Streicherakademie Bozen

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The Streicherakademie Bozen was founded in 1987 by the Südtiroler Musikverein under the artistic direction of Georg Egger. It consists mainly of musicians from South Tirol who have gained extensive chamber and orchestral music experience in important international ensembles and who are now passing the fruits of their experience on to younger players. The Streicherakademie generally plays without a conductor. Under Frieder Bernius, a number of members of the Streicherakademie have regularly played together with the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart and over the past several years an artistic partnership has developed between these two ensembles for works requiring a larger ensemble. In addition to its own annual concert series, the Streicherakademie is regularly invited to important festivals such as the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, the Gustav-Mahler-Wochen in Toblach and the Engadiner Festwochen. Soloists who have appeared with the ensemble include Sergio Azzolini, Juliane Banse, Eduard Brunner, Giuliano Carmignola, Mirijam Contzen, Ingeborg Danz, Christian Gerhaher, Dietrich Henschel, Heinz Holliger, Diethelm Jonas, Louis Lortie, Antonio Meneses, Johannes Moser, Sabine und Wolfgang Meyer, Birgit Remmert, Sibylla Rubens, Andràs Schiff, Thomas Quasthoff, Wen-Sinn Yang and Ruth Ziesak. The Streicherakademie’s extensive repertoire ranges from Bach, Handel and Zelenka by way of Schubert/Mahler (Der Tod und das Mädchen) and Mendelssohn to Britten, Bartók, Stravinsky, Schönberg, Schnebel and Stuppner. Hitherto it has made several CD recordings, featuring works of C. Ph. E. Bach, Boccherini, Mozart, Rossini, Schönberg, Strauss and Stuppner.