Passion, joy in performance, authenticity — these are the musical foundations of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (FBO). For more than three decades the FBO has been one of the world’s leading period-instrument orchestras, giving more than 100 concerts annually in Germany and abroad.
The orchestra was founded by a group of graduates from the Freiburg University of Music, with the aim of giving historically informed performances of music of the Baroque and Classical eras. International engagements quickly followed, and soon the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra became one of the most sought-after ensembles on the early music scene. Its success is documented today on more than 100 albums, some of them prize-winning.
Alongside its own subscription concert series in Freiburg, Stuttgart and Berlin, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra makes guest appearances at leading venues worldwide, including the Lincoln Center in New York, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Vienna Musikverein and the Philharmonie de Paris. The FBO is also a much-loved guest at international festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Gstaad Menuhin Festival.
The artistic directorship of the orchestra is in the hands of Cecilia Bernardini and Gottfried von der Goltz, who, in the spirit of historically informed performance practice, direct from the violin. For opera productions and symphonic works of the Romantic period, the orchestra works with renowned conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado, René Jacobs, Teodor Currentzis and Simon Rattle. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra also enjoys longstanding close musical partnerships with Kristian Bezuidenhout, Isabelle Faust, Dorothee Mields, Vox Luminis, the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.
