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Capella Jenensis is one of Germany’s leading ensembles for historical performance practice and is noted for its conciseness, expressiveness, and interpretive sensitivity. With its clear com mitment to the original historical sound of the respective epoch, it delights audiences and tangibly approaches historical perfor mance practice from the Baroque period as well as the Renaissance and the Middle Ages to the Romantic period. Its ongoing intensive research work in music archives throughout Europe enables the ensemble to present a unique repertoire characterized by numerous rediscoveries of works worth hearing. With the research project “Sounds of Thuringian Residences”, the Capella Jenensis created a comprehensive portrait of Thuringian musical culture. With their numerous first recordings, the ensemble presents unheard works right where they were originally composed.
An important research focus of the investigative musicians is the editing and revival of works by Central German composers. The ensemble's first CD was released in 2020, which is dedicated to the first recording of secular cantatas from the Meiningen archive. With precision and liveliness, their CD recordings are also dedicated to the Central German repertoire of the Early and High Baroque.
The musicians of Capella Jenensis have their roots in the city on the Saale or live and work there. They have completed a degree in early music and play in well-known Baroque ensembles at home and abroad. The ensemble is an integral part of the Baroque musical culture of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt and plays numerous concerts every year at festivals and concert series and in collaboration with choirs in the performance of choral symphonic works. The ensemble has already enriched its hometown of Jena with a variety of innovatively designed concert projects, in which not only the special program selection, but also the diverse collaboration with special venues, dancers, students, choirs and other Jena social actors made a name for themselves.
As winner of the “Nachtklang” audience award of the Musik fest Erzgebirge 2020, Capella Jenensis has been performing at festivals and concert series throughout Europe since its inception in 2014, enriching the concert landscape with a variety of concert projects that are innovative and feature top-class performers and creative ideas. This is seen in the specific program selection and the diverse partnerships with unusual venues and key players in society. Since 2019, Capella Jenensis has been shaping the concert series “Barock trifft Moderne– Begegnungen zwischen Welten” (“Baroque Meets Modern– Encounters Between Worlds”), which explores new interpretive paths, for example, by combining Baroque music with jazz, hip-hop, and contemporary musical forms.
The ensemble receives support from the “Orchester unter neuen Herausforderungen” (“Orchestras Facing New Challenges”) program of the German Federal Ministry of Culture, Neustart Kultur, as well as by Germany-wide foundations such as the German Ehrenamtsstiftung, the Heidehofstiftung and the Johann Adolph Hasse Society, Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik and the Sparkassenkulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen |
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Daniela Döhler-Schottstädt (Baroque Viola), Direction, Organisation)
Gerd Amelung (Harpsichord, Musical Direction)
Claudia Mende (Baroque Violin)
Nadja Zwiener (Baroque Violin)
Andrea Schmidt (Baroque Violin)
Anne-Marei Holter (Baroque Viola)
Pia Scheibe (Transverse Flute)
Yvonne Krüger (Recorder)
Annegret Dudek (Recorder)
Johannes Holter (Baroque Oboe)
Gertrud Ohse (Viola da gamba, Baroque Violoncello)
Benjamin Wand (Baroque Double-bass, 8'-Violone)
Tillmann Steinhöfel (Viola da gamba, Violone) |
