Mag.art. Dr.
Dorothea Charlotte Seel
Dorothea Seel has been a lecturer in historical performance practice at the Mozarteum University (Innsbruck Campus) since 2016. She is an internationally active flautist specialising in 18th- and 19th-century repertoire and artistic director of the Baroque Soloists Munich. Her work combines performance practice with research into historical instruments and questions of sound aesthetics.
Dorothea Seel has performed with leading period instrument ensembles including The English Concert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concerto Köln and Concentus Musicus Wien. Since 2018, she has worked at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she also completed her doctorate in 2017. For her dissertation Der Diskurs um den Klang der Flöte im 19. Jahrhundert (The Discourse on the Sound of the Flute in the 19th Century), she received the Austrian State Prize “Award of Excellence” from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.