Ensemble La Cantonnade
Biography Ensemble La Cantonnade
La Cantonnade
The musicians of the baroque music ensemble La Cantonnade met each other during their studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. What brought them together was their enthusiasm for chamber music, their interest in the research of the historical sound, and their wish to bring unknown repertoire from the late Baroque era onto the modern stage. The term "la cantonade" was used in earlier times to refer to the side of the theater which was reserved for the privileged audience, hence the French expression "parler à la cantonade" (to speak to the crowd).
The ensemble performs regularly in concert series such as the Kammerkonzerte Darmstadt, the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte, the Kronberger Kulturkreis, the Tage Alter Musik im Saarland (Tamis), the Kleine Kammermusik in Frankfurt, as well as performing for the Markgräfin Wilhelmine Gesellschaft e.V. in Schloss Birken in Bayreuth.
