Biography

At the age of 15, Maria-Theresa Freibott was accepted as a young student by Prof. Giselle Herbet at the Würzburg University of Music, where she later began studying harp as a major. She completed her Master of Arts Harp with Prof. Stephen Fitzpatrick at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 2019 with top grades.

She received further inspiration from master classes with Frédérique Cambreling, Fabrice Pierre and Alice Giles.

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She is a multiple “Jugend musiziert” award winner at the federal level in both the “Harp Duo” and “Harp Solo” categories.

Maria-Theresa Freibott became a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra in 2011 and a member of the Baltic Sea Philharmonic in 2016. She also played as a substitute in the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Saarland State Theater, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Austrian Ensemble for New Music, among others.

Maria-Theresa Freibott can also be heard at regular intervals as a chamber musician, for example in a harp duo, in a trio with two singers or with trombone. CD recordings were most recently made in a duo with the flautist Horst Kreidler and in the "Duo Multicorde" together with the Chilean guitarist Andrés Madariaga. Her first Solo EP "Dreamscape" was released in December 2023.

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Concert tours have taken her to Switzerland, Italy, Estonia, Finland, Russia, and in the summer of 2024 with Duo Multicorde to Thailand and Japan. As a soloist performing W.A. Mozart's "Concerto for Flute and Harp," Maria-Theresa appeared with the Symphonic Orchestra of the Landestheater Detmold in October 2022.

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Since the 2017/18 season she has been engaged as a solo harpist at the Landestheater Detmold.