Carolina Nees is a music communicator with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and a freelance oboist. She studied the oboe at Mozarteum University Salzburg and has worked throughout Germany as an orchestra musician. Nees is the founder of the free Ensemble Duo Papagena, whose focus is on music theatre presentations for children. At the University of the Arts Bremen, Carolina Nees completed the course “Experiencing and communicating music”. She then worked at the “Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe” as a concert pedagogue for the “Badische Staatskapelle”, and in 2019, she started working as a music communicator for the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Nees writes concepts for children’s and youth concerts and is onstage as a spokeswoman and moderator. Since 2018/2019, Carolina Nees has been teaching theory and practice of communicating music at the “Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim”.