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. 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.

Various pro­grammes have been broad­cast by mdr figaro, bbc 3, ra­dio and tv ro­mania. In 2010 they re­cor­ded a CD for Linn Records and have con­certs planned through­out Europe.

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 big 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 sound col­ours.