Only few of today’s early music ensembles display a level of artistic mastery akin to that of the Berliner Barock Solisten, founded in 1995 by Rainer Kussmaul, Raimar Orlovsky and other prominent members of the Berlin Philharmonic. These musicians have joined their talents in creating a unique approach to the musical works of the 1600’s and 1700’s.

The Berlin Baroque Soloists not only do their name justice, since each one of them is a true bravura player. They also play on old but modernized instruments, using bows from different periods (depending on the work they are performing). Such flexibility, along with the ensemble’s exceptional homogeneity and the presence of leading early music soloists within its ranks, have contributed towards establishing this group’s leading position on the international scene. Their stylistic assuredness permits them to transfer compositions from ages long past into our day and age, without damaging the historical veneer that covers them, nor ignoring the historical period in which they were written. Old sounds are thus heard with fresh ears – resulting in an interpretation that can be regarded as modern, yet certainly not ›modernistic‹.

Consistently applied over the last twenty-six years, this unique approach to performance has led to a stupendous degree of recognition and approval on the part of audiences and critics alike. On concert podiums from Tokyo or Seoul to Berlin, from London to New York, from Paris to Shanghai or Taipei as well as in a number of smaller towns – everywhere the Berliner Barock Solisten perform, they have left an indelible musical mark, ensuring that the ranks of their true fans are continually enlarged.

Their programmes are documented on numerous CD recordings whose exceptional quality has been widely acknowledged by music critics. Thus, the Berliner Barock Solisten were awarded a Grammy for their 2005 release of Bach cantatas, along with the German recording industry’s Opus Classic Prize for two successive CD’s featuring solo concertos by Telemann and in 2018 for their recording of the Brandenburg Concertos lead by Maestro Reinhard Goebel who holds the title of Artistic Director.

Such success can also be attributed to the outstanding artists who performed with the ensemble: singers such as Thomas Quasthoff, Christine Schäfer, or Anne Sofie von Otter, wind soloists of the likes of Emmanuel Pahud, Albrecht Mayer, Michala Petri and Reinhold Friedrich, violinists such as Frank Peter Zimmermann, Daishin Kashimoto, and Daniel Hope as well as harpsichordists like Andreas Staier or Kristjan Bezuidenhout and pianist Igor Levit.