Liane Sadler uses historical flutes ranging from the Mediaeval to Romantic to unearth transtemporal musical worlds. Her curiosity leads her down multifaceted paths through the distinct and yet overlapping spheres of early, contemporary, and traditional music. 

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She directs the ensemble Hourglass - dedicated to lingering in musical thresholds between the past and the present, as well as working closely in her duo Sadler & Conrad - a current S-EEEMERGING ensemble, which experiments with lattice-like arrangements of 16th-century polyphony for traverso and lute.

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A core member of early music ensembles Phaedrus - a renaissance traverso consort, and pseudonym - which pioneers chamber music practices from the 17th and 18th centuries, Liane has additionally appeared with groups across Europe such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Orkester Nord, Weimar Baroque, and Ensemble Ripieno. She also works regularly with jazz and contemporary composers and musicians, most notably in the Francesca Gaza Quartet: aminth, utilising the unique colours and sounds of her historical transverse flutes to reinterpret them as contemporary instruments. With voice as well as flutes, she also explores traditional and folk music realms.

 

Liane completed her orchestral and soloist masters degrees in Baroque, Classical, and Romantic flutes with Professor Christoph Huntgeburth at the University of the Arts Berlin. At the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, she gained a further masters in Baroque traverso with Professor Marc Hantaï, as well as additional postgraduate studies with Johanna Bartz and Marc Lewon in Mediaeval and Renaissance flutes. From 2019-2024, she was a co-founder and -artistic director of the Alte Musik Fest Friedenau in Berlin, which worked to innovate early music concert formats through conceptual and interdisciplinary programming.