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 4^th 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.