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The Neumeyer Consort was founded in 2007 by Barbara Mauch-Heinke (Baroque violin), Markus Stein (harpsichord) und Felix Koch (Baroque cello) with the aim of making the liveliness and versatility of Baroque music audible in various ways. Thus, the cast variety of the Neumeyer Consort ranges, depending on the concert program, from the large Baroque orchestra to a chamber music ensemble.
The ensemble was able to make a name for itself in a short time, is "Ensemble in Residence" of the Frankfurter Kaisersaalkonzerte and received, in addition to radio and television and CD productions, concert invitations u.a. to the Tagen Alter Musik im Saarland, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Magdeburger Telemann-Festtagen, Göttinger Händelfestspielen, Schwetzinger Festspielen des SWR, Rheingau Musikfestival, Alte Oper Frankfurt, South Africa (Cape Town, Stellenbosch) and the Norfolk Concerts to England.
In addition to the lively concert activities and co-operation with renowned specialists in the early music scene, such as Michael Hofstetter, Wolfgang Katschner, Andreas Scholl, Konrad Junghänel, Ton Koopman and Masaaki Suzuki, the Neumeyer Consort is also committed to a pedagogical mission: There is close co-operation with the Hochschule für Musik Mainz as part of the international master-classes "Singing Summer" and the excellence program "Barock vokal": The members of the Neumeyer Consort teach in project courses at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and also offer the Neumeyer Consort Scholarship Academy Excellence students a special support Concert and CD projects.
The complete recording of the six Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046-1051) by J.S. Bach under the direction of Felix Koch as well as a CD of previously unreleased chamber music by Giovanni Platti have been released by the label Christophorus. Recordings with Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater as well as famous choruses from George Frideric Handel's Messiah under the direction of Michael Hofstetter were published by Oehms Classics. A CD in co-operation with the SWR with orchestral overtures by Georg Philipp Telemann was released in May 2017. Live recordings of J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) and the Mass in B minor (BWV 232) were produced in co-operation with the Gutenberg-Kammerchor Mainz. |
