Gudrun Heyens was born in 1950 and now lives in Duisburg / Germany. Between 1968 and 1973 she studied recorder and violin with Günther Höller and Franz-Josef Maier and between 1973 and 1981 was a founding member of Musica Antiqua Köln with whom she has made numerous radio broadcasts and performed extensively both in Germany and internationally. She received the German Prize for Recording in 1977 for “Concerti per Flauto”, a recording with Musica Antiqua Köln of concertos by Sarri, Valentine, Barbella and Mancini. Gudrun Heyens has been a member of the Marais Consort since 1984 and professor of recorder at the Folkwang-Hochschule since 1985. She is currently President of the German branch of the European Recorder Teachers” Association (ERTA).