Badinerie

Rahel Stoellger, recorder
studied at the College of Music in Münster and with Walter van Hauwe at the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam, where she passed her concert examination in 1990. She went on to study with Kees Boeke and Pedro Memelsdorff. She has performed in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Poland and Taiwan with her own Badinerie group and various other ensembles at venues such as the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Konzertsommer festival in Brunnenthal in 1996, the early music festivals in Cracow and Pszczyna, the Leipzig Bach Archive and Austrian Radio (ORF) in Vienna. She has recorded for radio and CD, notably on the label ORF-Edition Alte Musik. Rahel Stoellger has been teaching the recorder at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 1992.

William Dongois, cornett
first studied the trumpet at the conservatoires of Rheims and Paris and then the cornett with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he graduated in early music studies in 1992. Whilst still a student, he regularly performed with the most renowned early music ensembles, including Hespérion XX, Concerto Palatino, the Taverner Players, Concerto Vocale and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. He has taken part in numerous LP recordings and has performed at numerous early music festivals. Together with his ensemble Le Concert Brisé, William Dongois has made a series of CDs on the Carpe Diem label, with titles including La Barca d'Amore (Renaissance music for solo cornett and basso continuo), La Golferamma and Musique Transalpine - a double CD.

Christian Beuse, dulcian
studied at the Hanns Eisler College of Music in Berlin and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is a member of the Academy of Early Music in Berlin and of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, and works with ensembles like the Vienna Concentus Musicus, Musica Fiata, the Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik and The Bach Ensemble. In 1992 he established the Reichasche Quintet, a wind quintet performing on instruments from the early Romantic era. melancholly Concert tours and recordings have taken him to nearly all European countries and overseas. Christian Beuse teaches at the Vienna Conservatory and at the Trossingen College of Music.

Alexander Weimann, harpsichord
graduated in organ and church music studies at the Munich College of Music and took his master's degree in musicology, theatre arts and medieval Latin at Munich University, where he also lectured in the theory of music. In addition to his concert commitments in almost all European countries and the USA, he has been active in radio, TV and commercial recordings. Alexander Weimann is a member of ensembles like Capella Leopoldina, Circumflexus and Tragicomedia. He is much in demand by various chamber groups and as a continuo player, and is also well known as conductor and leader of his Carissimi Consort.

Karl-Ernst Schröder, lute
studied at the Aachen College of Music and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. Both as a soloist and as a member of early music ensembles, he is frequently involved in CD, radio and television recordings and regularly gives concerts in many European countries with ensembles like the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Basel Consort, Ensemble 415, I Musici Gelosi and Mala Punica, as well as with artists like René Jacobs, Andreas Scholl, Maria Christina Kiehr and Aurora and Enrico Gatti. He also performs on the lute together with guitarist Robert Barto. His further activities include giving master classes, publishing and lecturing at international congresses.

Artists

Rahel Stoellger - recorder
William Dongois - cornett
Christian Beus - dulcian
Alexander Weimann - harpsichord, organ
Karl-Ernst Schr�der - theorbo, baroque guitar