Biography
Bettina Hoffmann is a violist, cellist and musicologist.
She graduated in cello at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim with Daniel Grosgurin and then went on to study viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken.
She specialises in the performance of early music, and has given concerts all over Europe, participating in major festivals such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Holland Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Settimana internazionale di Erice, Festival van Vlaanderen, Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Ambraser Schloßkonzerte Innsbruck, Estate Fiesolana, Società del Quartetto Milano, Regensburger Tage Alter Musik etc. not only as a soloist and the director of the ensemble Modo Antiquo, but also collaborating with other prestigious early music groups.
A significant discography (more than 70 CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, Naïve, CPO, Amadeus, Opus 111, Dynamic, Brilliant Classic, Tactus and others) includes notably the recent cd Marin Marais, Idées grotesques, the sonatas Scherzi Musicali for viola da gamba by Johann Schenck and the first complete disc of the works by Ortiz and Ganassi. With her ensemble Modo Antiquo she was been nominated two times, in 1997 and 2000, to GRAMMY AWARD.
Bettina Hoffmann is author of the Catalog of solo and chamber music for viola da gambaand of La viola da gamba published in 2010 by L'Epos, Palermo in 2015 in German by Ortus Musikverlag, in English by Routledge in 2018. She has edited the critical editions of the sonatas for cello by Antonio Vivaldi and Domenico Gabrielli (Bärenreiter-Verlag) and facsimile editions of sonatas for cello and works for viol by Antonio Vivaldi (Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi, S.P.E.S.).
Bettina Hoffmann teaches viola da gamba at the Conservatorio «Arrigo Pedrollo» di Vicenza, and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. From her long teaching experience comes a tutor for beginners, «L'arte di suonare la viola da gamba. Metodo in musica», Carisch, 2010.
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