Chamber Orchestra of Europe

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Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Orchestra
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Short nameCOE
Founded1981 (1981)
Location London, United Kingdom
Website www.coeurope.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE), established in 1981, is an orchestra based in London. The orchestra comprises about 60 members from across Europe. The players pursue parallel careers as international soloists, members of chamber groups and as tutors and teachers of music. The orchestra receives substantial support from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Underwood Trust; [1] they have no single home resident hall and no appointed resident conductor. The orchestra is a registered charity under English law. [2]

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The idea for the COE came from musicians in the European Community Youth Orchestra, from members who were past the age limit for the ECYO and who wanted to continue working together in a chamber orchestra context. The founding members included the oboist Douglas Boyd, who served as the COE's principal oboist from 1981 to 2002. Over the years the COE has developed strong relationships with Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, together with Thomas Adès, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Emanuel Ax, Lisa Batiashvili, Joshua Bell, Paavo Berglund, Renaud Capuçon and Gautier Capuçon, Isabelle Faust, Janine Jansen, Vladimir Jurowski, Leonidas Kavakos, Radu Lupu, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sakari Oramo, Murray Perahia, Maria João Pires, Sir András Schiff and Rolando Villazon.

The COE performs regularly in the major cities of Europe, with occasional visits to the United States, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. The orchestra has strong links with the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Styriarte festival in Graz, the Lucerne Festival, as well as the Kölner Philharmonie in Cologne, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. From 2007 to 2013, the COE was appointed cultural Ambassador by the European Union in its culture programme. The COE created the COE Academy in 2009 in order to provide opportunities to gifted music students to study with COE musicians.

Recordings

The orchestra has made over 250 commercial recordings for all the major recording companies with various conductors, including Claudio Abbado, [3] Paavo Berglund, [4] Nikolaus Harnoncourt, [5] [6] and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The orchestra has won a number of prizes for its recordings, including three Gramophone Awards for the Record of the Year and two Grammys. The COE was the first orchestra to create its own label, COE Records, in association with ASV Records (now distributed by Sanctuary/Universal Music).

Honorary members

The orchestra has awarded honorary membership to selected special collaborators: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Alice Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, Sir András Schiff and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

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References

  1. ↑ Geoffrey Norris (27 April 2006). "The best chamber orchestra in the world". Telegraph. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
  2. ↑ "THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE, registered charity no. 283484". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  3. ↑ Andrew Clements (27 June 2003). "Schubert: Lieder, orchestrated by Berlioz, Offenbach, Liszt, Brahms, Reger, Webern and Britten: Von Otter/Quasthoff/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 December 2009.
  4. ↑ Andrew Clements (20 July 2001). "Chamber of wonders". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
  5. ↑ Andrew Clements (28 February 2003). "Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 -5: Aimard/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Harnoncourt". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
  6. ↑ Andrew Clements (19 November 2009). "Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Lemalu/Kabatu/Nwobilo/Forest/Arnold Schoenberg Choir/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Harnoncourt". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
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