Kammerorchester Berlin

The Kammerorchester Berlin is one of the most traditional orchestras of the German capital. The ensemble, consisting mainly of musicians of the younger generation, has maintained and developed its position during more than six decades and has stood out internationally through concerts in countries like Spain, Italy, France, England, Japan, India, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, USA and Canada.
The Orchestra was founded in 1945. With its first artistic leader, conductor Helmut Koch, the orchestra experienced great acknowledgement already in the 50s and 60s. In this time the ensemble obtained several renowned distinctions like the Grand Prix du Disque and the Japanese Disc Prize for Vivaldi's "Juditha Triumphans", Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" and Mozart's "Betulia liberata" as well as the Goethe Prize of Berlin for the excellent presentation of the city in foreign countries.
In the 70s and 80s the orchestra was united to the conductor Peter Schreier, with whom it realized numerous concert tours and CD and TV productions. Amongst others the complete profane cantatas of J.S.Bach were recorded for the German television. In that time the ensemble collaborated with artists like Vittorio Negri, Ludwig Güttler, Edith Mathis, Kurt Masur, Jeffrey Tate, Annerose Schmidt, Heinz Schunk and Jochen Kowalski.
In recent years and until today the Kammerorchester Berlin has worked with the artistic directors Katrin Scholz, Michael Sanderling and Michael Erxleben with whom it realized several CD productions for Berlin Classics/edel. It was invited to the Rheingau Music Festival, Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Choriner Musiksommer, Canarias Music Festival, Festival Internacional de Música de Pollença/ Mallorca and many others. International tours lead the orchestra to Japan, the USA, to Poland, Turkey, to Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Soloists it has worked with include Saleem Abboud Ashkar, Gabor Boldoczki, Matt Haimowitz, Robin Johannsen, Eldar Nebolsin, Michael Sanderling und Katrin Scholz. The Kammerorchester Berlin maintains its own concert series at the Konzerthaus Berlin and at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.

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