Ensemble Respiro
Biography Ensemble Respiro
Ensemble Respiro
presents early music in a new context. The programs are intended to inspire and ask questions. Emerging from Concerto Ludovico, which has been realizing concert projects with historical instruments and singers with music from the early Baroque period since 2009, the core of Respiro consists of cornetts and trombones. Collaboration with singers is an integral part of the work. Lute and organ, and other instruments if required, complete the ensemble.
The working method includes the use of historical instruments, careful study of sources, working with historical tuning tones and systems such as the mean-tone tuning and a willingness to experiment in the implementation.
The ensemble consists of musicians who have specialized in the music of the 17th century and who enthusiastically reinterpret early music.
Andreas Neuhaus
I grew up musically in a chamber choir with a focus on early music (Rainer Winkel), and then went to the University of Dortmund, where I studied school music and discovered my passion for music education. I then studied modern trombone at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (Prof. Fritz Marreck). Since 1998 I have been teaching trombone and trumpet at the Minden Music School.
I played with cornetts and baroque trombones for the first time in the summer course for early music in Salzburg. My particular fascination with early baroque music led me to study historical trombone with Charles Toet at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, and continued with Wim Becu at the Bremen University of the Arts, which I completed in 2014 with a Master's degree in early music.
As a baroque trombonist, I have been playing in Germany and Europe since 2009 with ensembles such as Weserrenaissance Bremen, Hannoverscher Hofkapelle and Göttinger Barockorchester and have been a guest with Oltremontano, Gli Angeli di Genève and the Capella Cracoviensis (Kraków). I am particularly interested in the inexhaustible chamber music of the early Baroque period, working with singers and choirs - and improvisation.
