NeoBarock

Since their foundation in 2003, NeoBarock have gained an excellent reputation for their spellbinding interpretations and their unconventional programs, based on musicological research.
For NeoBarock, the choice of baroque instruments and knowledge of historical performance practice is not an end in itself, a staging of past events, nor do they produce museum pieces as a musical backdrop to contemporary life. Based on profound knowledge of the sources, on constant research, employing exactly the kind of instruments a piece was originally written for, these readings are a conscious effort to get as close to the composers’ intentions as possible. This is precisely how NeoBarock reveals the timelessness of the masterpieces and brings the music directly into the present.
NeoBarock is not limited to the music of the Baroque and Classical periods. Thanks to the outstanding abilities of its internationally renowned members, the ensemble also performs rarities from the 20th century in programs spanning different eras, allowing early and new music to merge in a richly evocative way.

Sensational rediscoveries, reconstructions of lost works and innovative perspectives on the standard literature turn the concerts into an experience: “It is rare to experience such a well-conceived, completely self-contained program” is how the Gießener Allgemeine summed up the uniqueness of the program concepts.
With its unmistakably intense sound, technical brilliance and musical expressiveness, as well as its rhetorical approach to music, NeoBarock is a regular guest on the stages of renowned concert halls and important festivals.

In recent years, the ensemble has made a name for itself with challenging and exciting youth programs to inspire children for baroque music.
In February 2024, the musical fairy tale Princess Fasola and the Muscle Animals was published in collaboration with Swiss author Jolanda Steiner in the format of a CD picture book, illustrated by Heribert Schulmeyer.
With SOMMER’S WORLD LITERATURE to go, NeoBarock is staging an entire opera by Rameau as a Playmobil performance. Starting in summer 2026, Handel’s opera Rodelinda will follow, commissioned by the international Handel Festival in Göttingen and Halle.

The numerous CD recordings, which have won awards including the Echo Klassik Prize, was expanded in April 2025 with the release of the audio psychogram Pallas Nordica (book and CD), which combines the biography of the legendary Queen Christina of Sweden with compositions dedicated to her.
In November 2025, Passacaille Records released NeoBarock’s latest CD Spiegelungen, on which early music enters into a dialogue with 20th-century music through juxtaposition. In 2026, cantatas by Biber and Pachelbel for scordatura violin will be released, featuring the young Australian soprano Carly Power. Additionally, a CD tracing the development of the viola as a solo instrument from its origins to the 20th century, performed on instruments appropriate to each era, is set for release.