Bernhard Bär trumpet
Miriam Jorde Hompanera Baroque oboe
Valerie Colen Baroque oboe
Marc Bonastre Riu Taille d'hautbois
Giovanni Battista Graziadio Baroque bassoon
Philipp Lamprecht historical percussion
Program:
Jacques Paisible - Suite in C Dur
Arcangelo Corelli - Sonata a Quattro
Solist: Bernhard Bär
Georg Friedrich Händel - Suite in D HWV 341
für Trompete und Ensemble zusammengestellt von Wright (1733)
Solist: Bernhard Bär
Gottfried Finger - Suite in F-Dur
Henry Purcell - Suite Angloisse
La Petite Écurie is an oboe band consisting of five musicians playing histori- cal oboes, bassoon and percussion. Founded in 2018, this exquisite wind ensemble attracted the interest of audiences as well as concert promot- ers. Among them are the Bachfest Leipzig (DE), the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, the Stockholm Early Music Festival (SE), the Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk (AT), the Festival Urbino Musica An- tica (IT), Valletta Baroque Festival (MT), and more. Since 2022, La Petite Écurie’s recordings have been released under the Arcana label. Their debut album, The Queen’s Favou- rites: Music at the Court of Queen Anne Stuart, re- ceived five Diapasons. The International Double Reed Society wrote: “They play with beautiful tone, precise intonation, rhythmic vigor, and a wonderful sense of style.“
Bernhard Bär received his first trumpet lessons from his father at the age of eight. After attending music high school, he completed his trumpet studies at the Feldkirch Conservatory for Music with Lothar Hilbrand and at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Johann Gansch. From 1999 to 2003 he worked as principal trumpet with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, in the following years he was a lecturer of the Anton Bruckner University. Since 2014 - as a freelance musician - his focus of musical work lies on historical instruments and historically informed performance. The "Schwanthaler Trumpet Consort", which he co-founded, won the international Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Competition in 2011. The ensemble with eight natural trumpets and timpani performs at well-known baroque festivals and inspires audience with selected literature. In particular new discoveries for original instruments, such as Flatt trumpets or Keyed trumpets, from the Austrian National Library are attracting interest.
