Camerata Salzburg
Camerata Salzburg is a renowned chamber orchestra which, in addition to its performances in Salzburg, regularly appears as a cultural ambassador on the world's great concert stages - from Vienna to Hamburg, Paris, Amsterdam and Buenos Aires.
Camerata Salzburg is one of the busiest chamber orchestras in the world. Concert tours take Camerata Salzburg from its home base at the Mozarteum to venues around the globe. Back in Salzburg, audiences can experience the orchestra during regular appearances at the Salzburg Festival, Mozart Week and at subscription concerts. The focus is on Viennese Classical music, especially the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but also works from the early Romantic period.
Camerata Salzburg was established in 1952 by Salzburg conductor and musicologist Bernhard Paumgartner. He assembled around him a group of teachers and students from the Mozarteum music school to make music together. Since his death, Antonio Janigro (1974-1978), Sándor Végh (1978-1997), Sir Roger Norrigton (1998-2006), Leonidas Kavakos (2006-2009) and, as of 2011, Louis Langrée have all left their mark on Camerata Salzburg.
It was above all under Sándor Végh that Camerata Salzburg gained international fame. It was also he who put that special “Camerata Sound” on the lips of the musical world. Each voice of the orchestra is given the space it deserves, though without ever neglecting the whole. In doing so, the individuality of each of the 36 musicians is brought to full effect.
