EUBO Artists

The artists we currently are working with include:

Roy Goodman

Music Director of EUBO since 1985, Roy Goodman has directed the Orchestra in some 44 tours, more than 250 concerts and on six CDs. He is also Principal Conductor of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg, Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Northern Opera in Umeå, and a regular guest conductor all over Europe. His discography includes over 100 CDs of repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Holst’s Planets. His work in the opera field has taken him recently to San Fransico and Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Drottningholm and London. In 2002 Roy was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music by the University of Hull, UK.

Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, after a long association with EUBO as harpsichord tutor and guest director, will take over from Roy Goodman as Music Director in November 2003. Highly regarded as soloist and chamber musician, Lars Ulrik Mortensen is becoming increasingly known as a conductor. He is currently the Artistic Director of Concerto Copenhagen, and appears regularly directing opera at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where his most recent success was Handel’s Giulio Cesare. 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 throughout the world.

Fabio Biondi

Fabio Biondi began his career playing with groups such as La Capella Real, Musica Antiqua Vienna, La Chapelle Royale and Les Musiciens du Louvre, before founding his own ensemble, Europa Galante, in 1990. With Europa Galante he has enjoyed massive success, particularly with his CD of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. As soloist and guest conductor Fabio Biondi works with many orchestras, including the Santa Cecilia in Rome, Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra, the Opera of Halle, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, New York Collegium, of which he is permanent conductor, Orchestre Nationale de Montpellier, and Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. He directs EUBO for the first time in 2002.

Reinhard Goebel

Reinhard Goebel and his ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln, founded in 1973, are known worldwide for 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'. Today, Goebel is once again able to conduct from the violin, holding the instrument with the right hand and the bow with the left.

Paul Goodwin

Paul Goodwin, for many years the foremost baroque oboist of his generation, is now firmly established as a conductor. His principal conducting posts are Associate Conductor of The Academy of Ancient Music and Principal Guest Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra. His interest in the theatre began with a staged version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, with producer Jonathan Miller, and has continued with regular opera productions for Opera North, Karlsruhe, Lisbon and Athens. Paul is keen to bring early instruments and contemporary music together and has commissioned a series of contemporary pieces for The Academy of Ancient Music, the first of which is by John Tavener, and the second by David Bedford.

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.

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.