Dorothee Oberlinger is a renowned recorder player, ensemble leader, conductor, and professor, considered one of the most influential figures in Early Music today. She has received major awards including the Opus Klassik, Echo Klassik, Diapason d’Or, and the Telemann Prize. As a soloist, she performs with her Ensemble 1700 and leading Baroque orchestras across Europe. Since 2004, she has been professor at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and is artistic director of the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci and the Baroque Festival Bad Arolsen. Her opera conducting debut came in 2017 at the Göttingen Handel Festival with Lucio Cornelio Silla, followed by acclaimed productions of works by Bononcini, Telemann, the Scarlattis, Bernasconi, and Handel. She has conducted the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Philharmonie Duisburg, and made her opera debut at Bonn Opera with Handel’s Alcina. In 2025, she will lead projects with the Dresden Philharmonic and La Scintilla Zurich. In 2021, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.