Ensemble Volcania & Elisabeth Champollion
Elisabeth Champollion completed her studies of recorder in Bremen, Germany, with Han Tol and Dörte Nienstedt and was a Master student of Pierre Hamon in the Lyon Conservatorium of Music in France.

She lives in Bremen and works as a freelance soloist and ensemble player, especially with her three groups Boreas Quartett Bremen, PRISMA, and Ensemble Volcania.

Concert tours as a soloist with the orchestras New Dutch Academy, Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg and Concerto Foscari bring her to play solo concertos and chamber music in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Boston Early Music Festival, Valletta Festival, Premiere Performances Hong Kong, MDR Musiksommer or Tage Alter Musik Herne.

On stage, Elisabeth goes for a rich communication with the other musicians and with the audience. She offers to discover and convey the joy and melancholy, woes and easiness of baroque music and modern music on historical instruments.

In 2019/2020 Elisabeth was a teacher of Consort/Ensemble playing in the recorder classes of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.

„Her talents as a recorder player are singular – technical wizardry, captivating expressivity and creativity, emotional depth and genuineness, and all delivered with an intensely likable magnetism and flair. She has it all.“ (Simon Murphy)

„Her performance beamed with competence and expertise, with a spirited sound and very good taste, enthralling by the outstanding technique and musical inspiration, and a subtle and authentic interpretation." (Bart Spanhove)

„Incredibly intense and rhetorical“ (Dorothee Oberlinger)

Elisabeth also curates an Early Music concert series in Bremen and is first prize winner of the competition for recorder solo in Nordhorn, Germany (2014) and was awarded first prize of the International Biber Competition in St. Florian (Austria) in 2015, together with her ensemble PRISMA. With Boreas Quartett Bremen she won first prize and audience prize of the TAMIS Competition for Early Music by the Saarland radio and a scholarship by Deutscher Musikrat. Her dedication to live performances combining Baroque and New Music in a passionate, captivating way led to the founding of her group Ensemble Volcania, uniting Early Music performers with some of the most exciting composers of today.

In 2011 she has taken part in the Academy Concerto21, dealing with new concert formats and audience development.