Ensemble Antique is a recently started chamber ensemble playing baroque music on period instruments. The group consists of some of Swedens most prominent young musicians i the early music field, all connected to the Stockholm area where they have met before in many various musical constellations and projects. The first innitiatives to this ensemble where taken during the summer of 2008, when four of its members where part of the orchestra at the Fäviken Opera outside Åre.
 
The ensemble is, due to its constitution, a very flexible group able to play anything from instrumental solos and trio sonatas to larger chamber musical works and trumpet concertos. Eventhough the focus lay on sonatas and chamber music from late 17th and early 18th century for trumpet and strings, a genre maybe as unusual as it is pleasurably sounding, the ensemble plans to incorporate guesting singers or instrumentalists to further broaden the repertoire.
 
The string players of Ensemble Antique also play together as the Leopold Quartet, specializing in classical repertoire, also on period instruments and bows.
 
 
The members of Ensemble Antique:
 
 
Katarina Bengtson, violin, is working as a baroque violinist in Stockholm and London.  After graduating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm she moved to London to specialize in early music and baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music. She now regularly performs with ensembles and orchestras as The Sixteen, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The Avision Ensemble. She is also a member of chamber ensemble The Rare Theatricall, ensemble in residence at the Royal Academy, and founding member and co-leader of European baroque orchestra Harmony of Nations. In Sweden Katarina just launched Stockholms Bach-Akademi, a project planning to perform all J S Bach´s cantatas and she plays since some years in the Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra. She is also working with conductor Olof Boman as concert master of the Stockholm Baroque Band.
 
Lina Söderholtz, violin, studied modern violin with Anna Lindal at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and baroque violin at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague with Elisabeth Wallfisch, from where she graduated in 2006 with a Certificate of Music. Lina works as a freelance violinist and performs with, among others, the New Dutch Academy, Svenska Barockorkestern, Drottningholms Barockensemble, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Gävle Symphony Orchestra and Folkoperan in Stockholm.
 
Violist Karin Ancker has a degree in music from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as well as a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal College of Music in London, where she aso studied baroque viola with Jan Schlapp, Anette Isserlis and Micaela Comberti. After finishing her studies Karin has worked with most of Swedens symphony orchestras and started in 2009 her trial in the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. She has been a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra and Academie Baroque Européenne d’Ambronay and she regurarly performs with Drottningholms Barockensemble, Svenska Barockorkestern and Re:Baroque and others.
 
Eva Maria Thür studied modern cello in Stockholm and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and baroque cello at the Koniklijk Conservatorium in the Hague with professor Jaap ter Linden. Apart from her employment in the Nordic Chamber Orchestra in Sundsvall she works a freelance musician on both modern and baroque cello and has played with Drottningholms Barockensemble, Re:Baroque and Svenska Barockorkestern.
 
The trumpet player of the ensemble, Elias Svanberg is co-principal in the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, but also often engaged by many of Swedens baroque ensembles. He has also performed as a soloist and in chamber music within early music. Elias has worked with Svenska Barockorkestern, the Fäviken Opera Orchestra, baroque ensemble Tre Kronor among others, and played with Drottningholms Barockensemble at the premier performance of Sven-David Sandströms Magnificat in Stuttgart.
 
Benjamin Åberg, organ/harpsicord, has a diploma in church music from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and studied harpsicord and chamber music in Stockholm as well as at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. Early in his carreer he was a price winner in the prestigeous organ competition in Erfurt, which resulted in several solo recitals around Europe, including in St: Pauls cathedral, London. Since 2005 Benjamin works as an organist in Sundbyberg, Stockholm and leads the choir of the church. In addition to his deed as a church musician he is often sought for as a chamber musician and harpsicordist in many ensembles including Musica Vitae and Dtrottningholms Barockensemble.
Contact:

Elias Svanberg

+46 73 9685718

Vattenledningsvägen 37
S-126 34 Hägersten

Sweden

eliassvanberg@hotmail.com

www.ensembleantique.se

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