Camerata RCO

Formed by members of Amsterdam's famed Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra  (RCO), Camerata RCO performs chamber music in multiple formations, with a  special focus on the repertoire for winds and strings, and active relationships  with living composers.It is an absolute love of chamber music that drives these musicians to divert  time out of their busy schedules, as members of one of the world's greatest  orchestras, to perform together as Camerata RCO. Praised by the New York  Times for their "warm, glowing performance," the ensemble has enjoyed  tremendous success in the Netherlands and abroad and now performs around  50 concerts a season internationally in music capitals such as Amsterdam,  Vienna, Tokyo, Seoul, Madrid, Rome and New York. Their ever-expanding  discography on Gutman Records includes recordings of works by Berlioz,  Brahms, Corelli, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Poulenc and Ravel. Raving  reviews have received the CD’s where Mahler Symphonies were recorded inchamber versions, respectively Symphony no. 9 under conductor Gustavo  Gimeno and Symphony no 4 under conductor Lucas Macias Navarro. The latest  CD-release includes La Mort de Cleopatre by Berlioz in a new chamber version,  especially arranged for the ensemble by Thomas Beijer. Thomas Beijer is also  the soloist in Poulen’s Aubade on this CD.Recent concert highlights include a critically acclaimed tour of South Korea; a  weeklong residency at the Festival Musika-Música in Bilbao, Spain; concerts in  both halls of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; a special benefit concert directed  by New York Philharmonic music director designate and former Concertgebouw  concertmaster Jaap Van Zweden and the Prinsengrachtconcert, broadcasted  worldwide live on TV.Camerata RCO is touring North America twice, every season. January 2020 will  bring them to Hawaii and in March 2020 Camerata RCO will be performing  Brahms Serenade no. 1 in nonet version in California and New York.The ensemble enjoys collaborations with many of their musical close friends  and has shared the stage with Janine Jansen, Pekka Kuusisto, Alice Sara Ott  and others. Future adventures of Camerata RCO will be joined by Behzod  Abduraimov, Christoph Koncz and Matthias Goerne with whom the ensemble  will perform newly arranged Schubert Lieder.