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Evelin Degen (* 1966 in Hilden) is a German flutist.
Degen studied flute with André Sebald and Matthias Rütters at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Since 1997 she is lecturer for flute at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and also taught at the University of Essen from 1999 to 2005.
As a member of the Türmchen Ensemble (since 1998), she participated several times in the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and other festivals for contemporary music and worked on radio and CD recordings of works by contemporary composers such as Caspar Johannes Walter, Carola Bauckholt and Annette Schlünz. María Cecilia Villanueva, Karin Haussmann, Manos Tsangaris, Thomas Stiegler and Eric Oña with.
She performed works by Morton Feldman and Salvatore Sciarrino with the Ensemble Tra i Tempi, to which she was a member in 1999. She also worked on music theater projects such as Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schönberg (2003), scelsi nacht (2005), the series Erlebnis Neue Musik (2005) and Becket Musik (with world premieres of Vladimir Mendelssohn's Godot Fragments and Michael Veltmans Sunev, 2006) With.
Also since 1999, Degen works together with the bassist Peter Böving, with whom she wrote a series of musical-literary albums for texts u. a. by Erich Kästner (Good Music makes lonely, 2001) and Ernst Jandl (Jandls Ernst, 2000 and Funk Ernst, 2001). Since 2002 she has also been a member of the ensemble E-MEX for New Music, in particular the performance and recording of works by composers such as Sven-Ingo Koch, Gordon Kampe, Elena Mendoza-López, Valerio Sannicandro, Vassos Nicolaou, Yasuko Yamaguchi, Christoph Maria Wagner and Jörg Birkenkötter dedicates.
On May 4, 2011, in recognition of her services to the Robert Schumann College, she was awarded the title of honorary professor.