Ensemble Wien-Berlin

In 1983, a small music festival in the south of Lower Saxony invited five first wind players from the Vienna and Berliner Philharmoniker to play chamber music together: This was the birth of the Vienna-Berlin Ensemble. The collaboration proved to be so harmonious that the musicians did not want to leave it at a one-off event. The Ensemble Wien-Berlin undertook its first major tour in the same year it was founded and quickly established its reputation as an internationally outstanding wind quintet. The ensemble performs in the world's most renowned concert halls and is represented at international festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Mozartwoche Salzburg, the Wiener Festwochen, the Lucerne Festival, the Ravenna Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival.