The five members of Ensemble Meridiana met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland where they specialised in Baroque music. In March 2007 they won the first prize and the audience prize in the 4th International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg, Germany. In July 2009, Ensemble Meridiana won the York International Young Artists Competition. Meridiana has enjoyed successful concerts in international festivals, such as Arolser Baroque Festival, Magdeburg Telemann Festival and in J.S. Bach’s house in Eisenach. In the summer of 2008, Ensemble Meridiana toured Romania as representatives of the Schola Cantorum. They also appeared on Romanian radio and television. After sell out concerts in Basel and the Musical Instrument Museum in Berlin in January 2009, the ensemble appeared in the Summer Concerts of the Bach Archive Leipzig 2009 . In 2010 they will record a CD for Linn Records and they have concerts planned throughout Europe. Aside from playing with Meridiana, the groups members enjoy busy freelance orchestral careers with ensembles such as Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Capriccio Basel, European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra. The musicians play on copies of original Baroque instruments. The combination of recorder or bassoon, oboe or recorder, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord offers a wide variety of instrument combinations. The ensemble covers a wide spectrum of Baroque repertoire and presents concerts of varied and well-researched programmes with many different colours.
