Sonorities of the past can still speak to modern audiences: we are Ensemble Odyssee and this is why we make music. We are Anna Stegmann (recorder), Eva Saladin (violin), Georg Fritz (oboe), and Andrea Friggi (harpsichord), an Amsterdam-based ensemble that uses cutting-edge musicological research to push the boundaries of artistic creativity. Historically informed performance practice is our way of rediscovering lost sounds. From chamber music to full orchestra, we draw from the original instrumentation and offer its sounds to modern audiences. Our first CDs resurrected unknown repertoire from seventeenth-century Naples. Our latest one unearthed little-known English instrumental solo concertos. With each program, whether live or recorded, we bring back to life the sounds of a particular place and a particular time. Our sound is bold and precise because it is supported by solid musicological research. We perform regularly in different ensemble settings across Europe. As a chamber group, we were prize winner of Amsterdam’s prestigious International Van Wassenaer Concours, and have welcomed eminent guest artists such as sopranos Raffaella Milanesi and Claron McFadden, and counter tenor Filippo Mineccia.

Eva Saladin is a freelance musician based in Basel, Switzerland. She gives solo recitals and performs with chamber music ensembles and orchestras all over Europe. She has a wide knowledge about style and playing techniques from the early 17th until the early 19th century. She is an experienced orchestra and ensemble leader as well as a skilled improviser.
In 2021 she was Artist in Residence at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. In the same year, she published her solo cd “The Di Martinelli Manuscript”. Her second album with the complete violin sonatas by Antonio Pandolfi Mealli was released in May 2023.
She will publish a third album with a selection from Veracini’s “Sonate Accademiche” in June 2025.

Since October 2024 she has been Professor for Baroque Violin at the mdw (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien) in Vienna.

Since 2013 she is co-organising the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam; a biennale which has quickly grown into one of the biggest recorder events worldwide and brings together recorder amateurs and professionals alike from across the globe.
Anna regularly tours with her own ensembles Ensemble Odyssee and The Royal Wind Music. With these ensembles and as a soloist she has recorded Cds for the labels Glossa, Pan Classics, Lindoro and others. She also fosters a close musical relationship with violinist Jorge Jiménez - a duo which explores all music from the middle ages to the present day in exciting new concert formats. As a guest musician and soloist she has appeared in renowned ensembles such as La Risonanza (Fabio Bonizzoni), L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), Musica Sequenza (Burak Özdemir), The New Dutch Academy (Simon Murphy) , the Rotterdams Philarmonisch Orkest (led by Jordi Savall and Peter Dijkstra).
Anna began her journey as recorder player by taking private lessons with Gudula Rosa. Studies with Winfried Michel (Musikhoschchule Münster and Musikakademie Kassel) followed, before she settled in Amsterdam, where she studied with Paul Leenhouts and obtained her Master of Music with distinction in 2011.