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For our promoters: if you need a biography or picture of one of the directors we are working with at the moment, please contact us at info@eubo.org.uk.
The artists we currently or regularly work with include:
Lars Ulrik Mortensen | Chiara Banchini | Petra Müllejans | Edward Higginbottom | Margaret Faultless | Ton Koopman | Enrico Onofri | Christina Pluhar ||Roy Goodman |Rachel Podger | Jaap ter Linden | Christophe Coin | Andrew Manze | Reinhard Goebel
Lars
Ulrik Mortensen
Lars
Ulrik Mortensen, after a long association with EUBO as harpsichord tutor
and guest director, is now its Music Director. Highly regarded as soloist
and chamber musician, Lars Ulrik Mortensen is becoming increasingly known
as a conductor. His exceptional contribution to the artistic world was
marked in 2007 when he was awarded the Leonie
Sonning Music Prize (previous recipients have included Stravinsky,
Messiaen, Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Eliot Gardiner). He is currently
the Artistic Director of Concerto Copenhagen, and appears regularly directing
opera at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where his most recent successes
include Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito.
Mortensen’s discography is extensive and he has received awards
worldwide for his recordings. Between 1996 and 1999 he was professor for
harpsichord and performance practice at the Hochschule für Musik
in Munich and he teaches at numerous courses for baroque music.
Italian violinist Enrico Onofri’s career began with an invitation from Jordi Savall to be concertmaster of La Capella Real. Very soon he also found himself working with groups such as Concentus Musicus Wien, Ensemble Mosaiques and Concerto Italiano, and since 1987 he has been concertmaster and soloist with Il Giardino Armonico. His conducting career began in 2002 to great critical acclaim. Since 2005 he has been principal conductor of the Portuguese ensemble Divino Sospiro, and guest conductor of the Academia Montis Regalis in Italy. In 2000 he founded the chamber ensemble Imaginarium to perform the great Italian baroque violin repertoire.Many of the CDs which Enrico Onofri has recorded, for labels including Teldec, Decca, Zig Zag, Astree, Opus 111 and Virgin, have been awarded prestigious international prizes, and many of his concerts have been broadcast by European, American, Asian and Australian networks.Since 2000, Enrico Onofri has been professor of baroque violin at the Conservatorio Bellini in Palermo, and has given masterclasses throughout Italy and Europe.
Ton
Koopman
Harpsichordist
and organist Ton Koopman has been involved with EUBO since its inception
and was responsible for the development of its annual pattern of activities.
Best known for his work with his own Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, he is
engaged with them on projects to record all the cantatas and all the organ
works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Ton is also chief conductor of the Netherlands
Radio Chamber Orchestra with whom he performs repertoire up to the mid-nineteenth
century. Ton Koopman publishes regularly, is Professor of Harpsichord
at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and is an Honorary Member of the
Royal Academy of Music in London.
Christina
Pluhar
Born in Graz, Christina Pluhar graduated in lute with Toyohiko Sato from
the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag. Subsequently, she studied at Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis with Hopkinson Smith and at the Scuola Civica di
Milano with Mara Galassi. In 1992 she moved to Paris and performs with
groups such as La Fenice, Concerto Soave, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ricercar,
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy and Concerto Köln. Since 1993, Christina
has been teaching baroque harp at Den Haag and giving masterclasses at
Graz University. Her repertoire includes solo and continuo works from
the 16th to 18th centuries for renaissance lute, baroque guitar, archlute,
theorbo and baroque harp. She founded L’Arpeggiata in 2000, whose members
are some of today’s finest European soloists. The group’s aim is to revive
unknown repertoire, with a focus on French, Italian and Neapolitan music
from the early 17th century. The ensemble has made a series of CDs for
the Alpha label.
Margaret
Faultless is a specialist in historical performance practice. Since 1989
she has been a leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE),
working with Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Roger Norrington, Ivan Fischer, Mark
Elder and Vladimir Jurowski. She directed OAE on their first tour to Mexico
and more recently in a series of Italian baroque programmes. For over
12 years Margaret led the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman
with whom she recorded all the Bach cantatas. As a soloist with the ABO,
she released a CD of music by Locatelli to critical acclaim. She has directed
her own ensemble, Music for Awhile, in many programmes including English
baroque opera and recordings with flautist Wilbert Hazelzet and harpsichordist
Matthew Halls. Margaret is Artistic Director of the orchestra Devon Baroque,
and a member of the London Haydn Quartet. Herself a graduate of Cambridge
University, Margaret has established a baroque project there, lectures
on performance practice, is Director of Studies of the European Union
Baroque Orchestra and regularly directs orchestras at the Royal Academy
of Music in London. Margaret plays on a violin of the Bergonzi school.
Petra Müllejans is one of two artistic directors, concertmaster, soloist and chamber musician of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, in whose development she has played a decisive role. She studied in Düsseldorf, New York and Freiburg, and became fascinated by the sound of the baroque violin. Therefore she took lessons with Helga Thoene in Düsseldorf and Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg. One focus of her work is 17th and 18th century chamber music with solos, which she has performed with the Freiburg Baroque Consort and The Age of Passions ensemble. Petra Müllejans not only displays her spontaneous musicality in early music, but also as a Klezmer, tango and Czardas violinist. Petra is professor of baroque violin in Frankfurt.
Edward
Higginbottom is Choral Professor at Oxford University and has been Director of Music at New College Oxford since 1976,
having made his early mark as a keyboard player. With New College Choir
he has developed an extensive repertoire and discography. His musical
career began at Cambridge, where he was an undergraduate, a post-graduate
(his doctoral these was on French baroque music) and a research fellow.
He has had a long contact with French music (editing, recording, performing)
and has advised the French Ministry of Culture on reintroducing choir
schools in France. Edward Higginbottom’s academic interests extend to
historical performance practice issues, which he teaches alongside other
specialities at Oxford University. He has directed projects with several
of Europe’s leading period instrument ensembles, including the Academy
of Ancient Music and EUBO.
Roy Goodman
Having
been Music Director of EUBO from 1989 to 2003, Roy Goodman returns in
2008 to direct the Orchestra once again. Roy Goodman is Principal Guest
Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Leader and conductor
of the Bachkoor Holland accompanied by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Kamerorkest.
He has recently been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Auckland
Philharmonia in New Zealand with effect from May 2009. During his remarkable
career, he has worked as guest conductor with over 100 orchestras and
opera companies worldwide. Goodman is well known for his work as director
and founder of the Brandenburg Consort (1975-2001), co-director/founder
of the Parley of Instruments (1978-1986), co-founder of the London Handel
Orchestra (in 1981), Principal Conductor of the Hanover Band (1986-1994),
the first Principal Conductor of Umeå Symphony Orchestra and Norrlands
Opera Sweden (1995-2001), Music Director of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
in Winnipeg (1999-2005) and as the first Principal Conductor of Holland
Symfonia (2003-2006).
Rachel
Podger
Rachel
co-founded The Palladian Ensemble and Florilegium, highly acclaimed baroque
chamber groups performing music of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
From 1997 to 2002 she was leader of The English Concert with whom she
toured extensively. As well as giving recitals throughout the world, she
now regularly directs The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arte
dei Suonatori (Poland), Musica Angelica and Santa Fe Pro Musica (USA).
Her extensive discography has attracted many international awards; the
most recent releases include Volume I of the complete Mozart Sonatas for
Violin, with harpsichordist and fortepianist Gary Cooper, and Vivaldi
Violin Concertos with Arte dei Suonatori. Rachel is Professor of Baroque
Violin at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. and teaches
at the International Sommer Akademie in Innsbruck, Austria.
Jaap
ter Linden
Jaap
ter Linden was co-founder of the ensemble Musica da Camera and principal
cellist of Musica Antiqua Köln, the English Concert and the Amsterdam
Baroque Orchestra. He is now regular conductor of the Amsterdam Mozart
Academy and a guest with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Portland Baroque
Orchestra, Beethoven Akademie, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bach Soloists and San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque. As chamber musician
he performs with violinists Andrew Manze and John Holloway and harpsichordists
Richard Egarr and Lars Ulrik Mortensen, and has recently founded a piano
trio with Elizabeth Wallfisch and Ronald Brautigam. Ter Linden’s discography
is extensive and includes a recording of the Bach solo suites, violin
sonatas by Rebel and Bach (with Manze and Egarr) and all the Mozart symphonies
with the Amsterdam Mozart Academy. Jaap ter Linden is professor at the
Conservatories in Den Haag and Amsterdam and at the Hochschule für Alte
Musik in Würzburg.
Christophe Coin began his studies with André Navarra at the Paris
Conservatory and later studied in Vienna with Nikolaus Harnoncourt
and in Basel with Jordi Savall. In 1984, he co-founded the Quatuor Mosaïques to specialise in Viennese classic repertoire. Alongside hisactivities as a chamber musician, Christophe Coin is regularly invited as a soloist and conductor throughout Europe. Since 1991, he has directed the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges in 17th and 18th century repertoire. In Limoges, he has organised regular international symposia to examine playing techniques and manufacture of early instruments. His recordings have been well-received by the critics; prizes include Gramophone Awards for Haydn's Opus 20 and Opus 33 quartets played by the Quatuor Mosaïques, and a Classical Music Victoire Award for his recording of Bach’s “cello piccolo” cantatas with the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges. Christophe Coin teaches at the Paris Conservatory and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel.
Andrew
Manze
Having
first worked with EUBO in 1989, violinist Andrew Manze has been a regular
guest artist since then. After a period as concertmaster of the Amsterdam
Baroque Orchestra, he was appointed Associate Director of The Academy
of Ancient Music in 1996. Andrew is an exclusive recording artist with
Harmonia Mundi USA and was HM's Artist of the Year in 1998. This collaboration
has resulted in many, award winning recordings with Romanesca, Richard
Egarr, Jaap ter Linden and the AAM, including discs of sonatas by Biber,
Schmelzer and Tartini, and concertos by Vivaldi, Bach and Handel. Alongside
his outstanding solo career, he has recently been appointed Music Director
of the English Concert.
Reinhard
Goebel
Reinhard
Goebel is known worldwide for his lively interpretations of 17th- and
18th-century works and for virtuosic and imaginative historical performance
practice. Musica Antiqua Köln recordings, on the Archiv label, are
now considered standard and have been showered with international awards
and prizes, amongst them several Gramophone Awards. Shortly after recording
Biber's Mystery Sonatas in 1990, a freak paralysis of his left hand abruptly
ended Goebel's career as Konzertmeister of MAK, a role he had always performed
from the violin. Goebel took the courageous decision to re-learn his instrument,
holding it with the right hand, whilst continuing to direct his ensemble
during the years of his 'second apprenticeship'. In 2006 he announced
his decision to disband MAK and to retire from directing from the violin.
Goebel will now dedicate himself to conducting both period and modern
orchestras.
Chiara Banchini graduated from Geneva Conservatory, and afterwards completed her studies with Sandor Vegh. She then went on to explore the baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken, and was awarded a soloist diploma by the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag. Chiara Banchini is now one of the most renowned baroque violinists on the international musical scene. In addition to a the career as an international concert performer, she taught the baroque violin at the Centre for Early Music in Geneva before being appointed to a chair in the instrument at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. In 1981 Chiara founded her own chamber orchestra, Ensemble 415, which was immediately a resounding success. Distinguished for its virtuosic and flamboyant playing, Ensemble 415 undertakes regular concert tours and has made a series of recordings of works by Corelli , Boccherini, Muffat and Vivaldi, among others. Chiara Banchini plays a violin by Nicola Amati (1674).
