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Christopher Hogwood

Founded in 1984, the Basel Chambre Orchestra (Kammerorchester Basel, KOB) is now one of the most soughtafter international chamber orchestras.The KOB has made the lively interpretation and skilful juxtaposition of Early Music and modern music to its trademark.The ensemble doesn’t have a principal conductor as such. Every member has an equal say on artistic decisions; but the KOB works together regularly with such well-known conductors as Christopher Hogwood, Giovanni Antonini, Paul Goodwin, Paul McCreesh and David Stern. The KOB has appeared at many international music festivals such as the Rheingau and Schwetzingen Festivals, the Munich “Tonikale”, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Folles Journées Nantes, Festa de Musica in Lisbon, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Istanbul Music Festival, the International Festival at Lake Constance, the “AnsBACHwoche”, the Handel Festival in Halle an der Saale, the Festival La Chaise- Dieu, and the Vienna “Klangbogen”). In the coming concert season, the KOB will appear in many of Europe’s leading music centres: Paris, London, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart, Zurich, Madrid, Valencia, Lisbon and Istanbul. In the 2005/06 season the orchestra is looking forward to working with such major artists as Cecilia Bartoli, Magdalena Kozena, Sol Gabetta, Patricia Kopatchinskaya, the Labèque sisters, Tabea Zimmermann, David Daniels, Felix Renggli, Andrew Manze and Giuliano Carmignola.

In 1999 the Basel Chamber Orchestra performed for the first time with his conductor Christopher Hogwood. This collaboration was so productive and stimulating for both parties that Christopher Hogwood was engaged as „Principal Guest Conductor“ for the following years.
Through the partnership with the BMG/Arte Nova-label a collaboration has been established which unites programmes with a thematic focus as well as an emphasis on contemporary classics. The first CD produced together in autumn 2001was a programme from 1947 in which the music-patron of Basel Paul Sacher and the then Basel Chamber Orchestra premiered works by Strawinsky, Martinu and Honegger. The second CD was released in September 2002 with unknown pieces by Britten and Strawinsky. The singer Emma Kirkby performs extracts of “Rakes progress” and Shakespear-songs by Strawinsky. The third CD presents neo classicism with an Italian background (Casella, Malipiero, Strawinsky). In September 2004 was released the new serial "Music for the theatre" contains works by Richard Strauss and Georges Bizet. In November 2005 comes the second CD with "American Theatre Music" by Copland and Barber.