PASSIONATE CELLO
cello ensemble
For more than 15 years Julius Berger has formed an ensemble in which his best students participate. The ensemble is both an important aspect of artistic training and an attractive ensemble in concerts and festivals, radio and recordings. Cello Passionato is now directed by Hyun-Jung und Julius Berger, and has to its credit appearances at the Cello Festival Kronberg, the A-DEvantgarde Festival in Munich, the Asiagofestival, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Seoul and numerous other appearances in France, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Austria and, of course, at its home base Augsburg.
Cello Passionato has premiered compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina, Wolfgang Rihm, Wilhelm Killmayer, Frangiz Ali-Sade, Giovanni Bonato, Manuela Kerer, Eduard Putz, Markus Schmitt, and Oscar Strasnoy, who wrote original pieces for the ensemble. There are also numerous radio and recording collaborations with BR, HR, ORF, SBS (Korea), ARTE and numerous record labels.