EUBO Artists

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The artists we currently or regularly work with include:

Edward Higginbottom | Margaret Faultless ||Roy Goodman | Rachel Podger | Jaap ter Linden | Christophe Coin | Andrew Manze | Reinhard Goebel

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Directors

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.

Riccardo Minasi

Riccardo Minasi was born in Rome in 1978. He has performed both as soloist as well as concertmaster with Le Concert des Nations of Jordi Savall, Accademia Bizantina, Concerto Italiano, Il Giardino Armonico, Al Ayre Español Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia and Orchestra of the Teatro Real of Madrid. As a conductor he conducted the Kammerakademie de Potsdam, Zurich Kammerorchester, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Orquesta Barroca Argentina, L'Arpa Festante, Recreation-Grosses Orchester of Graz, Attersee-Akademie Orchestra, ensemble Resonanz, Il Complesso Barocco and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, of which he is the associate director since 2008. From 2004 to 2010 he was professor of chamber music at the Conservatorio V. Bellini of Palermo. He has also given violin and baroque orchestra master-classes, and lectures in historical practice at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge (USA), the Sibelius Academy of Helsinki, the Chinese Culture University of Taipei (Taiwan), the Kùks Residence in the Czech Republic, at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and, as the Italian representative of the jury in 2009, at the auditions for the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), which he will direct for the first time in 2012. His recording of Biber’s Rosenkranz Sonaten published by Arts was a finalist at the Midem Classical Award in Cannes.

Paul Agnew

After a long association with Le Jardin des Voix, Les Arts Florissants' academy for young singers, Paul Agnew is now their Associate Conductor. This interest in the training of new generations of musicians has also led him to conduct the French Baroque Youth Orchestra on several occasions, and he will make his directing debut with the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2012. Paul Agnew received his musical education with the Birmingham Cathedral choir and at the University of Oxford. As a soloist, Paul is regularly invited to festivals such as the Edinburgh festival, the BBC Proms and the Lufthansa Festival. He frequently sings with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Gabrieli Consort and Players. He appears with conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Ton Koopman, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe and Emmanuelle Haïm.

Enrico Onofri

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 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.

Alexis Kossenko

Alexis Kossenko is an all-round musician: flautist, conductor/ director, musicologist. His orchestral experience is particularly extensive: he has appeared in concert with major orchestras including La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Concerto Copenhagen, Ensemble Matheus, Capriccio Stravagante, Les Paladins, Le Concert Spirituel. His concert schedule takes him to prestigious concert halls as soloist and chamber musician in major festivals all over Europe. In 1997, his acclaimed interpretation of Quantz and Vivaldi concertos with EUBO (directors Ton Koopman and Roy Goodman) marked the beginning of his solo career. He has since been invited by numerous leading European ensembles as concerto soloist on both the modern and baroque flute as well as the recorder. His conducting career is flourishing, especially as guest of B’Rock (Belgium), Holland Baroque Society (Holland) and Arte dei Suonatori (Poland) with whom he has undertaken numerous highly acclaimed tours.

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.

Margaret Faultless

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 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

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

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

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.