About

Anabel Voigt (*2001) began playing the Tenor Horn at the age of 6 at her local music school (Orchesterschule KLANGwelt) with Alexander Richter. Given that there are no opportunities to study Tenor Horn in Germany, she went abroad to study in England. As a recipient of the Royal Birmingham Scholarship Award and also the first German Tenor Horn player, 2024 she finsihed her Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the direction of Helen Varley and Ian Porthouse. In autumn 2022 she went to Switzerland to do an exchange semester at the HSLU Luzern to study with Thomas Rüedi and Glenn van Looy. From autumn 2024 she will begin her Master of Music in instrumental Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music having gained also scholarship there.

Currently Anabel is playing Solo Horn with the Hammonds Band (former YBS). Since started her studies, she was a meber of Tredegar Town band for 2 years playing all major competitions. Addiitonally, she played with Grimethorpe Colliery Band among other things for their CD recording (2022), Brass Band Berner Oberland (CH) and was part of the European Youth Brass Band as well as the 1st World Youth Brass Band in 2022. Additionally, 2022 she became German and European Champion with Brass Band Regensburg. In 2023 she was awarded the Craxton Memorial Trust award.

So far she had the pleasure of having Masterclasses with Tenor Horn specialist like Sheona White, Owen Farr and Tim deMaeseneer, as well as Roger Webster, Bastien Baumet and Sarah Willis.

Growing up with the influences of the German classical world leads Anabel to see what is possible on the Tenor Horn by always trying to explore repertoire from all genre's, eras and other instruments.