Marie-Louise Wundling

Biography

Marie-Louise Wundling works as a freelance cellist in Cologne and leads a multifaceted musical life. She plays in projects of contemporary, classical and baroque music, organises her own chamber music projects and teaches students of all age groups. She is regularly asked to play in ensembles such as Concerto Köln, Spira Mirabilis, Dresdner Festspielorchester, Gürzenich Orchester Köln and Folkwang Kammerorchester. After graduating with the modern cello from the universities of music in Salzburg, Zürich and Essen, she completed a master’s programme of historical performance practice in the class of Prof. Werner Matzke at the university of music in Trossingen, passing with distinction. Additional important musical input came from Christoph Dangel and Mayumi Hirasaki.

Grown up in a family of musicians, chamber music has always constituted a possibility of communicating and finding a connection with other people for Marie-Louise. She is a member of ‘ Ensemble Inbetween’, a chamber music group rooted in historical performance practice, which, as a string trio or in a larger formation, works on pieces from the 19th and 20th century. Besides this, she also plays in the Swiss ensemble ‘Prospero Consort’, which regularly searches to combine baroque and contemporary chamber music in its programmes.

Getting involved with artists of other fields presents a rich source of inspiring experiences for Marie- Louise. This is why she works together with the theatre company ‘Familie Flöz’ in their production ‘ Feste’, cooperates with the sculptor and electronic musician Tina Tonagel in a joint sound experimentation project and has been enrolled in a philosophy programme for a few semesters.

Eine wichtiger Erfahrung in den letzten Jahren stellte für Marie-Louise das Forschungsprojekt „WagnerLesarten“ von Concerto Köln unter der Leitung von Kent Nagano und Shunske Sato dar. Die Beschäftigung mit der Aufführungspraxis spätromantischer Musik im orchestralen Kontext legte den Grundstein zu einer auf historischen Ausdrucksmitteln basierenden Suche nach einer eigenen, flexiblen und singenden Klanggestaltung für das klassische romantische Cellorepertoire.