Originally from a little village in the north of Germany, now living in Basel, flautist Johanna Bartz is a versatile and internationally sought-after musician. Still studying, in 2016 Johanna Bartz became a teacher for the renaissance traverso at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Since 2024 she is professor for historical flutes at the HEM Geneva. She directs the ensemble astrophil & stella, which is dedicated to Renaissance and early Baroque music in a variety of instrumentations and concert formats.
She also performs with ensembles such as Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Johanna Soller, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Richard Egarr), Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Anima Eterna Brugge (Jos van Immerseel), Gli Incogniti (Amandine Beyer), La Chimera (Eduardo Eguëz), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Georg Kallweit/Berhard Forck), Berlin Baroque (Gerhard Oppelt), Sollazzo Ensemble (Anna Danilevskaia), CONTINUUM (Elina Albach), El Gran Teatro del Mundo (Julio Caballero) and Arlequin Philosophe (Pedro Memelsdorff). Additionally, CD and broadcast recordings for rbb Kulturradio, MDR, SR, SRF, Radio de la Suisse Romande, Radio Catalunya, Querstand, Coviello, Passacaille, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and discreet editions as well as invitations as a guest lecturer to Mozarteum Salzburg, University of Arts Berlin (DE), Conservatorio A. Casella L’Aquila, ESMUC Barcelona, ESMAE Porto, Conservatorium van Amsterdam or finnish Ensemble Nylandia complete her work as a musician.
In addition to historical flute instruments, Johanna Bartz is also dedicated to other forms of musical expression such as video and audio installations, contemporary music and improvisation. Together with Eva Leonie Fegers she was the co-founder and curator of the artist platform ‘Phosphenes’ that presented and connected musicians during the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently she is developing the tonRaum Basel project together with Christina Hess and Alice Borciani.
Johanna Bartz was an awardee of numerous foundations and international competitions. She completed her master’s degree with distinction at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2017, where she studied the traverso with Marc Hantai and the renaissance flute with Anne Smith. Before that she studied with Barthold Kuijken, Anne Pustlauk and Frank Theuns at the Royal Conservatory Brussels and with Christoph Huntgeburth at the University of Arts, Berlin, where she previously received a diploma in modern flute and instrumental pedagogy with Annette von Stackelberg.