In this concert, young and adult ensembles from the Aachen Municipal Music School and guests present the results of their intensive engagement with early music as part of the festival workshop. Under the expert guidance of their teachers and through intensive coaching by Ulrike Schaar (cello) and Martin Sandhoff (traverso and recorder), they have prepared solo and trio sonatas as well as larger ensemble works.
At “Let’s go baroque!”, the audience can experience baroque articulation and ornamentation, historically informed continuo playing, and transparent ensemble performance.
We are delighted about the cooperation with the Toni Jansen Foundation and the Sozialwerk Aachener Christen. Admission to this concert is free. Donations are welcome.
The church is accessible via guest house entrance.
Registration via e-mail is required:
Already during her studies, Ulrike Schaar began her concert career as a baroque cellist, performing both in Germany and abroad with renowned European ensembles specialising in historically informed performance. A particularly close and enduring artistic collaboration connects her with Concerto Köln. Concert tours with these ensembles have taken her across Europe’s major music festivals and concert halls, as well as to the United States, Japan, Korea, and South America. Her extensive discography – including numerous award-winning CD and DVD recordings, as well as radio broadcasts – bears witness to this rich concert activity.
Martin Sandhoff, born in 1960, was founding member, 30 years principal flute and, from 2005 to 2015, Artistic Director of Concerto Köln. From 2012 to 2022, he was active with Teodor Currentzis and his orchestra musicAeterna in Perm and St. Petersburg, serving as principal flutist, curator, and conductor. Far more than 100 Cd recordings produced by all top labels are a testament to his work, lots of them got prizes like Echo, Grammy or Midem.
The concert will be entertainingly hosted by Martin Hoffmann, a violist in the Aachen Symphony Orchestra. He is also involved with “Akzent Barock!” and plays the viola in the Chapelle Quartet. His engaging presentations of string quartet concerts always bring a smile to the audience’s faces.
