Collegium Cartusianum

The period instrument ensemble Collegium Cartusianum, founded in 1988 as successor to the Barockorchester Koln, has a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Brahms. The ensemble’s participation in the complete recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s masses conducted by Peter Neumann earned it an outstanding reputation, subsequently confirmed by many concerts, radio broadcasts and CD recordings. As well as collaborating with the Kolner Kammerchor, the Collegium Cartusianum has also received international acclaim for its performances of J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suites as well as Mozart and Beethoven symphonies. With Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, Mendelssohn’s St. Paul and Elijah, and Dvo?ak’s Requiem the orchestra has extended its repertoire to include opera and romantic works. It has appeared at many leading festivals in Europe and Japan, recently at the Leipzig Bach Festival with a Handel-Bach program, with Handel’s Serenata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Krakow and Essen at the second “Fest fur Alte Musik” in Cologne in February 2012.