It was impossible to forget the flute’s ravishing solo.
- El Diario Vasco
"Aniela Frey excels in her lyrical phrasing on the flute!"
- El País
Swiss-Austrian flutist Aniela Frey holds the position of Principal Flutist at the Royal Opera House «Teatro Real» in Madrid and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Jacques Zoon at the prestigious Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid and since 2015 holds a professorship at the Music Conservatory “Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Katarina Gurska” in Madrid. Aniela Frey frequently performs as a soloist and chamber musician. She regularly conducts master classes for flute and has been invited repeatedly as guest principal flutist at various international orchestras.
Aniela Frey received her musical training at the Music University of Freiburg as a precollege student, where she subsequently completed her concert diploma with Robert Aitken. Gaining a scholarship, she went to Vienna to study at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst and later on received her soloist diploma with distinction with Jacques Zoon at the Haute école de musique Genève. In addition to her studies, she received significant musical encouragement by renowned artists such as Aurèle Nicolet, Emmanuel Pahud (Accademia Musicale de Chigiana de Siena), Jeanne Baxtresser, Philippe Bernold, Hansgeorg Schmeiser, Wolfgang Schulz etc.
Aniela Frey has been awarded numerous prizes with the recorder and later with the flute at national («Jugend Musiziert») and international music competitions (Festa Special Award at the Osaka International Chamber Competition), both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She won the highly acclaimed international «Prix Credit Suisse de Jeunes Solistes» and as a result was invited to make her debut with a solo recital at the Lucerne Festival. The same year, she performed at the Davos Festival «Young Artists in Concert», as well as at the Mont Blanc Festival, where she won the «Grand Prix Zulawski».
From an early age, Aniela Frey gathered extensive orchestral experience playing as principal flutist in outstanding youth orchestras such as the German National Youth Orchestra (Bundesjugendorchester), the Junge Baden-Württembergische Philharmonie and the Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa. She was Principal Flutist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and Guest Principal Flutist at the Chamber Orchestra of Munich. Furthermore, Aniela Frey was accepted into the Orchestra Academy of the Zurich Opera House, where she was able to significantly broaden her experience and repertoire by playing in one of the leading international opera orchestras. Subsequently, she has been invited there again as a Guest Principal Flutist.
Aniela Frey has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the conductorship of Claudio Abbado and played under the baton of famed conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnányi, Franz Welser- Möst, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marc Minkowski, Adam Fischer, Ivor Bolton, Gustavo Dudamel, etc.
She is frequently invited to international concert tours and festivals (e.g. Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Bolzano Summer Festival, etc.), where she participates in CD and DVD recordings with well-known labels such as Decca, EMI, and Deutsche Grammophon.
In the course of her career, Aniela Frey took a sabbatical year in which she pursued postgraduate studies of Music and Event Management combined with Humanitarian Studies at the ESE in London. After having concluded her postgraduate studies «summa cum laude», she went on spending six months in Argentina and Africa working with NGOs on-site. Since then, Aniela Frey has built a strong connection to Africa and repeatedly returns to Tanzania for continuous work on her music projects.
In 2014, she initiated a charitable cooperation between the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid and the foundation "Edytra/Polígono Don Bosco" in San Salvador, Central America.
In 2022, Aniela Frey co-founded the Madrid Soloists Artist Management with her business partner and longtime friend and colleague, Gabor Szabo.
Enjoying and appreciating her work as a musician, it has been Aniela Frey’s long- standing wish to become more involved in Music Management and share her love and passion for quality music exchange with musicians and audiences around the globe.
Aniela Frey received her musical training at the Music University of Freiburg as a precollege student, where she subsequently completed her concert diploma with Robert Aitken. Gaining a scholarship, she went to Vienna to study at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst and later on received her soloist diploma with distinction with Jacques Zoon at the Haute école de musique Genève. In addition to her studies, she received significant musical encouragement by renowned artists such as Aurèle Nicolet, Emmanuel Pahud (Accademia Musicale de Chigiana de Siena), Jeanne Baxtresser, Philippe Bernold, Hansgeorg Schmeiser, Wolfgang Schulz etc.
Aniela Frey has been awarded numerous prizes with the recorder and later with the flute at national («Jugend Musiziert») and international music competitions (Festa Special Award at the Osaka International Chamber Competition), both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She won the highly acclaimed international «Prix Credit Suisse de Jeunes Solistes» and as a result was invited to make her debut with a solo recital at the Lucerne Festival. The same year, she performed at the Davos Festival «Young Artists in Concert», as well as at the Mont Blanc Festival, where she won the «Grand Prix Zulawski».
From an early age, Aniela Frey gathered extensive orchestral experience playing as principal flutist in outstanding youth orchestras such as the German National Youth Orchestra (Bundesjugendorchester), the Junge Baden-Württembergische Philharmonie and the Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa. She was Principal Flutist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and Guest Principal Flutist at the Chamber Orchestra of Munich. Furthermore, Aniela Frey was accepted into the Orchestra Academy of the Zurich Opera House, where she was able to significantly broaden her experience and repertoire by playing in one of the leading international opera orchestras. Subsequently, she has been invited there again as a Guest Principal Flutist.
Aniela Frey has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the conductorship of Claudio Abbado and played under the baton of famed conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnányi, Franz Welser- Möst, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marc Minkowski, Adam Fischer, Ivor Bolton, Gustavo Dudamel, etc.
She is frequently invited to international concert tours and festivals (e.g. Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Bolzano Summer Festival, etc.), where she participates in CD and DVD recordings with well-known labels such as Decca, EMI, and Deutsche Grammophon.
In the course of her career, Aniela Frey took a sabbatical year in which she pursued postgraduate studies of Music and Event Management combined with Humanitarian Studies at the ESE in London. After having concluded her postgraduate studies «summa cum laude», she went on spending six months in Argentina and Africa working with NGOs on-site. Since then, Aniela Frey has built a strong connection to Africa and repeatedly returns to Tanzania for continuous work on her music projects.
In 2014, she initiated a charitable cooperation between the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid and the foundation "Edytra/Polígono Don Bosco" in San Salvador, Central America.
In 2022, Aniela Frey co-founded the Madrid Soloists Artist Management with her business partner and longtime friend and colleague, Gabor Szabo.
Enjoying and appreciating her work as a musician, it has been Aniela Frey’s long- standing wish to become more involved in Music Management and share her love and passion for quality music exchange with musicians and audiences around the globe.