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Freiburger Barockorchester

Baroque orchestra

Biography

The Freiburger Barockorchester (FBO) is one of today's leading ensemble for historic performing practice. It has had a significant presence on the international music scene for more than 30 years, and continues to set musical standards with its concerts and recordings.

The FBO was founded in 1987 by former students of the Freiburg College of Music, most of them from the violin class of Rainer Kussmaul, who later became leader of the Berlin Philharmonic. The new ensemble soon became one of the most sought-after ensembles playing on historic instruments, and made an international reputation for itself. The FBO makes regular guest appearances at major international concert venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Wigmore Hall London, New York's Lincoln Center, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Philharmonie de Paris. Concert tours take the orchestra all over the world, from South America to Australia. At the same time the FBO has its own subscription series in Freiburg, Stuttgart and Berlin, and is a regular guest at major music festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Tanglewood Festival in the USA and the Innsbruck Early Music Festival.

The orchestra's core repertoire consists of works from the Baroque and Classical periods, but it also performs works by Romantic composers, particularly music by Mendelssohn and Schumann. Following the principles of historic performing practice, the FBO plays without a conductor for the most part. But for selected projects such as opera performances or orchestral works calling for a large ensemble, it works together with well-known conductors like Pablo Heras-Casado, Sir Simon Rattle or Teodor Currentzis. The FBO has an especially intense musical friendship with René Jacobs, with whom it cooperates in particular on performances of Mozart operas or Baroque and classical oratorios.

The orchestra's artistic directors are Gottfried von der Goltz (violin) and Kristian Bezuidenhout (pianoforte), who took over this position from Petra Müllejans in 2017. Both artists also appear assoloists. In addition, the FBO works together with a wide variety of well-known instrumentalists and vocal soloists, among them Isabelle Faust, Philippe Jaroussky, Christian Gerhaher, Alexander Melnikov, Andreas Staier and Jean-Guihen Queyras.

The FBO's exceptional musical diversity is documented on numerous recordings, which have been awarded many prizes, including several Echo Klassik awards, Grammy nominations and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

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Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Dorothee Mields
Alexander Chance
Julian Prégardien
Manuel Walser

Stuttgart, DE
Freiburg, DE
Stuttgart, DE
Berlin, DE
Antwerpen, BE
Freiburg, DE
Heilbronn, DE

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Florian Helgath
Yannick Debus
Olivia Vermeulen
Eva Zaïcik
Nikolay Borchev
Raffaele Pe
Neal Davies
Nicolas Brooymans

Paris, FR

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Florian Helgath
Yannick Debus
Olivia Vermeulen
Eva Zaïcik
Nikolay Borchev
Raffaele Pe
Neal Davies
Nicolas Brooymans

Barcelona, ES

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Yannick Debus
Isabel Pfefferkorn

Berlin, DE

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Yannick Debus
Isabel Pfefferkorn
Eva Zaicik
Olivia Vermeulen Silvia
Nikolay Borchev
Raffaele Pe
Neil Davies
Nicolas Brooymans

Freiburg, DE
Weikersheim, DE
Stockholm, SE
Kopenhagen, DK
Stuttgart, DE
Neumarkt, DE

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Frankfurt, DE

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Montpellier, Hérault, FR

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Paris, FR

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Valencia, ES

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Madrid, ES

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Palma de Mallorca, ES

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Budapest, HU

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Zurich, CH

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Seoul, KR

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Tongyeong, KR

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Tongyeong, KR

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Francesco Corti
Maximilian Schmitt
Yannick Debus
Kateryna Kasper
Philippe Jaroussky
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Andreas Wolf

Seoul, KR
Freiburg, DE
Katowice, PL
Freiburg, DE
Berlin, DE
Stuttgart, DE
Brussel, BE
Freiburg, DE
Bern, CH
Koln, DE
Freiburg, DE

Updated February 2021

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