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Accademia Amsterdam is inspired by an Italian institution flourishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, where people gathered to make music and discuss wide-ranging subjects. Accademia Amsterdam follows this tradition in as much as the musicians work together to reach a clear interpretation of the music. The main aim of playing concerts is to give pleasure to the audience. This is achieved through the “Speaking Style”, which has its roots in Rhetoric. Use of Rhetoric opens up the colourful world of Affect, these days described as the world of feeling.
Accademia Amsterdam was founded in 1990 by oboist Onno Verschoor. It consists of musicians educated in the tradition of authentic performance practise, who regularly perform with the most famous European Baroque orchestras. The ensemble gives concerts in the Netherlands and abroad, and has recorded the successful CD “A Choice Collection of Dances”. Frequently, they set up special projects, working with chamber choirs and dance companies. Accademia Amsterdam was guest of honour at the 2006 festival in Solomeo, Italy. This Dutch-Italian resulted in a CD with chamber music of both sides from the Alps, which you can buy in the shop on this website.
Accademia Amsterdam searches for adventure by organising unique projects. Together with baroque dancer Dorothee Wortelboer, the ensemble organized a theatre show on a barge, performed in the famous Oerolfestival in the Netherlands. In 2013 Bach’s Goldberg Variations were played and sung(!) with chamber choir PA’dam. Accademia Amsterdam initiates a project, about Handel’s teacher F.W. Zachow, which includes the execution and recording of all his rarely performed cantatas. You can purchase the first CD with (Christmas) cantatas from this forgotten composer on this website.
You can regularly listen to Accademia Amsterdam in the great oratorios of Bach and Handel, collaborating with renowned conductors and choirs.