Founded in 1962, the CAMERATA BERN is a highly-acclaimed chamber
orchestra uniting top level musicians inspired by the idea of performing
within a flexible, self-conducted ensemble.
Its members are gifted soloists and chamber musicians. Under its
artistic director, the violinist ANTJE WEITHAAS, as well as guest
concertmasters Erich Höbarth, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Pekka Kuusisto,
Amandine Beyer, Enrico Onofri and others, CAMERATA BERN performs a broad
repertoire ranging from early Baroque to today’s composers. The
orchestra stands out for its subtle and perfectly homogeneous sound, its
freshness and mastery of style. With charisma and spontaneity adding to
its ability to thrill its public, CAMERATA BERN is now renowned as one
of the prime ensembles among chamber orchestras in Europe.
The ensemble’s outstanding qualities has led it to perform with such
eminent artists as Heinz Holliger, András Schiff, Vadim Repin, Alexander
Lonquich, Jörg Widmann, Sabine Meyer, Tabea Zimmermann, Vessilina
Kasarova, Bernd Glemser, Christian Gerhaher, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Maurice
André, Bruno Canino, Radu Lupu, Peter Serkin, Gidon Kremer, Nathan
Milstein, Boris Pergamenshikov, Narciso Yepes, Pepe Romero, Barbara
Hendricks, Peter Schreier, Jan Vogler, Reinhold Friedrich, Leonidas
Kavakos, Angelika Kirchschlager and others.
The ensemble has toured extensively in Europe, South- and
North-America, as well as in South-East Asia, the Far East, Australia
and Japan. Its recordings on Sony, Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv, Decca,
Denon, ERATO, Berlin Classics, Novalis, ECM, Claves and Philips have won
several international awards, such as the Preis der Deutschen
Schallplattenkritik, the Grand Prix International du Disque, the
International Record Critics Award, the Record Academy Prize, and the
Prize Echo Klassik ‘97 of the Deutsche Phono-Akademie. The latest
CD-releases feature Antje Weithaas in a Beethoven programme (CAVI,
September 2012). The next CD will be released in September 2015 with
Antje Weithaas as soloist in Brahms’ Violin Concerto.
Lately, CAMERATA BERN has performed at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt,
Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato/Mexico,
Morelia Festival in Mexico, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, in the Sala
Sao Paulo, at the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, at Geneva’s Victoria Hall,
at deSingel in Antwerp.
Within its large scale educational project for children since 2010,
the CAMERATA BERN performs concerts in schools across the Canton of
Bern. The project developed in the frame of the Education Department’s
“Education and culture” programme has reached over 10’000 children up to
now, mainly in the canton’s rural areas.
The CAMERATA BERN also focuses on historically informed performance and performs an early music concert series in Bern. (Squire Artists)
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