Artist · Flute
Stephanie Lepp
Biography
Stephanie Lepp is a versatile player of the flute, alto flute and bansuri from Spielberg, Germany.
She studied with Robert Winn and Berten D’Hollander and graduated in classical flute from the Cologne Musikhochschule in 2006. She subsequently took lessons with Mario Caroli in Strasbourg, France.
After her solo improvisation was nominated for the Gaudeamus Music Prize in Amsterdam in 2008, she attended an inspiring workshop on “Intuitive Music and More” with Markus Stockhausen in Italy. Since then, she has continued to explore creative approaches to music-making, particularly improvisation, intuitive music and world music. Her workshops and masterclasses have included work with Stockhausen, Jorge Pardo, Zaza Miminoshvili and Trilok Gurtu.
In 2010, she discovered the bansuri, the transverse bamboo flute of northern India. She has since studied bansuri playing and Indian ragas with Dinesh Mishra.