceof the instruments when played in a consort represents the crowning glory ("prime") of music-making for the five musicians. They share a fervent love of the “Flaute dolce” and founded the ensemble in 2015 at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Since then, the ensemble has performed at the Brucknerhaus in Linz, Porgy & Bess Vienna, the Danube Festival in Strudengau and has appeared on Austrian national radio (Ö1). In 2019/2020 Element of Prime toured Austria as part of the Jeunesse education programme. The ensemble will also tour South Africa in February 2024. In their concert programmes they combine Renaissance music with contemporary works, often with close collaboration with these composers.
Upcoming concerts
14 and 15 Feb. 2024
Symposium Odeion School of Music
Bloemfontein
South Africa
15 Feb. 2024, 17.00: Wicked Tongues
Odeion School of Music
Bloemfontein
South Africa
17 Feb. 2024
Cape Town Recorder Symposium
South Africa
17 Feb. 2024, 18.00: Most delicate Musicke
with the Cape Choral Academy
Moederkerk
Stellenbosch
South Africa
18 Feb. 2024, 18.00: Nightwatch
Anglican Church
Swellendam
South Africa
21 Feb. 2024, 19.00: Nightwatch
with the Lutesong Consort
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church
Cape Town
South Africa
23 Feb. 2024
Workshop at the Jan Celliers Primary School
Johannesburg
South Africa
23 Feb. 2024, 17.00: Wicked Tongues
Art Gallery Barbara Pretorius
Johannesburg
South Africa
20.4.2024, 17.00: Most delicate Musicke
Bildungshaus Schloss Puchberg
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