Chamber Orchestra Berlin
The Berlin Chamber Orchestra has existed since 1945. Its first conductor was the conductor Helmut Koch . The orchestra managed to make a name for itself as early as the 1950s. It received the Japanese Record Prize and the Grand Prix du Disque for Antonio Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans , L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Betulia liberata as well as the Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin .
In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s the Berlin Chamber Orchestra was associated with the tenor singer and conductor Peter Schreier , with whom it went on numerous tours; several CD and television productions were made. Among other things, all of Johann Sebastian Bach's secular cantatas were produced for German television. During this time the orchestra worked with the trumpeter Ludwig Güttler , with Vittorio Negri and the conductors Kurt Masur , Heinz Schunk and Jeffrey Tate .
From 1995 to the present day, the Berlin Chamber Orchestra has mainly worked with the artistic directors Michael Sanderling , Katrin Scholz and Michael Erxleben. Various recordings were made by edel Berlin Classics. The Berlin Chamber Orchestra received invitations to the Rheingau Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , the Choriner Music Summer , the Festival de Música de Canarias and the music festival in Pollença on Mallorca . It made guest appearances worldwide, including in Japan, the USA, Poland, Turkey, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
Today the chamber orchestra works with numerous soloists, including Gábor Boldoczki , the pianist Paul Lewis , Saleem Abboud Ashkar , Matt Haimovitz , David Fray and Katrin Scholz . The Berlin Chamber Orchestra has its own series of concerts in the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic .