While being a recorder student in Germany she played many concerts in Europe under the pseudonym of Theodora Sommer.
[1] She moved to Holland, where she studied recorder with Jeanette van Wingerden and Frans Brüggen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
She obtained her Degree in Performance with honors and won several prizes at the International Competition for Woodwinds at the Early Music Festival in Bruges.
Composers who wrote music for Trio Dolce include: Lothar Lämmer (Pfeif drauf!, 1985), Ivo van Emmerik (Voci eguali, 1986; Renvoi à l'environ, 1993), John Cage (Three, 1989), Ron Ford (Steps, 1990), Floris van Manen (Langzaam & zacht, 1993), and Walter Zimmermann (Shadows of Cold Mountain I, 1993).
It was first performed by Trio Dolce on July 27, 1990, at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt.