Manfredo Kraemer

Manfredo Kraemer (born October 27, 1960 in Buenos Aires ) is a German-Argentinian violinist and ensemble leader.

Live and act

Manfredo Kraemer studied violin in Córdoba, Argentina . Since he was particularly fascinated by the repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, he came to Germany and studied baroque violin with Franzjosef Maier at the Cologne University of Music . In 1985 he was one of the founding members of Concerto Köln and from 1986 he played in Reinhard Goebel's “Musica Antiqua Köln”, at times as a soloist and concert master. In 1991 Jordi Savall invited him to his ensembles “Le Concert des Nations” and “ Hespèrion XX ” as concertmaster, a task that he continues to perform regularly to this day. He has participated in innumerable concerts and recordings as concertmaster in many well-known baroque ensembles under the direction of conductors such as William Christie , Marc Minkowski , Jos van Immerseel , Frans Brüggen , René Jacobs , Gabriel Garrido and others.

In 1996 he founded the ensemble “The Rare Fruits Council” with the Argentinian violinist Pablo Valetti . Immediately after it was founded, the ensemble made a recording of Biber's “Harmonia Artificosa Ariosa” and “Sonatae tam Aris quam Aulis servientes”, which received worldwide recognition. In 2001 he founded the Argentine baroque orchestra “La Barroca del Suquía”, of which he is concertmaster and conductor.

Kraemer taught in the 1990s at the Hilversum and Caen Conservatories. Since 2002 he has been professor of baroque violin at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona. He regularly gives numerous master classes in Europe, Korea and in North and South America. Manfredo Kraemer lives with his wife, the cellist Nina Diehl in Cordoba, Argentina.

Web links

• La Nacion: Kraemer, el fruto de una creativa fusión (in Spanish)
• Manfredo Kraemer at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the Orquesta Barroca Sevilla website (in Spanish, accessed March 9, 2020)