Chamber Orchestra of Europe
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) is a chamber orchestra . It was founded in 1981 and has 60 members from different European countries. The orchestra's management is based in London . However, the orchestra musicians themselves travel to rehearsals and concerts from their home countries, as the orchestra is not a full-time institution, but works on a project basis and does not have a permanent location. Concert halls in which the Chamber Orchestra of Europe can be heard more often include the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main , the Cologne Philharmonie , the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Philharmonie de Paris . The orchestra also plays regularly at the styriarte in Graz , the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland , the Salzburg Festival and the Proms in London. In parallel to their orchestral work, the members of the COE pursue careers as international soloists, as section leaders of national orchestras as well as chamber musicians, lecturers and professors.
history
The orchestra was formed in 1981 when some musicians from the European Community Youth Orchestra (ECYO) had reached the age limit of 23 years for this orchestra. Since they wanted to continue making music together, the plan to found a new, professional chamber orchestra was born. The then music director of ECYO, Claudio Abbado , agreed to support the project and acted as mentor for the newly founded orchestra. The orchestra's first European tour with Abbado drew attention to the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, which was further increased by record awards for recordings of works by Rossini and Schubert with Abbado.
In addition to Abbado, the orchestra had a particularly close relationship with the Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt , who was an honorary member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with his wife Alice , the conductor Bernard Haitink and the pianist András Schiff . With Harnoncourt the orchestra played a. a. the nine symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven . This recording has won numerous international record awards.
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe works with many record companies and has produced more than 250 recordings with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Paavo Berglund , Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock and Yannick Nézet-Séguin . Several recordings of the orchestra won a. a. three Gramophone Awards and two Grammy Awards . The COE was the first orchestra to set up its own label with COE Records , in collaboration with ASV Records. It is now distributed by Universal Music Group .
The COE was named European Cultural Ambassador from 2007 to 2013 and is supported by the European Commission's cultural program . Among the orchestra's sponsors are the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Underwood Trust .
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe will be based in the Casals Forum in Kronberg im Taunus from 2021 .
Discography
Literature from and about the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in the catalog of the German National Library
Awards (selection)
- 2018: Opus Klassik for the concert recording of the year
Web links
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- ↑ Music: Magic Moments ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in: The Sunday Times, May 7, 2006
- ^ Andrew Clements, " Schubert: Lieder, orchestrated by Berlioz, Offenbach, Liszt, Brahms, Reger, Webern and Britten: Von Otter / Quasthoff / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Abbado ", in: The Guardian , June 27, 2003.
- ↑ Andrew Clements, " Chamber of wonders, " in The Guardian , July 20, 2001.
- ^ Andrew Clements, " Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5: Aimard / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Harnoncourt ", in: The Guardian , February 28, 2003.
- ^ Andrew Clements, " Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Octet, etc, Hope / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Hengelbrock », in: The Guardian , November 16, 2007.
- ↑ Gilles Macassar, “ Sous la direction d'un Yannick Nézet-Séguin fervent, les symphonies de Schumann retrouvent leur luster ”, in: Télérama , April 22, 2014.
- ↑ JAN BRACHMANN: The only positive thing about Brexit. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 28, 2018 .
- ↑ OPUS KLASSIK , accessed on October 14, 2018.