Enrico Coden is an Italian flute player, researcher, and teacher. He performs music from the Renaissance to the present day through the lens of historically informed performance practice.

He is currently a doctorate candidate and university assistant in the artistic-scholarly doctoral program at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. His research project Embodying the affects: flute music, rhetoric, and expression in Lorenzoni’s Vicenza of the 1770s explores the impact of historical acting techniques on instrumental performance, particularly in the context of flute repertoire associated with Antonio Lorenzoni’s method. Moreover, he is teaching flute at the Music School of the City of Linz and the Federal Music Schools of Bad Ischl and Mondsee.

He plays with several renowned ensembles, such as Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble and T. Hengelbrock, Il Gusto Barocco and Jörg Halubek, Orchestra Frau Musika and Andrea Marcon, and LaBarocca and Ruben Jais. He has made recordings for RAI, ORF, Prospero Classics, and Cinémathèque française. He is co-founder of the Orchestra giovanile Filarmonici Friulani, the only musical ensemble entirely managed by young people under-35 in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia-Giulia.

As a researcher, he focuses on Italian flute music between the 18th and 19th centuries and its performance practice. He presented his research with articles on Tibia and Falaut, and lectures for the Utrecht Early Music Festival and the Indiana University Bloomington. Together with Peter Schmid, he published the critical edition of Gian Girolamo Fogliani’s Concerto per flauto traversiere for Schmid & Genewein Verlag.

His composition Introduktion, Thema und Variationen über “Es wird scho glei dumpa” was published by Edition Walhall.

He previously worked as a flute teacher at the Federal Music School of Freistadt (Austria) and the Jacopo Tomadini Conservatoire in Udine (Italy). Together with Uma Torres Tarrès, he created the educational project Trave(r)ssant: a time travel through historical flutes, whose goal is to spread their passion for Early Music among young flute students. The project premiered in 2022 at the Conservatori i Escola Municipal de Música de Lleida (Spain).

He studied flute, historical performance and music pedagogy at the Jacopo Tomadini Conservatoire in Udine (with Giorgio Marcossi) and the Anton Bruckner University in Linz (with Norbert Girlinger, Johanna Dömötör, and Claire Genewein), and at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (with Kate Clark and Wilbert Hazelzet). He also followed masterclasses with Mario Caroli, Reza Najfar, Barthold Kuijken, Marc Hantaï, Marcello Gatti, and Anne Pustlauk.

Enrico lives in Linz, Austria. In his free time, he enjoys hiking in nature and restoring old stuff.

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