Symphony Concert II

At the center of the repertoire, in addition to the works of Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, is of course the work of our genius loci Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is above all the typical “Salzburg Mozart sound” that over the years has made CAMERATA an international ambassador and musical figurehead of the city of Salzburg.
Highlights in recent years have included appearances at the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, BBC Proms in London, Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Beijing Music Festival  and Carnegie Hall in New York. The CAMERATA has a close cooperation with the Wiener Konzerthaus and appears regularly in the Tonhalle Zurich, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern, the Prinzregententheater Munich as well as the Cologne Philharmonie and the Philharmonie de Paris.

Personalities like Géza Anda, Sándor Végh and Sir Roger Norrington have shaped the CAMERATA sound. Musicians such as Heinz Holliger, Alfred Brendel, Philippe Herreweghe, Franz Welser-Möst, Pinchas Zukerman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Teodor Currentzis, Matthias Goerne, Fazıl Say, Renaud Capuçon, Yuja Wang and Hélène Grimaud, among others, have been prominent partners of the CAMERATA in past years.

When Bernhard Paumgartner founded the orchestra in 1952, the artistic credo of each individual member was clear: making music on one’s own responsibility within the CAMERATA community. A maxim that the orchestra and its members live to this day. Long time mentors Bernhard Paumgartner and Sándor Végh shaped the world-famous sound of CAMERATA. After Végh’s death, Sir Roger Norrington, as chief conductor, had a lasting influence on the orchestra. Today Sir Roger is the Director Laureate of CAMERATA. His successors as artistic directors were Leonidas Kavakos and the French conductor Louis Langrée. Since 2016, the musicians at CAMERATA have taken artistic direction into their own hands.

Led by their concert master Gregory Ahss as “primus inter pares”, the musicians work together to interpret sound and its subtleties and the music behind the notes. In this way, even in the seventh decade of its existence, CAMERATA maintains a “joy of playing that is contagious” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). CAMERATA  concertizes regularly with its artistic partners Renaud Capuçon, François Leleux and Fazıl Say and guest conductors such as Andrew Manze, Lionel Bringuier and Ingo Metzmacher to collaborate with them this season.
Recordings of CDs and CDs by well-known labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, DECCA, Sony or Warner Classics – many of which have won important prizes – testify to the excellence and dedication to music of the CAMERATA musicians from more than 20 nations.

Already as a student he carried several prizes at music-competitions and in 1998 the First Prize at the „Gradus ad parnassum“ Austria, what led to numerous invitations as a soloist and chamber musician. From 1997 – 2009 he was Principal Horn Player of the Mozarteumorchestra Salzburg. Johannes Hinterholzer has appeared as a soloist with many distinguished symphony and chamber orchestras including the Mozarteumorchestra Salzburg, the Brucknerorchester Linz, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Collegium musicum Copenhagen/DK, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, performing works of Vivaldi, Telemann, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Saint-Saens, Strauss, Britten. In 2007 he gave his debut as a soloist with Mozarts KV 495 at the Salzburg Festival were he played Brittens Serenade for tenor horn and strings together with Ian Bostridge and the Camerata Salzburg in 2013. Since 2000 he followed invitations for concerts as a guest on the principal horn position of orchestras, such as Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Bavarian State Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the chamberorchestras of Munich, Basel and Vienna, the Radio- Symphonieorchester des SWR Stuttgart, etc.
One of Johannes Hinterholzers special subjects is playing on ancient instruments: baroquehorn and handhorn. Besides many recital programms he performes with Concentus musicus under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble under Marc Minkowski and many other international baroque and classical ensembles. Apart from his work with orchestra Johannes Hinterholzer performes regurlarly as a chamber musician and took part at several international chamber music festivals, such as St. Gallen Festival, Festival con anima, Hakuba International Music Festival Japan, together with Daniel Gaede, Lukas Hagen, Veronika Hagen, Erich Höbart, Dag Jensen, the Kuss Quartet, Francois Leleux, Andrea Lieberknecht, Benjamin Schmid and many others.
In 2006 a Complete-Recording of Mozarts hornconcertos with Johannes Hinterholzer, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Ivor Bolton was released by the german Label Oehms Classics and has been highly acclaimed
in the international press.
2000 – 2010 he was teaching horn at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz and since 2008 he is Professor for horn at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.