Camerata Bern

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HarrisonParrott is delighted to expand its collaboration with CAMERATA BERN working on strategical international touring with renowned soloists and developing culture exchange programmes through residencies which include community participation.

HarrisonParrott touring department and the ensemble have started a closer relationship in 2018 when Patricia Kopatchinskaja appointed as their Artistic Partner and they start to perform her thematic programmes such as “Time & Eternity”, “Death and The Maiden” and “Maria Mater Meretrix” which features soprano Anna Prohashka. So far the tours have taken them to Ghent Festival, Bonn Beethoven Festival, Amsterdam Muziekgebouw, Rotterdam De Doulen, Frankfurt Alte Oper and Cologne Philharmonie. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern premiered their concert-film Death and the Maiden on HarrisonParrott’s new streaming platform Virtual Circle in March 2021. Recorded in Bern’s different locations, this concert-film features music from the Grammy award winning programme of Death and The Maiden and explores virtual / psychological concert hall, passing of time and how we inhabit space.

Founded in 1962 with the goal of performing as a flexible formation without conductor, CAMERATA BERN is a world class chamber orchestra with 15 members, all outstanding soloists. They perform a wide range of repertoire from baroque to contemporary at their own concert series in Bern and at international festivals and leading concert halls of Europe, North and South America and Asia collaborating with soloists such as Antje Weithaas, Anna Prohaska, Sol Gabetta, Pekka Kuusisto, Sergio Azzolini and Kristian Bezuidenhout. CAMERATA BERN welcomes a Composer-in-Residence every season and the Swiss composer Gabrielle Brunner joins them in 2021/22. Their recordings on CD and vinyl have won several international awards such as the Grand Prix du Disque, the German Record Critics’ Award or the Echo Klassik. The recent album releases with Patricia Kopatchinskaja include “Time and Eternity” in September 2019 and “Plaisirs illuminés” in January 2021 which features a new work by Francisco Coll written for Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta.