Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Biography
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Akamus) celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2022. Founded in Berlin in 1982, the ensemble is now one of the world's leading chamber orchestras playing historically informed music.
For four decades, the orchestra has demonstrated its versatility with exciting concert projects, making significant contributions to the rediscovery of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann. Thoughtfully, the ensemble has also gradually expanded its core repertoire from the Baroque and Classical periods into the 19th century, most recently with its much-acclaimed cycle "Beethoven's Symphonies and their role models."
Whether in New York or Tokyo, London or Buenos Aires, Akamus is a much sought-after guest on the most important European and international concert stages.
Akamus is a central pillar in the cultural life of its home city of Berlin. For over 35 years, the orchestra has been playing a subscription series at the Konzerthaus Berlin. At the Berlin State Opera, the ensemble has regularly dedicated itself to Baroque opera since 1994. With its own concert series, Akamus has also been a regular guest at Munich's Prinzregententheater since 2012.
Akamus performs under the alternating direction of its two concertmasters, Bernhard Forck and Georg Kallweit, as well as selected conductors. The ensemble has a particularly close and long-standing artistic partnership with René Jacobs. In addition, Emmanuelle Haïm, Bernard Labadie, Paul Agnew, Diego Fasolis, Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, and Christophe Rousset have recently conducted the orchestra.
Akamus also works regularly with internationally renowned soloists such as Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit, Kit Armstrong, Alexander Melnikov, Anna Prohaska, Michael Volle, and Bejun Mehta. Together with the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests, they created the internationally successful production of Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, which has been widely performed from Berlin to Sydney. The most fruitful partnership with the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin deserves special mention: the collaboration, which has been equally formative for both ensembles, began 30 years ago. Akamus also maintains a close partnership with the Bavarian Radio Chorus.
The ensemble's recordings have won all the major recording awards, including the Grammy Award, Choc de l'année, and the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics. In 2006, the orchestra received the Telemann Prize of the City of Magdeburg, and in 2014, the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig.
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Elke Kottmair
Georg Kallweit
Yves Ytier
Elke Kottmair
Georg Kallweit
Yves Ytier
Prizewinners of the International Singing Competition of the Rheinsberg Kammeroper
Bernhard Forck
Andreea Geletu
Prizewinners of the International Singing Competition of the Rheinsberg Kammeroper
Bernhard Forck
Andreea Geletu
Prizewinners of the International Singing Competition of the Rheinsberg Kammeroper
Bernhard Forck
Andreea Geletu
Carolyn Sampson
Olivia Vermeulen
Kai Kluge
Krešimir Stražanac
Audi Jugendchorakademie
Martin Steidler
Carolyn Sampson
Olivia Vermeulen
Kai Kluge
Krešimir Stražanac
Audi Jugendchorakademie
Martin Steidler
Opera Collective Ireland
Anna Devin
Benjamin Russell
Christian Curnyn
Patrick Mason
Opera Collective Ireland
Anna Devin
Benjamin Russell
Christian Curnyn
Patrick Mason
Opera Collective Ireland
Anna Devin
Benjamin Russell
Christian Curnyn
Patrick Mason
Bernhard Forck
Evelina Liubonko
Olivia Vermeulen
Florian Sievers
Krešimir Stražanac
Silvia Frigato
Mathilde Ortscheit
Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
Evelina Liubonko
Olivia Vermeulen
Florian Sievers
Krešimir Stražanac
Justin Doyle
Dorothee Oberlinger
Ute Hartwich
Alain Claude Sulzer
Georg Kallweit
Dorothee Oberlinger
Ute Hartwich
Alain Claude Sulzer
Georg Kallweit
Johanna Winkel
Catriona Morison
Martin Mitterrutzner
Arttu Kataja
Lukasz Borowicz
Johanna Winkel
Catriona Morison
Martin Mitterrutzner
Arttu Kataja
Lukasz Borowicz
Dorothee Oberlinger
Ute Hartwich
Georg Kallweit
Bernhard Forck
Carlo Vistoli
Georg Kallweit
Carlo Vistoli
Georg Kallweit
Carlo Vistoli
Georg Kallweit
Georg Kallweit
St. Johannis-Kantorei Rostock
Markus Johannes Langer
Julia Doyle
Sophie Rennert
Simon Bode
Matthias Winckhler
Justin Doyle
Julia Doyle
Sophie Rennert
Simon Bode
Matthias Winckhler
Justin Doyle
Julia Doyle
Sophie Rennert
Simon Bode
Matthias Winckhler
Justin Doyle
Julia Doyle
Sophie Rennert
Simon Bode
Matthias Winckhler
Justin Doyle
Bernhard Forck
Updated August 2022