Camerata Bern
The Camerata Bern is an internationally known chamber orchestra from Bern . It consists of 14 musicians, all of whom are also active as soloists. The orchestra performs standing without a conductor. His repertoire ranges from the baroque to the present day.
The orchestra, which is now subsidized by the city and canton of Bern and the Civic Community of Bern , was founded in 1962 by Alexander van Wijnkoop together with other students at the Conservatory . Alexander van Wijnkoop (1962–1979) was followed as concertmaster by Thomas Füri (1979–1993), Ana Chumachenco , Thomas Zehetmair (1993–1999) and Erich Höbarth (2001–2010). Antje Weithaas has been the artistic director since 2010 . In 2018 she was replaced by the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja , who has continued to serve as an "artistic partner" since 2020.
In the course of its history the ensemble has worked with internationally known soloists such as Heinz Holliger , Aurèle Nicolet , Jean-Pierre Rampal , Maurice André , András Schiff , Radu Lupu , Peter Serkin , Gidon Kremer , Nathan Milstein , Boris Pergamenschtschikow , Narciso Yepes , Pepe Romero , Barbara Hendricks , Peter Schreier , Emmanuel Pahud , Sabine Meyer and others worked together.
Just four years after it was founded, the orchestra embarked on its first world tour, and numerous other tours followed.
The orchestra has received several international awards for its recordings, such as the German Record Critics' Prize , the Grand Prix du Disque , the Record Critics Award, the Record Academy Prize and the Echo Klassik Prize of the German Phono Academy.
In Bern, the Camerata Bern organizes its own concert series with matinée concerts and subscription concerts in the Paul Klee Center , in the Conservatory and in the Kultur Casino . The orchestra also makes an important contribution to music education with numerous performances in schools in the Canton of Bern.
In 2012 the Camerata Bern celebrated its 50th birthday. Twenty composers from home and abroad were commissioned to compose a short string orchestra piece that had to be suitable for a performance without a conductor. This resulted in compositions by Heinz Holliger , Jean-Luc Darbellay , Thomas Demenga , Daniel Glaus and the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja .
For the anniversary, the ensemble also received fourteen instruments from the Brienz violin making school , made from Baroque models, from the thirteen Bern guilds, the civic community and the Hans and Verena Krebs Foundation .
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- ↑ Top violinist becomes director of Camerata Bern. In: The Bund . May 5, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Oliver Meier: Happy Birthday, Camerata Bern! In: Berner Zeitung . August 30, 2012, archived from the original on February 25, 2015 .