Flautist Henrik Wiese was born in Vienna in 1971 and has grown up in Hamburg. After having taught himself to play the flute at the age of ten, he had lessons from Professor Ingrid Koch in Hamburg. Later he studied with Professor Paul Meisen in Munich where, after five university semesters, he was given a contract as principal flautist at the Bavarian State Opera.
Henrik Wiese is prizewinner of the German Music Competition in 1995 and the Elise-Meyer-Competition 1996 as well as the international competitions in Kobe/Japan in 1997, Markneukirchen/Germany in 1998, Odense/Denmark (Carl Nielsen) in 1998 and Munich/Germany (ARD) in 2000.
Concert tours led him around the globe. I visited the Far East (Japan, Taiwan and India), North and South America, and many countries in Europe. His artistic mastery is documented on CDs of chamber music works by C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach, Handel, Kirnberger, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Weber. The G. Henle edition in Munich offered him to edit some works of great masters. His main interest lies in the works of Mozart and the Bach student Johann Philipp Kirnberger.
