Camerata Salzburg

With its own concert series and as a regular ensemble at the Salzburg Festival and Mozart Week, CAMERATA has left its mark on the city of music. As a cultural ambassador, it is also a guest on the world's great concert stages. With musicians from more than 20 nations, the orchestra's sound is particularly representative of Viennese classical music, especially the music of its most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

In 1952, the Viennese conductor and musicologist Bernhard Paumgartner, who was working in Salzburg, founded the Camerata Academica as an ensemble of teachers and students of the Mozarteum with the vision of creating an ideal sound through the personal responsibility of each individual musician in the highest sense of community. Sándor Végh had the greatest influence on the development of CAMERATA as its chief conductor from 1978 to 1997, and his credo of approaching each piece as if it were a chamber music ensemble of a string quartet still characterises the sound and playing style of CAMERATA today.

Since 2016, CAMERATA has been playing under its own management and democratic self-image, with its concertmasters and artistic directors Gregory Ahss and Gio¬vanni Guzzo, and in collaboration with guest conductors depending on the repertoire. CAMERATA works closely with its artistic partners, pianist Hélène Grimaud and violinist Janine Jansen. In the 2024/25 season, CAMERATA will also work with artists such as Lisa Batiashvili, Mao Fujita, Sheku Kanneh-Ma¬son, Fazıl Say, Dorothee Oberlinger and Richard Galliano.

CAMERATA pays particular attention to the development of young talents, and with CAMERATA Young carries out intensive music education work. Inclusive projects such as "Papageno goes to school" and concerts for young and old bring the fascination of classical music to all sections of the population. Wherever possible, CAMERATA also includes music education projects in its tours.