Fie Schouten

Fie Schouten is a renowned Dutch clarinettist, known for her expertise in contemporary and improvised music, with a particular focus on the low clarinets. Based in Amsterdam, she is an active soloist and performs in chamber music formations and in pluridisciplinary projects . She has been a guest musician with the prestigious German Ensemble Musikfabrik for 15 years. Over the course of her career, more than 100 works have been composed specifically for her, which she has premiered in various formations.She is the artistic director of the Dutch "Basklarinet Festijn," a festival dedicated to the bass clarinet, which had it's first edition in 2014. Her albums are released on labels such as Attacca, Trytone, Karnatic Lab Records, Kairos, and Relative Pitch Records. In 2019, Schouten was awarded the 1st Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Composition Commission Award for her contributions to the music scene in the Netherlands and her commitment to promoting fair practice in the arts.

Fie Schouten is since 2013 professor at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, in the Netherlands, and teaches at the Classical and the Jazz Department. She was guestprofessor at various universities in Europe and in the USA. She studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and cites bass clarinetist Harry Sparnaay as her most important teacher and coach.