ENSEMBLE BASTION

Artistic Leader, Recorder Player

The award-winning early music Ensemble Bastion specializes in the 17th and 18th-century musical repertoire. Their name symbolizes their mission of preserving and exploring early music while paying homage to the celebrated composer and musical theorist Sebastian Virdung. Virdung's 1511 treatise, Musica getutscht, published in Basel, describes the instruments used by the ensemble: recorder, viola da gamba, lute, and keyboard instruments. This treatise has a symbolic connection to the ensemble, as Basel serves as their base.

Musicians Maruša Brezavšček, Martin Jantzen, Elias Conrad, and Mélanie Flores, all laureates of international competitions, met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a renowned institute for early music. In July 2024, Ensemble Bastion was awarded the EUBO Prize at the prestigious York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. The ensemble was recently selected for the renowned S-Eeemerging Programme 2026-27.

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CAPELLA HELVETICA

Dulcian and Recorder Player

Capella Helvetica is a historical wind ensemble modelled on Swiss town pipers of the Renaissance. With cornets, trombones, pommer, dulcian, recorders, vocals and much more, we play entertaining and audience-friendly music that is 500 years old. We read from original notation and improvise, diminish and arrange according to historical sources.

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