Freiburger Barockorchester

The Freiburger Barockorchester can look back on a success story lasting over twenty years and is a popular guest at some of the world's most important concert halls and opera houses. A glance at the ensemble’s concert calendar shows a diverse repertoire played at a variety of venues, ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary, and from Freiburg to the Far East.

The Freiburgers’ artistic credo, however, remains unchanged: creative curiosity with the intention of playing a composition in as lively and as expressive a manner as possible. “The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is a diamond of particular brilliance. In the technical and mental ‘mastery’ of the instruments and the individual parts one sees what ‘historical’ music-making is currently capable of. Vivid and pure, transparent and lucid, delicate in phrasing and articulation and without excessive pathetic pressure, one hears all the details and experiences the whole as a musical cosmos of overpowering richness. Open your ears, this is how music sounds!” (Salzburger Nachrichten)

Under the artistic directorship of its two concert-masters Gottfried von der Goltz and Cecilia Bernardini, and under the baton of selected guest conductors, the FBO presents about a hundred performances per year in a variety of formations from chamber to opera orchestra: a self-administrated ensemble with its own subscription concerts at Konzerthaus Freiburg, Liederhalle Stuttgart, and Philharmonie Berlin, as well as with tours all over the world.

Askonas Holt represents the Freiburger Barockorchester in the Nordic Countries.