Capricornus Consort Basel
Biography Capricornus Consort Basel
Capricornus Consort Basel
Since its founding in 2006, the Capricornus Consort Basel has primarily dedicated itself to rare works of the Baroque and High Baroque periods that require soloists.
The principal violinist, founder, and artistic director, Peter Barczi, has gathered around him a group of musicians whose artistic connections often date back to friendships forged during their studies at the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the university for the research and dissemination of historical music.
The members of the Capricornus Consort Basel find their musical cohesion not least in their ongoing agreement regarding the demands placed on performers of early music. Thus, the path to the most exquisite harmony seems to lead, to a particular degree, through the shared expressive will of these independent musical personalities.
The Capricornus Consort Basel has been invited to perform at renowned festivals and has garnered particular attention from the international music press with its CD recordings.
Péter Barczi
Born in 1973 in Hungary, after graduating with a degree in modern violin, he studied Baroque violin in Budapest, Dresden, Trossingen, and Basel with Piroska Vitárius, Simon Standage, John Holloway, Anton Steck, and Chiara Banchini. He currently lives near Basel, Switzerland. For the past ten years, he has been a regular guest musician with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. He is also concertmaster of the Camerata Basel and a member of the Baroque orchestra La Cetra. He is the second violinist of the Almaviva String Quartet. In 2006, he founded his own baroque ensemble, the Capricornus Consort Basel, with which he has already recorded five CDs under the Christophorus label. The CD released in January 2014, featuring world premiere recordings of Christoph Graupner's soprano solo cantatas with soprano Miriam Feuersinger, received the Echo Klassik award in 2014 and was included in the German Record Critics' Award's list of best recordings.
