Tabea Debus

Described by The Times as a “charismatic virtuoso,” Tabea Debus, recorder, is much sought after as a soloist, collaborator, teacher, and communicator. Over the last year, she has returned to Wigmore Hall and recorded live concerts commissioned by the Vancouver Recital Society, San Francisco Early Music, Shriver Hall Washington D.C. Discover Series, London International Festival of Early Music, the Banquo de la Republica in Colombia. In 2020, her recording for Delphian, Ohrwurm, was released to critical acclaim. Passionate about outreach work, Debus has developed several projects including a music/art-game Soundshapes, a play-along library Continuo Lines, and Endo the Earthworm, a series of videos inspired by Gareth Moorcroft’s Diaries of the Early Worm, which uses puppets.

Debus works with musicians, actors, and artists and has contributed to Saffron Hall’s Together in Sound, Jackdaws Music Education Trust, and Music Masters. This season, Debus gives recitals across the US, including at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., Merkin Concert Hall and Morgan Library in New York, and University of Chicago, as well as for Houston Early Music. Other highlights include concerts at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany, where she won the prestigious Soloists Prize in 2019. Debus was a prize winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust International Auditions in London in 2018 and the Concert Artists Guild International Auditions in New York in 2019. She teaches recorder at Wells Cathedral School and leads composition and chamber music workshops at the Royal Academy of Music and Cambridge University.