Ute Völker
Is an accordionist who specialises in improvised music. In her music she explores the possibilities of her instrument. She creates sound architecture, which dissolves space and time while constantly finding new and surprising acoustic forms.

She gives concerts regularly at international festivals for improvised music in Europe where she performs as a soloist or in ad-hoc positions.

Ute Völker is one of the founding members of the ensemble for new and improvised music, PARTITA RADICALE, whose work ranges from the development of their own improvisational cycles through to silent-film music and working together with composers and theatre projects.

For years Ute Völker has played with the violinist Mathieu Werchowski (F) and the guitarist John Russell (GB) as well as in a trio together with the Wuppertal violinist Gunda Gottschalk and the Belgian double bass player Peter Jaquemyn, and in a duo with the flutist Angelika Sheridan.

She also works in interdisciplinary projects together with visual artists, video film makers, actors, literati and performers.
She is a member of the formation Fineworks, a pool of improvisational musicians from North Rhein Westphalia, Wiesbaden and Bremen.

Among other places, her work is documented on the CDs
"Anthrazit" Accordion solo (free elephant), "baggerboot" with Gottschalk and Jaquemyn (henceforth records), "frutas azules" with Partita Radicale (free elephant), "Three Planets" with Russell and Werchowski (EMANEM), "Rumania today 3" with Partita Radicale (Sonoton).

Ute Völker studied accordion and harmony and counterpoint at the Wuppertal branch of the Musikhochschule Köln (Cologne Music School). She then went on to study musicology, German and phonetics in Cologne, Vienna and Paris.

She lives in Wuppertal and works as a music teacher at the Musikschule Bochum (Bochum Music School).