Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (short: Akamus ) is a 1982 in East Berlin, founded for the style- oriented performance of the music of the baroque and classical orchestras. For this purpose, the respective music on the instruments of the time of origin, or their replicas will be played. Furthermore, the historical tradition of instructions for the Game of the respective instruments and the implementation of the musical context in terms of articulation, dynamics, phrasing, tempo, rubato, etc. should play a major role in their time of origin. The orchestra usually works without a conductor. Only for projects with a large orchestra ( Classical, Romantic ) a guest conductor is invited. Since 1994, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin produced exclusively for the label harmonia mundi (France).

History

Two years after its founding in 1982, the Akamus received her first concert series in the former Berliner Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Konzerthaus today, which persists to this day as a concert subscription. In 1987, the first album of the ensemble at Eterna and Capriccio in both parts of Germany. After the fall of the Wall, the international significance of the Academy has continuously developed through fruitful contacts with musicians beyond the now fallen Iron Curtain and numerous tours throughout Europe, Asia, South and North America. A milestone which began in 1992 working closely with the RIAS Chamber Choir and its then chief conductor Marcus Creed was, which is now continued under his successors Daniel Reuss and Hans -Christoph Rademann.

Already in GDR times, a close connection to the Belgian countertenor and conductor René Jacobs has been established. Under his leadership, there was an abundance of concerts not only with opera performances, but also with oratorios, cantatas and orchestral works, many of which were well received and award-winning. The Academy is a regular guest at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Philharmonie in Berlin, De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, at the Innsbruck Festival and at Carnegie Hall in New York. Concert tours and festival appearances lead the orchestra regularly in the European countries and the USA, South America and Asia. With such soloists as Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl, Sandrine Piau and Bejun Mehta Akamus works regularly.

With the sensational staged concert 4 Elements - 4 Seasons ( Choreography: Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola ) consolidated the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin its international reputation as a creative and innovative ensemble. So also were created in partnership with the choreographer Sasha Waltz and their dance company successful productions such as Dido & Aeneas (music by Henry Purcell ) and Medea ( Music: Pascal Dusapin ). As here at Dusapin Opera, the Academy has led frequently works with new music that have been composed for the decidedly baroque instruments, such as by Christian Jost and Toshio Hosokawa.

Members

The trunk of the orchestra consists of about 30 musicians. The number of participants varies depending on the repertoire between 7 and 45 of the best known ensemble members include the four concertmaster Stephan Mai, Bernhard Forck, Georg Kallweit and Midori Seiler, cellist Jan freedom, flutist Christopher Huntgeburth, oboist Xenia Löffler and harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann. Among its honorary members, the orchestra appointed the conductor René Jacobs and Marcus Creed.

Awards

  • Grammy for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Italian Arias with Cecilia Bartoli, 2002
  • International Classical Music Awards for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute, 2011
  • Prize of the German Record Critics' Award for Georg Philipp Telemann: Orpheus ( René Jacobs), 1998; Arias for Farinelli, with Vivica Genaux, 2002, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute ( René Jacobs ), 2011
  • Choc du Monde de la Musique for Johann Sebastian Bach: Sacred Cantatas, 1996; Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, 1997; Arias for Farinelli, 2002; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: symphonies and concertos, 2001; Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets, with the RIAS Chamber Choir, 2005; Georg Philipp Telemann: Recorder Concertos with Maurice Steger, 2006 Antonio Vivaldi: double concertos, 2007
  • Choc de Classica for Georg Philipp Telemann: Brockes - Passion, 2009, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute, 2011
  • Diapason d'Or for Alessandro Scarlatti: Il primo omicidio, 1998; Georg Philipp Telemann: La Chasse / tragicomic Suite, 1999; Georg Philipp Telemann: Recorder Concerts, 2006; and Reinhard Keiser: Croesus ( René Jacobs), 2000; Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets, 2005 Johann Ludwig Bach: Funeral Music, 2011
  • Edison Classical Music Award for Georg Philipp Telemann: La Chasse / tragicomic Suite, 1999 and Reinhard Keiser: Croesus, 2000
  • Gramophone Award for Alessandro Scarlatti: Il primo omicidio, 1998 and George Frideric Handel: Ombra mai fù with Andreas Scholl, 1999
  • Midem Classical Award for Georg Friedrich Händel: Ombra mai fù, 1999
  • Georg Philipp Telemann Prize of the city of Magdeburg, 2006
Articulation (music) First Viennese School Romantic music RIAS Kammerchor Hans-Christoph Rademann Berliner Philharmonie
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