In 1990 Susanne Scholz started to play on "historical" instruments and also to research on different matters within the performance practice field.
Parallel to her artistic career, her teaching activities on historical violin instruments, chamber music, orchestra and opera projects, she read on Ornamentation, Source Reading, and Repertoire Studies.
Susanne Scholz has lectured on special arguments within the performance practice field as
- Violin bowing according to 16th, 17th and some 18th-century evidence in violin and general music treatises and the implications of these bowings for general bowing techniques, Violin positions in the 16th, 17th and 18th century,
- Violin playing / playing technique from the beginning to the time of Giovanni Maria Bononcini (Montecorona/Zocca 1642- Modena1678) and his sons,
- Die Stimmangaben für Geigeninstrumente und die Relevanz der „Prattica di musica utile et necessaria si al compositore per comporre i canti suoi regolamente...“, Venezia 1592 für die Grazer Hofkapelle,
- French violin playing in the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, Bowing sources for violin playing,
- Beating the Time,
- Il Compendio Musicale di Bartolomeo Bismantova,
- Virtuosity in the Violin Solo Repertoire from the 16th to the 17th Century, Articulation
- Bowing Indications in the the Writings of Monteclair, Dupont and Muffat - the special case of the Syncopation and the Sarabande,
- Die Verbindung der Herrscherhäuser und deren Hofkapellen am Beispiel der Chronik von Cerbonio Besozzi,
- Three Generations Vitali?- Stylistic Change in Italy around 1700,
- L'Immagine di Corelli - on different ways to look at the Opus V Sonatas and different lectures on the project of the Freiberg Instruments (The 5 violin instruments of the Freiberg Cathedral - The only remaining violin consort of the 16th century in the world).
From 2018 Susanne is working on her doctoral theses. Together with the newly founded ensemble gamma.ut, she is exploring the repertoire of the violin family from the Renaissance onwards in smaller formations and doing research on the five Renaissance violins that were given to the golden angels at a height of 12 metres in the Freiberg Cathedral around 1594.
The realization of her artistic research has led to CD productions with her ensemble chordae freybergenses and to a very special recording of the Sonatas Opus V by Arcangelo Corelli with her harpsichord partner Michael Hell (released by Querstand in 2015 and 2018).
Recent publications:
“The Language of the Violin”
in four parts within the journal FIMA (Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica) “Il Ganassi”
First Part Anno XIV n.11,
Second Part Anno XVI n.13,
Third Part Anno XVII n.14,
Fourth Part Anno XVIII n.15
Im Himmel wie auf Erden
A.Scandello
on the Renaissance Instruments of Freiberg
L'Immagine di Corelli
Sonatas Opus V by Arcangelo Corelli with Michael Hell (released by Querstand in 2018)