Pia Marei Hauser is a flutist, dramaturg and lecturer with a focus on contemporary music. She is a founding member of Ensemble CRUSH and performs with the ART Ensemble NRW. As a soloist and in various chamber music formations, she appears at international concerts and festivals.
Her work includes solo as well as ensemble projects and performative concert formats with an emphasis on world premieres and the experience of music in space. She regularly collaborates with composers from around the world and has premiered more than one hundred pieces, including music by Birke J. Bertelsmeier, Amen Feizabadi, Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, Peter Gahn, Peter Kerkelov, Günter Steinke and Dragomir Yossifov.
Her concert engagements have taken her to venues such as the NOW! Festival at the Philharmonie Essen, the Opening Festival Trier, Unerhörte Musik Berlin, the Chamber Music Festival Agitato, the March Music Days in Ruse (Bulgaria), as well as to South Korea for the International Contemporary Music Festivals in Daegu and Jeju. Her interpretation of Edison Denisov’s flute sonata was broadcast in 2019 by Bulgarian National Radio and later by Swiss Radio.
In 2021, Pia Marei Hauser was part of the music theater production “Transfleisch” by Sergej Maingardt for Deutschlandfunk, and in the same year she received a prize in the international music video competition “corona encore – coffee mask”, performing as DUO CRUSH.
She studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at the University of Music Münster, as well as in France at the Conservatoires de Musique in Strasbourg and Montpellier. In addition, she completed a Master’s degree in concert dramaturgy at the Folkwang University of the Arts with distinction. Her artistic practice combines musical and dramaturgical approaches into interdisciplinary concert formats with a particular focus on spatial perception and performative processes.
Alongside her concert activities, Pia Marei Hauser works as a lecturer at the music universities in Münster and Osnabrück in the intersection of artistic practice, reflection and education, and gives workshops and coaching sessions for flute, contemporary music and improvisation.
Westdeutsche Zeitung:
„…three solo pieces by flutist Pia Marei Hauser, who opened the concert with Debussy’s 'Syrinx' for flute, conjuring precisely the kind of magic that could hold its own against
spirits. Her delicate playing even sparked an unexpected dialogue with birds, whose cheerful chirping could be heard clearly as they seemed to compete with one another."