Partnerships

The early-music ensemble Tra Noi is known above all for its lively communication, among its members and with the audience: the "we" in the name is inclusive, embracing everyone present. Formed only in early 2023, it has already won the Konzerthaus Vienna Prize at the HIF-Biber Competition (2023), the Audience Award at the Biagio Marini Competition (2023) and at the Handel Competition Göttingen (2024), first prize at the Concours International de musique ancienne du Val de Loire (2024), third prize as a duo at the Van Wassenaer International Competition (2024), first prize and the Audience Award at the Orlando di Lasso Competition (2025), and the EUBO Award for "most promising ensemble" at the York Young Artist Competition. It has performed at venues including the Turin Chamber Music Festival, the Resonanzen festival at the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Telemann Society in Magdeburg, the Innsbruck Festival, the Cologne Philharmonic's FEL!X festival, and the Kaunas Philharmonic. Reviewed on Scherzo.ES.

Orpheus Ensemble Basel was founded in Basel in 2021 and, the following year, won the competition organised by the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci for young early-music performers.

The award-winning ensemble Rýnský brings together outstanding musicians from an exciting young generation dedicated to early music. Its focus is on rediscovering the repertoire of the Stylus Phantasticus from Czech, German and Austrian archives. Founded during joint studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, and praised for its virtuosity, musicality and creativity, the ensemble regularly performs at renowned festivals and stages. It has been honoured with the International Manhattan Music Award (USA, 2023), the Audience Award of the Biagio Marini Competition Neuburg (DE, 2021) and the DV Young Sounds Award (IT, 2022), and is supported by the European S-Eeemerging programme. Its debut CD, devoted to the world premiere recording of all twelve violin sonatas by Ignazio Albertini, will be released on the DaVinci Records label.

Founded in Rome in 2005 by Andrea De Carlo, Ensemble Mare Nostrum has established itself as one of the most distinctive voices on the European early-music scene. Their interpretative approach grows out of a deep exploration of the relationship between music, language, gesture and affect, restoring to baroque repertoire its full theatrical, physical and emotional dimension. Since 2012 the ensemble has focused on seventeenth-century Roman repertoire with The Stradella Project, a recording series devoted to the works of Alessandro Stradella: their most recent release, Un angelo del Paradiso (2024), received a nomination at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025. Bianca Cucini collaborates with Ensemble Mare Nostrum.

The Little Light Consort was founded in 2011 by viola da gamba player Soma Salat-Zakariás, with the aim of developing and bringing the historical and contemporary repertoire for viols to a wider audience. A shared musical understanding, gained through studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, provides a solid foundation for their interpretations. To refine the consort's performance practice, Salat-Zakariás, together with the Chest of Viols Association, initiated the building of a so-called "Chest of Viols": the six instruments, completed in March 2024, allow for an intense exploration of the repertoire and a seamless communication with the audience.