About Me
Multidisciplinary Artist & Musician specialised in Early Music
Concertist, Teacher, Doctor in Music,
Viewpoints for professional dancers and body awareness for musicians
and travelling through the world.
Lobke Sprenkeling is the recorder teacher at the Royal Madrid Conservatory, where she also teaches Historical Ornamentation and Improvisation.
As a recorder player, she has performed with Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Les Talens Lyriques, la Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, La Ritirata, Concerto 1700, Ímpetus Ensemble, La Capella de Ministrers, Harmonia del Parnàs, La Academia de los Nocturnos etc. She has given classes in Holland, Estonia, Spain, USA and Mexico.
As a multidisciplinary artist, she has created her own theatrical works Incipit (2015, 2018) and Lost (2017), has collaborated in the theater work Je Suis Toi (2018), was accepted into Cirque du Soleil as a vocalist/recorder player, has taught Viewpoints at several schools and conservatories in the USA and Mexico, and is the composer of the soundtrack of the short dance film Cocito (2023).
Education
Lobke Sprenkeling obtained her Bachelor of Music and Master's Degree in Recorder (Early Music) and Experimental Music Theatre at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Utrecht Conservatory. In 2003, she received a national scholarship from the national Prins Bernhard Culture Fund in order to study Medieval music with Pedro Memelsdorff at the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) in Barcelona.
In 2016-2017, after obtaining her Doctorate in Music, she studied Theatre Making and Stage Direction at Carlos III University and Yale Summer Program, and took courses with SITI Company New York (Suzuki, Viewpoints techniques), choreographer Antonio Ruz and dramaturg Roland Schimmelpfennig. She has studied singing with Ina Boonen, Lennaert Roos, Astrid Crone, Paul Phoenix, Raquel Andueza and David Mason. She has also taken ballet and contemp classes for several years.
Teacher
Lobke has been teaching the recorder and Early Music for over 20 years. She was the recorder teacher at the Preparatory Conservatory of Valencia until 2016, and has been a guest teacher at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla-La Mancha. In 2014 she was a guest teacher at the Summer Course of ERTA Estonia. Since 2017 she has been the recorder teacher at Madrid Royal Conservatory, where she's also taught Renaissance consort, chamber music and Improvisation & Ornamentation in the Early Music Department. In 2023 she was a guest teacher for Pierre Hamon’s class at the CNSMD (Lyon, France) within the Erasmus teacher mobility program. She teaches Viewpoints to professional dancers and body awareness to musicians.
Concertist
She has performed with several outstanding Early Music ensembles and orchestras, such as: Les Talens Lyriques, the Ambronay Baroque Orchestra, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, La Ritirata, Concerto 1700, Ímpetus Ensemble, Capella de Ministrers, Harmonia del Parnàs, La Academia de los Nocturnos, Capella Saetabis etc. She has collaborated in several CD recordings and has performed throughout Europe. She is also the co-founder of the Early Music Ensemble Musickes Delight, and has recorded the disc “Pulchra Es” with harpsichordist and organist Jorge López-Escribano, which was well-received by critics and audience.
Doctor in Music
Lobke obtained her Doctorate in Music with grade 9.2 out of 10 cum laude, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in 2016, with her artistic research on the meeting point between Early Music and Performance Art. This year she was invited to give a conference at the I International Congress on Investigation and Creation in Madrid.
WRITER
Lobke is a regular author for American Recorder Society magazine, and has written several articles for Windkanal magazine (Germany), The Recorder Magazine (Great-Britain), and Blokfluitist (The Netherlands).
Multidisciplinary Artist
She has also been involved in multidisciplinary theatre from a musical perspective. She performed her experimental Music Theatre pieces Incipit (2015, 2018) and Lost (2017) in different theatres in Valencia, Sevilla and Madrid. She has been part of the multidisciplinary collective Investro, and composed the soundscape piece Collywobbles for the choreographer and dancer Maria Chiara de' Nobili. She was composer and performer for the postdramatic theatre piece Je Suis Toi which had its première in Rabat (Morocco) in 2018. Another project, Dancing in the Desert, has been the beginning of an exploration of the relationship between natural spaces and the body. She is also the composer of the soundtrack of the short dance film Cocito (2023).
Lobke speaks several languages: Dutch (native speaker), English (C2 Proficiency by Cambridge), Spanish (C2 DELE), Catalán/Valencia (C1 Grau Mitjà), French (C1) and German (C1), with elementary fluency in Portuguese and Italian.
Would you like to book me?
- Concerts
- Masterclasses, Courses, Classes
- Speaking Engagements.
- Collaborations
reviews
El Mundo (26 de marzo de 2010) – Palau de la Música
Valencia. Palau de la Música. Capella Saetabis. Director: Rodrigo Madrid.
“si bien habría que destacar la sobresaliente actuación de la joven Lobke Sprenkeling con el viento”
----- “we should underline the outstanding performance of the young Lobke Sprenkeling with her wind instruments”
Scherzo and El Levante (7 de junio de 2010)
Valencia. Palau de la Música. Capella Saetabis. Director: Rodrigo Madrid.
“pero el tenor Alberto Guardiola y la flautista Lobke Sprenkeling tuvieron intervenciones particularmente encomiables”
---------“but the tenor Alberto Guardiola and the recorder player Lobke Sprenkeling had interventions which were especially commendable”
El Mundo (7 de junio de 2010)
Valencia. Palau de la Música. Capella Saetabis. Director: Rodrigo Madrid.
“Había gran expectación por escuchar las flautas de Lobke Sprenkeling. Se lució en la segunda parte, como los grandes cantantes. Esta vez, ella renunció a sus flautas en fa, recreando el discurso con sus maravillosas flautas en do, soprano y tenor.”
--------“There was great expectation for hearing the recorders of Lobke Sprenkeling. She was showcased in the second part, like the great singers. This time, she renounced her recorders in fa, recreating the discourse with her wonderful recorders in do, soprano and tenor.”
Forum Clásico (marzo 2018), Simón Andueza.
Madrid. XXVIII Festival Internacional de Arte Sacro. La Ritirata. Director: Josetxu Obregón.
“El primero de los conciertos, titulado Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae (Lamentaciones del profeta Jeremías) fue un colorista y ameno concierto, con un ensemble fastuoso, con las flautas y violines cálidos, virtuosos y bellísimos. (…) El concierto terminó rindiendo homenaje a Marc-Antoine Charpentier, (...) con ricos colores de las flautas y del continuo.”
------- “The first of the concerts, entitled Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae (Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) was a colorful and entertaining concert, with a lavish ensemble, with the recorders and violins sounding warm, virtuous and beautiful. (...) The concert ended by paying tribute to Marc-Antoine Charpentier, (...) with rich colors by the recorders and the continuo.”
Que Revienten Los Artistas – Revista Digital de Artes Escénicas (23 de junio 2018), Adolfo Simón Madrid. Teatro Lagrada.
Musical-theatrical solo performance “Incipit”.
“Un performance plástico musical en la que el cuerpo interactúa con el espacio sonoro creado a partir de la Divina Comedia. Una experiencia sugerente y nada convencional.”
------- “A musical-visual performance in which the body interacts with the soundspace created based on the Divine Comedy. A suggestive and unconventional experience.”
El Diario Vasco, María José Cano (11 de agosto 2018)
Quincena Musical de San Sebastián. Ímpetus Madrid Baroque Ensemble. Director: Yago Mahúgo. “Les Concerts Royaux” of Couperin.
“Los intérpretes fueron cambiando de instrumentos -especialmente la flautista, que utilizó diversos tamaños y tesituras, (...) para dotar de un color diferente a cada una de ellas. La lectura que escuchamos de este agradable repertorio fue adecuada y contó con momentos especialmente destacables, como en la 'Musette' del 'Concierto en la'.”
-------- “The musicians varied their instruments - especially the recorder player, who used different sizes and tessitures, (...) to give a different color to each of them. The interpretation that we heard of this pleasant repertoire was adequate and featured particularly remarkable moments, as in the 'Musette' of the 'Concert in A."
El Pozo y el Péndulo (agosto 2018)
Festival Internacional de Santander. Ímpetus Ensemble Barroco. Director: Yago Mahúgo. “Les Concerts Royaux” of Couperin.
“Mayor fortuna nos depararon Lobke Sprenkeling con sus cuatro flautas de pico (que además demostró excelente compenetración con el violín en algunos de los pasajes más disfrutables de la noche (...)”
--------- “"We were fortunate to have Lobke Sprenkeling with her four recorders (who also showed excellent rapport with the violinist in some of the most enjoyable passages of the night)"
