Mahler Chamber Orchestra

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1997 by Claudio Abbado and former members of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. The orchestra has 45 members from 20 different countries and are about 60-70 concerts a year. The Mahler Chamber Orchestra is registered as a registered association in Berlin.

History

The orchestra was founded in 1997 when some of the musicians of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra reached the age limit of this orchestra. Since she still wanted to play music together, they decided to form a new chamber orchestra. This them was Claudio Abbado, the music director of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, someone had already in 1981 in a similar situation supports the establishment of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. At the Festival International d' Art Lyrique d' Aix -en- Provence, 1998, the newly founded orchestra had its first major success when performed it Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.

Daniel Harding takes a central position since 1998. He has already acted as a 22 -year-old as Principal Guest Conductor, Music Director in 2003, 2008 Principal Conductor chosen and finally appointed Conductor Laureate in 2011. He has worked with the most key pieces of classical music ( including the major Mozart operas and a Beethoven cycle), the romantic and modern. For some time, the collective focus has been on the romantic repertoire.

The MCO is internationally not only in its cast, but also in its orientation. Focal points within its radius of action ' are in Europe, next to lead global guest performances by the orchestra regularly to Asia and South America. 2007 debuted the MCO at Carnegie Hall in New York. In Europe, the orchestra is at the most prestigious and festivals from Southern Italy and Northern Norway as a guest. Close connections with the Turin concert organizers Lingotto Musica, the Teatro Regio in Parma, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Musikfest Bremen, the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées in Paris, the Salzburg Mozart Week and Music Festival Grafenegg to Harstad Festival in Northern Norway, the Aldeburgh Festival and Snape to the Festspielhaus Baden -Baden, the festival Prague Spring and the radial V in Berlin.

Centers of the extended tour activities are the residences of the orchestra, where the MCO spends long rehearsal and concert stages regularly. Since 1998, the MCO orchestra in residence at Ferrara Musica. As part of the residence around 100 concert programs and operas were performed in the last fifteen years. A portion of the Concerts conduct Claudio Abbado and Daniel Harding, with whom the MCO opens up new repertoire fields here. These find exciting first encounters with young, hopeful conductors and soloists instead. The MCO is also active in Ferrara outside the Teatro Comunale, has its own chamber music concert series at the Jazz Club Ferrara and works closely with the Conservatory of Ferrara.

Since May 2009, the MCO Residence Orchestra in North Rhine -Westphalia. Venues are the concert halls in Dortmund, Essen and Cologne. The NRW Art Foundation and the State of North Rhine -Westphalia 's partners and sponsors. Together with the concert halls and the orchestra | NRW in Dortmund take place artistically high-quality opera and concert performances. An important part of the residence is the MCO Academy for training and education of the young orchestra.

The MCO has recorded for Virgin Classics, German Grammophon and Decca 26 for part award-winning CDs, including opera with Claudio Abbado and Daniel Harding, the Grammy award-winning live recording of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 with Martha Argerich and a recording of Italian arias with Anna Netrebko. In 2003, Symphonie fantastique with Marc Minkowski the German Record Prize. 2008 appeared Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen, in the spring of 2009 was followed by a recording of Romantic Arias with Jonas Kaufmann, in the spring of 2011, the 2nd Piano Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody by Rachmaninoff with Wang Yujia.

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