For over 70 years at home in Salzburg and around the world: With its own concert series and as a resident ensemble of the Salzburg Festival and Mozart Week, CAMERATA helps shape the identity of Salzburg as a city of music. As Salzburg’s cultural ambassador, it is also a regular guest on the world’s major concert stages, including the Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Shanghai Concert Hall.
As one of the oldest and most tradition-rich chamber orchestras in the world, CAMERATA bridges past and future, remaining consistently innovative and forward-thinking. The orchestra—whose musicians currently come from more than 20 nations—is particularly known for its distinctive sound in Viennese Classicism, especially the music of Salzburg’s most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Under the leadership of its two concertmasters, Gregory Ahss and Giovanni Guzzo, as primi inter pares, the orchestra also explores Romantic works through a new chamber-orchestral transparency—from Mendelssohn to Schumann and Brahms, all the way to Bartók—and spans a repertoire from the Baroque to the 20th century and into contemporary music through commissions and world premieres. Today, CAMERATA is internationally renowned for its powerful, vibrant, and emotionally moving performances.
CAMERATA also maintains deep artistic partnerships with the French pianist Hélène Grimaud and the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen. In the 2025/26 season, CAMERATA will collaborate with artists including Julia Hagen, Julian Prégardien, Hayato Sumino, Alexander Sitkovetsky, François Leleux, Václav Luks, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Maxime Emelyanychev, Finnegan Downie Dear, Rudolf Buchbinder, Kian Soltani, Maria João Pires, and Fazıl Say.
