ENSEMBLE BASTION

The award-winning early music Ensemble Bastion specializes in the 17th and 18th-century musical repertoire. Their name symbolizes their mission of preserving and exploring early music while paying homage to the celebrated composer and musical theorist Sebastian Virdung. Virdung's 1511 treatise, Musica getutscht, published in Basel, describes the instruments used by the ensemble: recorder, viola da gamba, lute, and keyboard instruments. This treatise has a symbolic connection to the ensemble, as Basel serves as their base.

Musicians Maruša Brezavšček, Martin Jantzen, Elias Conrad, and Mélanie Flores, all laureates of international competitions, met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a renowned institute for early music. In July 2024, Ensemble Bastion was awarded the EUBO Prize at the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition.

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ENSEMBLE PAMPINEA

Ensemble Pampinea, an award-winning early music ensemble, specialises in delivering historically-inspired concert programmes of Medieval and Renaissance music that connect music, literature and art and encourage engagement from audience with all ages.

The musicians of Ensemble Pampinea met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Here they had the opportunity to explore the extensive repertoire of medieval music and to learn about the possibilities of a colourful arrangement through the use of various historical instruments. The trio plays recorder, fiddle, pipe and tabor, double recorder as well as organetto. In September 2022, Ensemble Pampinea won First Prize in the LIFEM (London International Festival for Early Music) competition for young ensembles and was invited to present a concert there in November 2023.

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